| | Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Drive My Car" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Recorded in mid-October 1965, "Drive My Car" bears some uncanny associations with both sides of a certain "double-A" single of our acquaintance that was coincidentally worked on in the studio during the same week. |
 | | In the terminology of high school physics — I warn you, my erstwhile music theory students used to tease me mercilessly as the Master of Analogy — you might describe the home key of "Drive My Car" as having a perilously high, and thereby inherently unstable, center of gravity. |
 | | "Drive My Car" is one of the Beatles harder-rocking bluesy numbers, ranking way up there with the perhaps more celebrated "A Hard Day's Night" and "Ticket To Ride" for its hyper-thrust and equally sharp edge. |
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