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"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
Song by The Beatles
from the album Help!
Released	6 August 1965
Recorded	18 February 1965
Genre	Rock
Length	2:06
Label	Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Writer(s)	Lennon/McCartney
Producer(s)	George Martin
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Help! track listing
Side one "Help!" "The Night Before" "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" "I Need You" "Another Girl" "You're Going to Lose That Girl" "Ticket to Ride" Side two "Act Naturally" "It's Only Love" "You Like Me Too Much" "Tell Me What You See" "I've Just Seen a Face" "Yesterday" "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is a song by The Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon & Paul McCartney, and first appeared on the album Help! in August 1965. The song also appeared on side three of the 1973 compilation The Red Album. It was one of John Lennon's "Bob Dylan era" songs. This song and "Yesterday" were two different songs for the Beatles at the time, two honest songs which fronted a new slant at songwriting for The Beatles.

Contents 1 Performance in the film 2 Influence of Bob Dylan 3 Other song information 4 Cover versions 5 External links

In the film, at the opening of the song, the head of the "Indian cult", Leo McKern, appears from a manhole cover in the middle of Ailsa Avenue, London, where parts of the film were shot. He stays there for the whole song, which the Beatles play in John Lennon's flat. They are watched by "Ahme", played by Eleanor Bron, and at the end of the song, George passes out after Ahme produces a giant needle for Ringo, who is wearing the ring the cult want.

At the time of the release of Help!, John Lennon was infatuated with the American singer Bob Dylan. He even used to dress like him, once wearing a cap that was very similar to one Dylan sported on the 1962 album Bob Dylan. The song "is just basically John doing Dylan", McCartney later said.^[1]

Lennon even mimics Dylan's gruff vocal style, and uses an accompaniment which is all acoustic with very little percussion. He also originally intended to add a harmonica solo at the end, which was common in Dylan's work.^{[citation needed]} Instead, The Beatles hired Johnnie Scott to play two overdubbed flute solos—one on a concert flute and one an octave lower on an alto flute.

The song is reputed to be about one of Lennon's numerous affairs, as his marriage to Cynthia was failing.^{[citation needed]} Other sources state it is a reference to Brian Epstein, the group's manager, who was homosexual (homosexuality was a criminal offence in Britain at the time).^{[citation needed]}

When Lennon made a mistake during the recording (he sang "two foot small" instead of "two foot tall"), he is reported to have said: "Leave it in, the pseuds'll love it!"^{[citation needed]}

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v • d • e The Beatles
John Lennon • Paul McCartney • George Harrison • Ringo Starr Pete Best • Stuart Sutcliffe
Management
Allan Williams • Brian Epstein • Allen Klein • Lee Eastman • Neil Aspinall • Mal Evans • Alistair Taylor • Apple Records
Production
George Martin • Geoff Emerick • Norman Smith • Phil Spector • Jeff Lynne • Abbey Road Studios
Official studio albums
Please Please Me (1963) • With the Beatles (1963) • A Hard Day's Night (1964) • Beatles for Sale (1964) • Help! (1965) • Rubber Soul (1965) • Revolver (1966) • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) • Magical Mystery Tour (U.S.-1967/UK-1976) • The Beatles (The White Album) (1968) • Yellow Submarine (1969) • Abbey Road (1969) • Let It Be (1970)
Past Masters compilations
Past Masters, Volume One (1988) • Past Masters, Volume Two (1988)
Filmography
A Hard Day's Night (1964) • Help! (1965) • Magical Mystery Tour (1967) • Yellow Submarine (1968) • Let It Be (1970)
Related articles
Line-ups • Bootlegs • Discography • Love (Cirque du Soleil) • Lennon/McCartney • Anthology • Influence • The Quarrymen • Breakup of the Beatles • London • Beatlemania • Fifth Beatle • Paul is dead • British Invasion • Apple Corps • Northern Songs • Yoko Ono • Billy Preston • Tony Sheridan • Chas Newby • Andy White • Jimmy Nicol • Astrid Kirchherr • Klaus Voormann