More orchestral stuff than we’d ever used before, so it was more of a production. The sun will come out Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow Therell be sun Just thinking about Tomorrow Clears away the cobwebs, And the sorrow Til theres none When Im stuck in a day Thats gray, And lonely, I just stick out my chin And Grin, And Say, Oh The sun will come out Tomorrow So ya gotta hang on Til tomorrow Come what. Pepper we had more instrumentation than we’d ever had. When Macarthur commented that he had been expecting another step from Sgt Pepper, Paul replied: “Well it is another step, you know, but it’s not necessarily in the way people expected. Two days before “The White Album”’s release, Paul spoke to Radio Luxembourg’s Tony Macarthur at his Cavendish Avenue home.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and “The White Album” is in the relative restraint shown when it came to the orchestral arrangements on the latter – and Paul’s “Blackbird” is the perfect illustration of this. Originally conceived to honor artists and track sound recording sales, Gold & Platinum Awards have come to stand as a benchmark of success for any artistwhether they’ve just released their first song or Greatest Hits album. “Those were the days of the civil rights movement, which all of us cared passionately about,” Paul said, “so this was really a song from me to a black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith, there is hope.’ As is often the case with my things, a veiling took place so, rather than say, ‘Black woman living in Little Rock,’ and be very specific, she became a bird, became symbolic, so you could apply it to your particular problem.” The stripped-back production RIAA’s historic Gold® & Platinum® Program defines success in the recorded music industry. “Blackbird,” like John Lennon’s “Revolution” and George’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” was written in response to the seeming chaos of what would come to be remembered as a year of demonstration, death, and despair. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, in Memphis, in April 1968, brought the ongoing civil-rights movement to a head.