The story behind an under-appreciated Beatles song recorded exactly 45 years ago today, "Baby You're A Rich Man", courtesy of Bob Dearborn's The Olde Disc Jockey's Almanac...
"May 11, 1967…At Olympic Sound Studios in London, the Beatles recorded "Baby, You're A Rich Man," featuring an unusual oboe-like sound which was created by John Lennon playing a clavioline (an early forerunner of the synthesizer), with a spin-echo effect that was used to fill from the end of one line of the verse to the start of the next. Some have speculated that the song is about the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein."
