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Across The Universe

"Across the Universe"
Song by the Beatles from the album No One's Gonna Change Our World
Released 12 December 1969
Recorded 4 February 1968, EMI Studios, London
Genre Psychedelic folk
Length 3:50
Label Regal Starline
Writer(s) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin
No One's Gonna Change Our World track listing
"Across the Universe"
(1)
Cilla Black – "What the World Needs Now Is Love"
(2)
"Across the Universe"
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1996 US jukebox single of the song, backed with "Two of Us"
Song by the Beatles from the album Let It Be
Published Northern Songs Ltd.
Released 8 May 1970
Recorded 4 February 1968, Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Genre Psychedelic folk
Length 3:47
Label Apple
Writer(s) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s) Phil Spector

"Across the Universe" is a song recorded by the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song first appeared on the various artists' charity compilation album No One's Gonna Change Our World in December 1969, and later, in different form, on Let It Be, the group's final released album.

One night in 1967, the phrase "words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup" came to Lennon after hearing his then-wife Cynthia, according to Lennon, "going on and on about something". Later, after "she'd gone to sleep – and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream", Lennon went downstairs and turned it into a song. He began to write the rest of the lyrics and when he was done, he went to bed and forgot about them.

I was lying next to my first wife in bed, you know, and I was irritated, and I was thinking. She must have been going on and on about something and she'd gone to sleep and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream. I went downstairs and it turned into a sort of cosmic song rather than an irritated song, rather than a "Why are you always mouthing off at me?" [The words] were purely inspirational and were given to me as boom! I don't own it you know; it came through like that.

The flavour of the song was heavily influenced by Lennon's and the Beatles' interest in Transcendental Meditation in late 1967 – early 1968, when the song was composed. Based on this, he added the mantra "Jai guru deva om" (Sanskrit: जय गुरुदेव ) to the piece, which became the link to the chorus. The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness" and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher, "All glory to Guru Dev".


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