Talk:Mr. Blue Sky

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I don't hear the hidden message. Can anybody be more specific about where it happens? How many seconds from beginning or end? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.163.169.215 (talk) 04:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is right at the end of the song. As the last note is held the message is spoken... you may have mistaken it for normal synth notes as it is heavily vocoded. My CD version is 5.04 long and the voice is from 4.51 to 4.56. --LiamE (talk) 03:43, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The voice actually says "Mister Blue Sky", as "Mis-ter-blue-sky-yy", as earlier in the song. It's not "Please Turn Me Over". Ugo1970 (talk) 21:18, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to retract completely my comment above. Listening to the track on its own, separately from the video, it's indeed very clear that the vocoded voice at the end says "Please turn me over" and not "Mister Blue Sky". Like many fans, I was fooled by the video. Ugo1970 (talk) 23:50, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm this after watching/listening to the promo video on Youtube. Oldiesmann (talk) 21:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've enjoyed this album since its release, and have always thought it said "please turn me over". I've never seen the video, and completely unaware of this mishearing until reading this just now. So just letting you know it's not universally misheard! 58.168.107.29 (talk) 12:06, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Who is Torrento under "Inspiration" and "Writer" & "Producer"? Wmdave (talk) 00:42, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

questionable story of origins of song in article

In Jg Frazier's The Worship of Nature (1926) there is a discussion of sky gods worshipped by people in Annam (now Vietnam) one of which is called 'Mr Sky' or 'Mr Blue Sky' or 'Grandfather Sky'...sounds more plausible that Jeff Lynne read this passage (pg 85 of the first edition) about the personification of the sky and worked up the song from that rather than the account given in the article...anyway, it's only pop music I guess -cheers-Pot-bellied fool (talk) 02:04, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lily Allen cover

This article mentions that it was released as a single by Lily Allen. I've heard the track, but it's not listed at Lily Allen discography. Can someone who knows the answer sort this out? Dybeck (talk) 15:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Intro similarities with Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles

Hi. I've just read this article and in the inspiration section although it mentions the Beatles it doesn't mention that part of the intro of Mr Blue Sky (from 0:08 to 0:14) seems to be a direct reference to the intro of The Beatles' Good Day Sunshine (0:00-0:09) but speeded up - or is it just me ?? MeBeMe3000 (talk) 09:35, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is built on WP:SECONDARY sources, so if you would like to change the article here, you should point us to a reliable published work that mentions the similarity. Binksternet (talk) 15:14, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've always thought that "Mr Blue Sky" is Beatles-ish in its overall style, and Jeff Lynne and the Beatles have worked together. The intro of "Mr Blue Sky" could be seen as a sort of sped-up quote of the intro of "Good Day Sunshine" but this sort of thing happens all the time in pop music. Unless this is covered by by reliable sources, or it set off a copyright infringement lawsuit, it isn't notable enough for a mention as it would be original research.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 15:47, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This song was also featured in...

the ninth episode of the seventh season of american dad - fartbreak hotel Snarevox (talk) 10:58, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This may well be true, but see WP:SONGTRIVIA.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 11:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]