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"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" is a song from the 1967 album by the Beatles, ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.'' It was primarily written and composed by John Lennon, although Paul McCartney has recently stated that he also contributed to it.〔 The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney. ==Inspiration== The inspiration to write the song was a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal, Rochdale, that Lennon purchased in an antique shop on 31 January 1967, while filming the promotional videos for "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Sevenoaks, Kent. Lennon claimed years later to still have the poster in his home. "Everything from the song is from that poster," he explained, "except the horse wasn't called Henry." (The poster identifies the horse as "Zanthus.") The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney, but Lennon claimed to have written it entirely himself.〔 McCartney disagrees and in a 2013 ''Rolling Stone'' interview states: "I read, occasionally, people say, 'Oh, John wrote that one.' I say, 'Wait a minute, what was that afternoon I spent with him, then, looking at this poster?' He happened to have a poster in his living room at home. I was out at his house, and we just got this idea, because the poster said 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite' – and then we put in, you know, 'there will be a show tonight,' and then it was like, 'of course,'...The song just wrote itself. So, yeah, I was happy to kind of reclaim it as partially mine.'" Mr. Kite is believed to be William Kite, who worked for Pablo Fanque from 1843 to 1845. The full text of the original Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal poster is: :PABLO FANQUE'S CIRCUS ROYAL, :TOWN-MEADOWS, ROCHDALE. :Grandest Night of the Season! :AND POSITIVELY THE :LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! :BEING FOR THE :BENEFIT OF MR. KITE, :(LATE OF WELLS'S CIRCUS) AND :MR. J. HENDERSON, :THE CELEBRATED SOMERSET THROWER! :WIRE DANCER, VAULTER, RIDER, &c. :On TUESDAY Evening, February 14, 1843. :Mssrs. KITE and HENDERSON, in announcing the following Entertainments, assure the Public that this Night's Production will be one of the most splendid ever produced in this town, having been some days in preparation. :Mr. KITE will, for this night only, introduce the :CELEBRATED :HORSE, ZANTHUS! :Well known to be one of the :best Broke Horses :IN THE WORLD!!! :Mr. HENDERSON will undertake the arduous Task of :THROWING TWENTY-ONE SOMERSETS, :ON THE SOLID GROUND. :Mr. KITE will appear, for the first time this season, :On the Tight Rope, :When Two Gentlemen Amateurs of this Town will :perform with him. :Mr. HENDERSON will, for the first time in Rochdale, :introduce his extraordinary :TRAMPOLINE LEAPS :AND :SOMERSETS! :Over Men & Horses, through Hoops, over Garters, :and lastly through a :Hogshead of REAL FIRE! :In this branch of the profession Mr. H challenges :THE WORLD! :For particulars see Bills of the day. :JONES & CROSSKILL, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS, YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE. "Mr. J. Henderson" was John Henderson, a wire-walker, equestrian, trampoline artist, and clown. While the poster made no mention of "Hendersons" plural, as Lennon sings, John Henderson did perform with his wife Agnes, the daughter of circus owner Henry Hengler. The Hendersons performed throughout Europe and Russia during the 1840s and 1850s. A hogshead is a large wooden cask. 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「Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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