“'It was just half a song I had which I never finished,” he explained to a DJ in 1969, “which was one way of getting rid of it without ever finishing it. Then, when Paul approached him sometime in May of 1969, inquiring whether he had any unfinished songs he might have to compile into a long medley, John presented this undeveloped song idea along with a few others. This early development of "Sun King," apparently not having a name as of yet, appeared to have languished in the back of John's mind in this unfinished state for a few months. It is here we see the true evolution of what eventually became the song "Sun King." Also, if only subconsciously, this may be the initial inspiration for George Harrison to write his song " Here Comes The Sun " a few months later. However, John simultaneously began toying around with these "pull chords" in loosely developing them into a seperate song that included the " Here comes the sun " theme in the lyrics. Interestingly, the chord pattern he was using for this composite song was played in a very distinctive way, using what some would term "pull chords." A small segment of this can be heard on the "Fly On The Wall" bonus disc that came with the 2003 released "Let It Be.Naked" album.Īs " Don't Let Me Down " continued to be developed in later January sessions, these "pull chords" were dropped. " He combined this new composition with another song idea, one in which he interchanged the words " Here comes the sun, whoa, the sun " with " Don't let me down ," as first evidenced on January 2nd, 1969 at Twickenham Film Studios, this being the first day of rehearsals for what would eventually become the "Let It Be" film and sountrack album. Sometime in December of 1968, John had begun writing a song dedicated to his new love Yoko Ono entitled " Don't Let Me Down. On the contrary, its inspiration and significance goes much deeper than that. As we'll see below, this song is far more than a piece of unfinished finger-picking guitar playing that Lennon happened to light upon one day and never got around do doing anything with, as many assume, and therefore fit in nicely as an adequate but insignificant segue between two other more noteworthy pieces of music. What is interesting regarding the song “Sun King,” the second title attributed to what most refer to as the long “ Abbey Road ” medley on side two of that album, is that the Genesis of that composition comes from all five of the categories mentioned above. Whether it's from something one of them read somewhere, a song one of them heard, a recording artist one of them admired, a suggestions someone made, or even a dream one of them had, the seeds of where a classic song comes from can be thrilling to uncover. Upon investigation, it's quite interesting to discover the inspiration behind the individual songs of The Beatles.
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