The Beatles win Grammy award for ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ over 50 years after their breakup

By editorial board on February 6, 2024

The Beatles won the Best Music Video award at the 2024 Grammys Sunday night for the track “I’m Only Sleeping” — a song which was first released all the way back in 1966.

The song’s music video beat out other notable nominees such as Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Count Me Out,” as mentioned on the Grammys website.

After many decades, a music video was then directed by artist Em Cooper and launched to The Beatles’ YouTube channel in November 2022. The video, according to The Beatles’ website, took over 1,300 individual oil paintings to create the “visual exploration of the space between dreaming and wakefulness.”

The last time The Beatles won any Grammy award, according to the Grammys website, was for the 1996 event, where they received three awards for various categories.

Despite the win, the living band members will not receive the award. As reported by Forbes, the award will actually go to the directors and producers of the music video because The Beatles, themselves, were not involved with the project.

George Harrison’s unique guitar solo was actually due to an engineering error that combined the multitrack tape incorrectly, playng backward.

This mistake excited everyone in the recording studio, as McCartney remembered saying, “My God, that is fantastic! Can we do that for real?”

'I'm So Tired', McCartney: Lennon had a love affair with his bed; was the laziest person in England
 

John Lennon loved to sleep. Paul would arrive at midday or the early afternoon and wake him up. McCartney recalled having to wait for Lennon to wake up on numerous occasions to partake in songwriting sessions – during one waiting session, he even composed ‘Here, There, and Everywhere’ sitting outside Lennon’s house.
“He can sleep almost indefinitely, is probably the laziest person in England,” was how journalist Maureen Cleave summarised Lennon’s napping habits. “‘Physically lazy,’ he said. ‘I don’t mind writing or reading or watching or speaking, but sex is the only physical thing I can be bothered with any more’.” (Faroutmagazine)

John's love affair with his bed can be detected in a good number of songs he had composed during his career, most notably his lazily drifting “I'm Only Sleeping” from The Beatles' “Revolver.”

 

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