Octopus's Garden
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| "Octopus's Garden" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| From the album Abbey Road | ||
| Album released | September 26 1969 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Song Length | 02:51 | |
| Record label | Apple Records | |
| Producer | George Martin | |
| Abbey Road Album Listing | ||
| Oh! Darling (Track 4) | Octopus's Garden (Track 5) | I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Track 6) |
"Octopus's Garden" is a song written by Ringo Starr with some help from George Harrison, although it is credited solely to Starr. It is featured on the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road.
The idea for the song came about when Ringo was on a boating trip with his family in Sardinia in 1968. The boat's captain offered him an octopus lunch, but he turned it down. It was then that the captain began to tell him everything he knew about octopuses, and how they travel along the sea bed looking for shiny objects and stones with which to build gardens. Ringo once said that hearing about octopuses spending their days collecting shiny objects at the bottom of the sea was one of the happiest things he'd heard of. Wanting to write a song on it, Ringo decided to write this song.
It is sometimes seen as being a song for children, like "Yellow Submarine" or "Rocky Raccoon," though the latter is also seen as a profound piece on redemption. Starr also wrote The Beatles' song "Don't Pass Me By", which can be heard on The Beatles' self-titled album, also known as the White Album.
| The Beatles |
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| John Lennon | Paul McCartney | George Harrison | Ringo Starr Pete Best | Stuart Sutcliffe |
| Management |
| Brian Epstein | Allen Klein | Apple Records |
| Production |
| George Martin | Geoff Emerick | Norman Smith | Phil Spector | Abbey Road Studios |
| Official studio albums |
| Please Please Me (1963) | With the Beatles (1963) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Beatles for Sale (1964) | Help! (1965) | Rubber Soul (1965) | Revolver (1966) | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | The Beatles (1968) | Yellow Submarine (1969) | Abbey Road (1969) | Let It Be (1970) |
| A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Yellow Submarine (1968) | Let it Be (1970) |
| History | Lennon-McCartney | Bootlegs | Discography | Anthology | Influence | The Quarrymen | London | Beatlemania | Beatlesque | Fifth Beatle | Paul Is Dead | British Invasion | Apple Corps | Northern Songs | Harrisongs | Startling Music |
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