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((Short description|1967 instrumental by the Beatles))
 
((Use British English|date=June 2011))
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((More citations needed|date=November 2009))
((Infobox song
| name     = Flying
| cover    = Flying beatles.jpg
| cover_size = 160
| caption  = Cover of the song's sheet music
| alt      =
| type     = [[Instrumental]]
| artist   = [[The Beatles]]
| EP         = ''and album'' [[Magical Mystery Tour]]
| released   = 
*27 November 1967 <small>(US) ([[Gramophone record|LP]])</small> 
*8 December 1967 <small>(UK) ([[Extended play|EP]])</small>
| format   =
| recorded = 8 & 28 September 1967
| studio   = [[Abbey Road Studios|EMI]], London
| venue    =
| genre    = ((hlist|[[Instrumental rock]]|[[psychedelic music|psychedelia]]))
| length   = 2:17
| label    = [[Parlophone]] (UK), [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| writer   = 
*[[George Harrison]]
*[[John Lennon]]
*[[Paul McCartney]]
*[[Ringo Starr|Richard Starkey]]((sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=123))
| producer = [[George Martin]]
))
"'''Flying'''" is an instrumental recorded by the English rock band [[The Beatles]] which first appeared on the 1967 ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'' release (two [[Extended play|EP]] discs in the United Kingdom, an [[LP album|LP]] in the United States). It is one of the few songs credited to all four members of the band: [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]] and [[Ringo Starr]].

==Origins==
The first instrumental written by The Beatles since "[[12-Bar Original]]" in 1965, this was also the first song to be credited as being written by all four members of the band with the writing credits of "Harrison/Lennon–McCartney/Starkey". ((sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=123)) Like "12-Bar Original", it was based on the classic [[twelve-bar blues]] chord progression. The other two Beatles instrumentals are "[[Cayenne (instrumental)|Cayenne]]" and "[[Cry for a Shadow]]", recorded in 1960 and 1961 respectively.

"Flying" was recorded on 8 September 1967 with [[mellotron]], guitar, bass, maracas, drums and tape loop overdubs on 28 September under its original title of "Aerial Tour Instrumental". The end of the recording originally included a fast-paced traditional New Orleans jazz-influenced [[coda (music)|coda]], but this was removed and replaced with an ending featuring tape loops created by [[John Lennon]] and [[Ringo Starr]] during the 28 September session. The loops extended the song to 9 minutes 38 seconds, but the track was cut down to only 2 minutes 17 seconds. Part of the loops were used alongside an element of the ending jazz sequence to make "The Bus", an incidental piece used at various points in the [[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|TV movie]].

==Recording==
On the track, as recorded and officially released, Lennon plays the main theme on [[mellotron]], accompanied by McCartney and Harrison (both on guitars, plus a later McCartney bass overdub) and Starr (on maracas and drums). All four Beatles sing the melody without lyrics of any kind, and the track fades in an assortment of tape effects created by Lennon and Starr. This released version is identical to that heard on the soundtrack of the ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' film; the music is accompanied in the film by colour-altered images of landscape in [[Iceland]] taken from an aeroplane, as well as some unused footage from the 1964 [[Stanley Kubrick]] film ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''.

A different version can be found on some Beatles [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] albums (such as ''Back-track 1''), and features added [[Hammond organ]] and strange whistling noises in the early parts of the track. The jazz-influenced ending is also present on this version, which is slightly shorter, clocking in at around 2:08. This coda, which [[Mark Lewisohn]] speculated was "seemingly copied straight from an unidentifiable modern jazz record",((sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=123)) was in fact played on a mellotron. (In addition to the familiar samples of instruments playing single notes, mellotrons had entire banks of a pop orchestra playing popular styles of music, with optional accompaniment. The piece here was played with the [[Dixieland]] Rhythm Mellotron setting.<ref>((cite AV media |title=Mike Pinder Presents Mellotron Samples))</ref>)

==Reception==
[[Richard Goldstein (writer born 1944)|Richard Goldstein]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' believed that the track, "as instrumental interlude, is more interesting, if only because it is more modest [than the rest of the album]".<ref>((cite news|last1=Goldstein|first1=Richard|title=Are The Beatles Waning?|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/music/123167lennon-beat.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=62|date=31 December 1967))</ref> [[Robert Christgau]] said that the track was "just a cut above [[Paul Mauriat]], not bad but not Our Boys".<ref>((cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=May 1968|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/column3.php|title=Columns: Dylan-Beatles-Stones-Donovan-Who, Dionne Warwick and Dusty Springfield, John Fred, California|publisher=robertchristgau.com|access-date=22 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629130741/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/column3.php|archive-date=29 June 2015|url-status=live))</ref> [[Rex Reed]], in a highly unfavourable review of the album for ''[[Stereo Review]]'', said that it "sounds like the soundtrack of an old [[Maria Montez]] jungle movie at just about the point where she feeds the chanting populace to the cobras".<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Archive-Stereo-Review-IDX/IDX/60s/HiFi-Stereo-Review-1968-03-OCR-Page-0113.pdf Popular Discs and Tapes], ''Stereo Review'', March 1968, p. 117.</ref>

==Personnel==
*[[John Lennon]] – [[Non-lexical vocables in music|wordless vocals]], [[Mellotron]], [[Hammond organ]], sound effects
*[[Paul McCartney]] – wordless vocals, bass, guitar
*[[George Harrison]] – wordless vocals, guitar
*[[Ringo Starr]] – wordless vocals, drums, [[maraca]]s, sound effects

==Notes==
((Reflist))

==References==
* ((Cite book
| last=Lewisohn
| first=Mark
| year=1988
| author-link=Mark Lewisohn
| title=The Beatles Recording Sessions
| publisher=[[Harmony Books]]
| location=New York
| isbn=0-517-57066-1
))

==External links==
* ((noteson|http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/f.shtml|Flying))

((Magical Mystery Tour))

((authority control))

((DEFAULTSORT:Flying (Song)))
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[[Category:Rock instrumentals]]
[[Category:The Beatles songs]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by George Martin]]
[[Category:Songs written by George Harrison]]
[[Category:Songs written by Ringo Starr]]
[[Category:Songs written by Paul McCartney]]
[[Category:Songs written by John Lennon]]
[[Category:Songs published by Northern Songs]]

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