Talk:One After 909

area code
Does this have to do with the area code for San Bernardino county which is 909?

I think 909 is a train number, whoever wrote this article needs to tell us what the song is about!


 * John Lennon about this song, 1980: "That was something I wrote when I was about seventeen. I lived at 9 Newcastle Road. I was born on the ninth of October-- the ninth month. It's just a number that follows me around, but numerologically, apparently I'm a number six or a three or something, but it's all part of nine." (from http://www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dba12let.html) 62.147.39.62 18:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Isn't October the 10th month? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.9.176 (talk) 18:17, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidently numerology wasn't Lennon's long suit. Racing Forward (talk) 19:42, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Of course there's an obvious correlation: if you add up 9+0+9, you get eighteen, which is the year after Lennon turned seventeen. Racing Forward (talk) 19:35, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * And don't forget that October is indeed the ninth month for those who start the year in February. Racing Forward (talk) 19:38, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Rickenbacker-esque?
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. If someone could clarify, that would be helpful, as I have never heard of Rickenbacker being related to any sort of music theory or structure. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.86.151.244 (talk) 04:51, 27 February 2007 (UTC).
 * I didn't write the entry, so I can't say what it means exactly, and I agree it's confusing, especially to people who don't know what a Rickenbacker is. I think "Rickenbacker-esque" refers to the distinct sound of 12-string Rickenbacker guitars, and the type of songs that arise when composing while playing one. I don't think the Beatles got their Rickenbackers until 1964, and given that the early version of "One After 909" was written in the late '50s or early '60s, and recorded 5 March 1963, the entry would have to mean that the guitar sounds like it was written on a Rickenbacker, but wasn't. Certainly 12-bar song structures are not dependent on Rickenbackers! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by John Cardinal (talk • contribs) 05:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC).

The Isles of Ken?
At the end of the song Lennon plays the opening of Danny Boy to the altered lyrics "Oh, Danny Boy, the Isles of Ken are calling..." -- what are the Isles of Ken, what did it mean, where did he got that from? (Google was to no avail about that, since the only occurences are Beatles lyrics, and later Dead Can Dance lyrics.) Thanks. 62.147.39.62 18:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * There's a footnote on The Serpent's Egg that goes into this. 82.95.254.249 14:29, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Danny Boy" words after "One After 909"
I've listened to it a 100X & it seems obvious to me that John is singing: "Oh Danny Boy...the Ulster..Men are callin'..." The Beatles were Liverpudlians of full or partial Irish descent & John & Paul were especially upset about the English policy in NI, and this was a sort of ditty thrown in a few years before Bloody Sunday happened. John & Paul both writing songs which were banned by the BBC: John & Yoko's "Bloody Sunday" & "The Luck of the Irish",& Paul's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish": http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/beatle.html. At the time "Ulstermen' was not synonymous with the Protestant side as it became after Bloody Sunday which the British courts have finally & officially called 'murder'. Ulster always having been the strongest point of resistance against English incursions & occupations in Ireland & the 1st colony of the new English Empire despite the fact that the Irish were already living there. They took the Lowlander Anglo-Scots Presbyterians who fought themselves, the Scots, the English & anyone else(Later became the Scots-Irish who were the fiercest Indian fighters) & sent them by boatloads into Catholic Ulster to settle lands already belonging to the Irish Catholic natives. The following in double quotes is hearsay: ""Ringo I've been told tried to be a referee between George, a radical Pacifist & John & Paul who didn't approve of the English being in Northern Ireland. George thought John's little ditty might inflame the situation. George actually was the 1st one to quit the group over this & some other disagreements but apparently they eventually made up. So don't blame Yoko, even if you don't like her, or Paul who made the 1st solo album. Blame the Irish! Heh. Been there."" Just remember Paul's Grampa in "A Hard Day's Night!" I personally met John, Yoko & George at Yoko's Solo exhibit at the Everson Museum in 1971 & when I repeated the "Danny Boy" part as I say above, as John was walking away, he stopped & half-turned & pumped his right fist, saying: "England out!" Jpcasey (talk) 03:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpcasey (talk • contribs) 03:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Beatles "The/the" Issue Mediation Input Request
Please note that request for input by email was made on the talk page, *not* on the page mentioned above. Email must be submitted to be considered as your input to this matter. 99.251.125.65 (talk) 12:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Genres
I have removed rock and roll and blues from the genre parameter. Rock and roll is not provided with a citation. Blues is provided with a reliable source however does not explicitly label it as the blues genre but it as an influence.

I have added roots rock, a genre which combines all elements of both genres provided previously, to the parameter which the source labels the song as the genre and is reliable. If you do not agree with my edits, please do not resort to undoing them but try to find a reliable source which labels the song as the genre and add them. --Mistymountain546 (talk) 18:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

I think Lennon wrote this before he met McCartney
If I'm not mistaken, back when they were teenagers, when Lennon and McCartney first talked about writing songs, McCartney had already written "I Saw Her Standing There" (my own favorite Beatles recording) and Lennon had already written "One After 909" (another of my favorites, along with "I'm a Loser" and "I Feel Fine"). Of course this was long before either of them had recorded anything. Racing Forward (talk) 19:29, 15 July 2022 (UTC)