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"In Spite of All the Danger" is one of the first songs recorded by the Quarrymen, then composed of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, pianist John Lowe and drummer Colin Hanton. The song was written by McCartney and Harrison and is the only song to credit the two alone. It is believed to have been recorded on Saturday 12 July 1958〔(THE RECORDINGS - phillipsacetates.com )〕 (three days before Lennon's mother's death). However, that recording date is disputed by the group. The recording was made at Percy Phillips' home studio in Liverpool (see 1958 in music), and cost 17 shillings and six pence (87.5p). ==Composition== Along with their cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" recorded at the same session, these songs were the first recordings made by what would become the Beatles. The only other previous recording of the Quarrymen in performance was a reel-to-reel tape-recording made by an audience member on 6 July 1957, during the Quarrymen's last set for the 1957 ''Rose Queen garden fête'' at St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool.〔(THE SOURCE - The Savage Young Beatles - 6 July 1957 - Woolton Parish Church )〕 This was made on the very day on which McCartney first met Lennon, but before he was a member of the group. So, while it is true that an audience member made a recording that night, the recording was not under the band's control, and it was made before McCartney, Harrison or Starr joined the band. McCartney has claimed he wrote the song. "'In Spite Of All The Danger' was actually written by me and George played the guitar solo! We were mates and nobody was into copyrights and publishing, nobody understood — we actually used to think when we came down to London that songs belonged to everyone.... I remember we all went down on the bus with our instruments – amps and guitars – and the drummer went separately. We waited in the little waiting room outside while somebody else made their demo and then it was our turn. We just went into the room, hardly saw the fella because he was next door in a little control booth. "OK, what are you going to do?" We ran through it very quickly, quarter of an hour, and it was all over. I think we paid £5 for that. It was me, John, George, Colin Hanton on drums and Duff Lowe, five of us ... I sang the lead, I think so anyway. It was my song. It's very similar to an Elvis song. It's me doing an Elvis ... I'm a bit loath to say which! ... It was one that I'd heard at scout camp when I was younger and I'd loved it."〔Mark Lewisohn. The Beatles Recording Sessions. Harmony Books. New York. 1989. The Paul McCartney Interview. http://www.scribd.com/doc/27774163/The-Beatles-Recording-Sessions-MARK-LEWISOHN (accessed 24 December 2012)〕 Most commentators conclude that the Presley song used by McCartney as a model was "Tryin' to Get to You", which was included in Elvis's first UK album, back in 1956. Chris Ingram says it was "clearly inspired" by it,〔Chris Ingham, ''The Rough Guide to the Beatles'', Rough Guides, 2009.〕 and John C. Winn says it was "fashioned after" it.〔''Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, 1957-1965'', Three Rivers Press, 2008, p.2.〕 However, the fact McCartney himself is not entirely sure as to which Elvis song influenced him may be simply that it was not just one Elvis song, but actually two of his songs which influenced him, the second being the last track on Elvis' 1957 Christmas Album, which hit UK stores by early December, a gospel song entitled "It is no secret". Twice during that recording, after the first and second verse, the Jordainaires, who backed Presley starting in 1956, perform a chorus which is very similar to the various choruses one hears "In spite of all the danger". That particular chorus is not heard in any of the original versions of the same song, by other artists, so if in fact McCartney wanted to recreate the Elvis song he'd heard and loved while at scout camp, years earlier, it was after listening to both songs, the second a few months before recording "In spite of all the danger", that did the job, inadvertent as it may have been, in the latter case. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In Spite of All the Danger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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