The Beatles - Birthday
The Beatles - Birthday
The Beatles - Birthday 1968
"Birthday" is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited Lennon/McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on their double album The Beatles (commonly known as The White Album). It is the opening track on the third side of the LP (or the second disc in CD versions of the record). The song is an example of The Beatles' return to more traditional rock and roll form, although their music had increased in complexity and it had developed more of its own characteristic style by this point. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed it for Starr's 70th birthday on July 7, 2010.
The song was largely written during a recording session at the EMI Abbey Road Studios on 18 September 1968 with McCartney coming up with the main riff and most of the lyrics, and Lennon filling in the gaps.[2] During the session, the Beatles and the recording crew made a short trip around the corner to McCartney's house to watch the 1956 rock & roll movie The Girl Can't
