How The Beatles Made 'Your Mother Should Know' | The Magical Mystery Tour Sessions

Everything you need to know about The Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know." |

While most writers or commentators are eager to dismiss “Your Mother Should Know” as just another campy nostalgic trip to a bygone era that Paul liked to indulge in, upon inspection we can see that, in this instance, The Beatles watered down the instrumentation (no clarinets as in “When I’m Sixty-Four”) and added some unprecedented structuring (the half-tempo instrumental bridge is uncharacteristic to music of that era) to create a sing-a-long song that fits well into the group’s catalog. One could even say that it resembles “With A Little Help From My Friends” to a greater degree than it does Paul’s throw-back compositions, such as “Honey Pie.”

Paul reveals, 🗣️ "I’ve always hated generation gaps. I always feel sorry for a parent or a child who doesn’t understand each other, and many of our fans would have been beginning to think that their parents were just a bunch of old fuddy-duddies who had no idea about anything. So I was advocating peace between the generations. In Your Mother Should Know, I was basically trying to say your mother might know more than you think she does. Give her credit."

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[michaelparks]

Wait just a gosh darned second....are you telling me the Beatles smoked weed ????

[kevincrawford]

As usual - or as always - a perfect track. But no one knows (till now!) how much work actually went into this seemingly-simple song! The Beatles - probably more than any other band, I'm guessing - would do many, many takes on what even sounds like a simple song in order to get what they wanted.. That was a very large part of their brilliance, work ethic, and attention to detail - that they would spend the time to do SO many takes in order to perfect what eventually sounds like such a "simple" song.

[BeatlesBible]

Sorry, guys. I had to re-upload the video because there was a mistake. Enjoy the video!

[jessekellerthecollectingne]

I thought it was written as the world's classiest "your mom" joke

[tomrobinson]

Please do a video on the making of It’s All Too Much. Such a landmark track, but little info out there on how it was constructed and recorded. 😉

[TwiggyArmstrong]

I never thought I’d hear the words skibidi toilet in a Beatles video

[Billyshears]

Bro you have no idea how much I look forward to you releasing a new video thanks so much for doing what you do

[unistudiosclassicmonsters]

Such an underrated track. This song SERIOUSLY needs more attention 😭

[GenialHarryGrout]

A lot of thought went into Your Mother Should Know. The way it's switches between right and left channels on the mono version between the first and second verse before using both channels for the last verse was something new, at least for the Beatles

[joeybonin]

There's no shame in writing a hit song. Money makes the wheels go 'round, and they make people happy.

[davidjordan]

I've always loved this song, but it also seems like it's missing something important, which prevents it from being truly great. The melody's fantastic, it has a wonderful middle eight, and the arrangement is very good as well. But I think it suffers greatly from only having one verse (technically two, but the second is so microscopically different from the first that it doesn't really count, and the da da da da's certainly don't count). The verse section goes by three times, so we really should have gotten three verses. Paul was very articulate in that interview explaining what the song was trying to do. So why didn't he give us more verses to fill it out? I also think he repeats the title phrase too much at the end. Again, I think if he'd changed the words up a little it could have helped a lot. This seems like a song that John could have really helped him with. I have similar feelings about Hello Goodbye.

P.S. You say that this was written during the hiatus after the All You Need Is Love performance, but then you say that Paul had wanted Your Mother Should Know for that. Both can't be true. I think it's really that Paul proposed YMSK as a single, but the band went with I Am the Walrus instead.

[georgeorr]

The keyboard break is haunting on this track.

[marguskiis]

YMSK sounds very 80s. So, the retro song is futuristic same time.

[ellenbeckmann]

This Beatles Song was like the First Musical, like they are singing and dancing with the white closses.😍
Thank you from Elli ✌❤

[hudahekizzy]

I love the tune. I always include it in my underrated lists...

[primitiverock]

I love this song. ❤️ I hate that John made fun calling them Granny Songs, When John Himself can make a good Granny Song (Goodnight). How about I'm your Angel on Double Fantasy? You think that Yoko produced That?? John could do it too, but protected his Rock N Roll image . Shame. Great 1920s Guitar licks on Honey Pie. Yeh John, you could do Good Granny Songs too!!

[toddkurzbard]

I have ALWAYS loved the "video" of this song from the end of the "Magical Mystery Tour" film. Just seeing John go back to his clean-shaven, no glasses Beatlemania look for a short moment, while goofing around John-style, makes me smile a big smile.

[azloii]

Damn this song has a deeper meaning than I would've ever thought. A+ Paul

[ricksalt]

Such a great tune, puts me in an enjoyable headspace . Thanks for the vid👌

[RPaulfield]

Gus did you make the entire Beatles Bible website yourself?