Help! album artwork Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 18 February 1965
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

Released: six Baronial 1965 (UK), 13 August 1965 (The states)

Bachelor on:
Help!
Anthology two

Personnel

John Lennon: vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: bass guitar, maracas
George Harrison: audio-visual guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine
Johnnie Scott: tenor flute, alto flute

One of the highlights of The Beatles' Help! album, 'Y'all've Got To Hide Your Love Abroad' was likewise the first of their songs since 1962 to characteristic a session musician.

The song also demonstrates the increasing influence of Bob Dylan upon John Lennon's songwriting in 1965. Interestingly, The Beatles were beginning to tape with acoustic instruments at the same fourth dimension that Dylan was picking up an electrical guitar.

That'southward me in my Dylan catamenia again. I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever is going on. If Elvis can do information technology, I can practice it. If the Everly Brothers tin can do it, me and Paul tin. Same with Dylan.

John Lennon
All Nosotros Are Proverb, David Sheff

Like the title track of the Aid! album, 'Y'all've Got To Hide Your Dear Away' was a chance for Lennon to lay blank his emotions in vocal.

'You've Got To Hibernate Your Dearest Away' is my Dylan menstruum. It's one of those that you sing a flake sadly to yourself, 'Here I stand, head in hand…' I'd started thinking about my own emotions. I don't know when exactly it started, like 'I'm A Loser' or 'Hide Your Beloved Away', those kind of things. Instead of projecting myself into a situation, I would try to express what I felt about myself, which I'd done in my books. I think it was Dylan who helped me realise that – not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his piece of work.

John Lennon
Anthology

The opening lines of The Beatles' song deport a resemblance to 'I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Have Never Met)', which appeared on Dylan'due south 1964 album Another Side Of Bob Dylan.

Here I stand, head in hands
Turn my face up to the wall
If she's gone I can't go along
Feeling ii foot small

'You've Got To Hibernate Your Love Away'
The Beatles

I tin't understand, she let go of my hand
And left me here facing the wall
I'd certain like to know why she did go
But I tin't get close to her at all

'I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like Nosotros Accept Never Met)'
Bob Dylan

During the recording Lennon mistakenly sang 'ii foot minor' instead of 'two human foot tall'. "Let's leave that in, actually," he told his babyhood friend Pete Shotton. "All those pseuds volition really dear it."

Information technology has been suggested that the song was written for The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein, who was a homosexual. Lennon and Epstein went on holiday to Barcelona, Spain together in April 1963; upon their render rumours began to spread in Liverpool that the pair had shared a sexual experience.

Although this was always denied by the pair, The Beatles' biographer Hunter Davies later claimed that Lennon did acknowledge to him, off the record, that an come across took place in Spain. "John wasn't a homosexual but he was daft enough to try anything once," Davies wrote in The Beatles, Football And Me, his 2006 autobiography.

Whether the song relates to the incident, or fifty-fifty to Epstein, is debatable. Information technology has also been claimed that 'Yous've Got To Hide Your Beloved Away' was about an thing with a woman that Lennon was having at the time.

George Martin's session notes for You've Got To Hide Your Love Away and If You've Got Trouble, 18 February 1965

In the studio

'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away' was recorded in the afternoon of 18 Feb 1965. The Beatles taped ix takes, simply two of which were complete.

Anthology ii featured take five, the simply other full version recorded. It too incorporated a count-in from the aborted have one, and John Lennon proverb that Paul McCartney had broken a glass in the studio.

Take nine was the Help! album version. Track one independent Lennon on 12-string acoustic guitar, George Harrison on a Spanish acoustic guitar, Paul McCartney on bass guitar, and Ringo Starr playing drums with brushes.

Runway two was an overdub of Lennon's vocals. The third runway had more 12-cord acoustic guitar, this time played by Harrison, maracas played by McCartney, and tambourine by Starr.

'Y'all've Got To Hide Your Love Away' was the first Beatles song since 'Honey Me Practice' to feature an outside musician. Johnnie Scott, a flautist and musical arranger, first recorded a tenor flute as The Beatles taped their parts. He then overdubbed an alto flute office to complete the song.

They told me roughly what they wanted, ¾ time, and the all-time way of fulfilling their needs was to play both tenor flute and alto flute, the second as an overdub. Equally I call up, all four of them were there and Ringo was full of marital joys; he'd but come back from his honeymoon.

Johnnie Scott
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn

Co-ordinate to George Martin's session notes, the alto flute was overdubbed on rails 4. Information technology is unclear on which track the tenor flute was recorded.