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While Liverpool holds a totemic presence in Fab Four lore, Los Angeles<\/a> glows with an Emerald City allure during the peaks of Beatlemania.<\/p>\n Naturally, it\u2019s their hometown\u2019s suburban features and streets that form essential alleys and landmarks among the John Lennon and Paul McCartney songbook<\/a>. The Strawberry Field Salvation Army\u2019s surrealist retreat, \u2018Penny Lane\u2019s kaleidoscopic eccentricity, or the cartoonishly accentuated Scouse vocals that scrub on Abbey Road\u2019s \u2018Polythene Pam\u2019, The Beatles\u2019 Merseyside foundations were never far away from their acclaimed songwriting pen.<\/p>\n But the US of A was a pop-cultural Elysium during The Beatles\u2019 teen years. Long before the British invasion and the UK\u2019s confident stature on the global music stage, the 1950s Boomer generation all looked across the Atlantic for their Technicolor escape from the final vestiges of post-war austerity and grey suburbia. Hollywood glamour, youth culture, and an economic boom far removed from the material reality of Brit kids all were tantalisingly scored by the exciting sounds of soul, R&B, and most importantly, rock and roll.<\/p>\n The capital of the Western world\u2019s entertainment, LA would pull The Beatles into its sunny orbit. Mammoth shows at the Hollywood Bowl, luxury retreats in Benedict Canyon, and a deal with the city\u2019s Capitol Records<\/a> for Stateside distribution would all establish a lifelong connection to the City of Angels, many of The Beatles maintaining a semi-residence long into their solo years.<\/p>\n Then the counterculture happened. With San Francisco\u2019s Haight-Ashbury bloom flowering across the US West Coast, the era\u2019s psychedelic explosion set the stage for LA to once again lend a hand in shaping one of The Beatles\u2019 most memorable gems.<\/p>\n So, which LA street inspired a Beatles song?<\/p>\n While Lennon takes the lion\u2019s share of The Beatles\u2019 lysergic cuts, George Harrison comes a close second. His far-out efforts shifted aside for 1969\u2019s Yellow Submarine soundtrack, the trippy \u2018Only a Northern Song\u2019 and chromatic \u2018It\u2019s All Too Much\u2019 were already in the can, cut during the Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions and standing as one of the band\u2019s most underrated numbers.<\/p>\n Harrison would immerse himself deeper into the acid pool of psychedelic meditation for \u2018Blue Jay Way\u2019, however. Scored by a mix of his fascination with Eastern scales and the sonic possibilities of the studio, a chance encounter with a Hammond organ during a jetlagged wait for band publicist Derek Taylor would spark the basic sketches of Magical Mystery Tour<\/a>\u2019s eerie track.<\/p>\n With an evocative fog descending across the Hollywood Hills West overlooking the Sunset Strip, the hours passed in their rented accommodation at 1567 Blue Jay Way yielded more and more time for Harrison to dream up his misty meditation, part bored in-joke and cerebral wander that could only have come from Harrison\u2019s distinct approach to songcraft.<\/p>\n Even nearly 60 years later, \u2018Blue Jay Way\u2019 lies buried in The Beatles\u2019 canon with undimmed mystical intrigue, forming an alternative soundtrack to the LA songbook that swaps its glitzy radiance for a spooky energy lurking among the city\u2019s strange and unique landscape.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Far Out Beatles Newsletter<\/p>\n All the latest stories about The Beatles from the independent voice of culture.
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