Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (original mono studio mix)

Name: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Duration: 2 min 38 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.7	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	2:39	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Limited Edition)	The Beatles	Album	US1982	EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint), Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab	MFQR 1-100
1.7	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	2:37	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Album	US1987-06-01	Parlophone	CDP 7 46442 2
1.7	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	2:37	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Album	US1994	Parlophone, Apple Records	CDP 7 46442 2
1.7	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	2:38	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2009 stereo remaster)	The Beatles	Album	US2009-09-09	Apple Records, Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), Parlophone	0946 3 82419 2 8
8.7	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	2:38	The Beatles	The Beatles (2009 stereo remasters)	The Beatles	Album + Compilation	US2009-09-09	Apple Records	5099969944901

engineer:	Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer)
producer:	George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician)
bass, bass guitar and background vocals:	Paul McCartney (The Beatles) (on 1967-02-17)
bass harmonica:	Mal Evans (on 1967-03-28)
drums (drum set):	Ringo Starr (The Beatles) (on 1967-02-17)
glockenspiel:	George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician) (from 1967-02-17 until 1967-03-28)
guitar:	Paul McCartney (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-28)
Hammond organ:	John Lennon (The Beatles) (from 1967-02-17 until 1967-02-28)
harmonica:	Neil Aspinall (on 1967-03-28) George Harrison (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-28) Ringo Starr (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-28)
harmonium:	George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician) (on 1967-02-17)
mellotron:	George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician) (from 1967-02-17 until 1967-03-28, on 1967-03-28)
organ:	George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician) (from 1967-02-17 until 1967-03-28, on 1967-03-28) John Lennon (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-28)
tambourine:	George Harrison (The Beatles) (on 1967-02-17) Ringo Starr (The Beatles) (from 1967-02-17 until 1967-03-28)
lead vocals:	John Lennon (The Beatles) (on 1967-02-17)

recorded at:	Abbey Road Studios: Studio 2 in St John's Wood (on 1967-02-17, on 1967-03-28) Abbey Road Studios: Studio 3 in St John's Wood (on 1967-02-20)
edited at:	Abbey Road Studios: Studio 3 in St John's Wood (on 1967-02-20) Abbey Road Studios: Studio 2 in St John's Wood (on 1967-03-29)

DJ-mixes:	Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite! / Digital Love by TeeVex (Evelyn Vexille)
has remixes:	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (2017 stereo remix)
mash-ups:	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Helter Skelter (Love version) Electrified Kite by dj BC (Bob Cronin, Mashup creator)

stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/track/6UuPrHr8Ik947c4tBDuHZe [info]

recording of:	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (from 1967-02-17 until 1967-03-28)

writer:	John Lennon (The Beatles) Paul McCartney (The Beatles)

publisher:	Maclen Music, Inc. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney) Northern Songs Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020) Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) Northern Songs Ltd. (in 1967)

referred to in medleys:	Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Helter Skelter (Love version) (order: 1)