"Baby You're a Rich Man" (sometimes known as "Baby, You're a Rich Man" with an internal comma At least the following sites use a comma in the title, showing that this is a fairly common error, although it's not clear what the proportion of sites that have it wrong or right are. ^*," target="_blank" >^*," target="_blank" >[http://www.thebeatles.com.hk/lyrics/lyrics.asp?lyTitle=Baby%2C+You're+A+Rich+Man, and this Time article shows that the comma version has worked its way into popular culture, at least marginally.) is a song by The Beatles recorded on May 11, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, the first song recorded and mixed completely outside Abbey Road Studios. It was recorded for the Yellow Submarine animated film, but first appeared on record as the b-side to "All You Need is Love", then on the U.S. release of Magical Mystery Tour, in 1967. It was originally titled "One of the Beautiful People."

The song actually started out as two different, unfinished songs, the verse consisting of questions written by John Lennon and the chorus by Paul McCartney. The two songs were combined in a similar fashion to "A Day in the Life". "Baby You're a Rich Man" allegedly refers to The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. There is a rumor about the song that during the fade-out, Lennon sang "Baby you're a rich fag Jew queer boy" as a dig at Epstein, who was Jewish and a homosexual.

Mick Jagger provides back-up vocals on the song.

For several years, the song was only available in either mono or simulated stereo. Producer George Martin and recording engineer Geoff Emerick created a true stereo mix of the song in 1971 for the release of the Magical Mystery Tour album in Germany.

External links

• Seeklyrics.com lyrics (under title with comma)

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