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The next track, What's The New Mary Jane, was conceived during the White Album sessions, but in the end Revolution 9 beat it out to end up on the finished LP. Following this is a track called Bison by an artist called The Fireman, from the album Rushes, an album of experimental electronic sounds and ambient songs. The Fireman is a pseudonym of Paul McCartney's, and the album title Rushes is a nod to the lyrics of Beatles classic Penny Lane - "...and the fireman rushes in..."
The next song, Check My Machine, is a bonus track from McCartney's 1980 album McCartney II, followed by You Never Give Me Your Money from The Beatles' Abbey Road. Not Guilty is a George Harrison song originally intended for inclusion on the White Album, but in the end it surfaced on George's 1979 solo album George Harrison.
We end Session 1 on a good old rocker - Paul wrote Helter Skelter in response to an interview with Pete Townshend where he described The Who's latest single, I Can See for Miles as the loudest, rawest, dirtiest song The Who had ever recorded. After recording the eighteenth take of Helter Skelter, Ringo Starr flung his sticks across the studio and screamed, "I've got blisters on my fingers!"
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