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| John Lennon's friend Pete Shotton came up with the "Hey"s in the chorus. |
| The line "feeling 2 foot small" was written "feeling 2 foot tall." Lennon sang it wrong but liked it and left it that way. |
| Lennon: "That's me in my Dylan period." |
| Session musicians played flutes. It was the first time outsiders played on a Beatles record. |
| It was rumored that this was the first gay rock song, a message to Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who was gay. |
| Covered by Joe Cocker in 1991 on his album Night Calls. Cocker previously covered The Beatles "I'll Cry Instead," "With A Little Help From My Friends," and "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window." |