Pepper album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase "Henry the Horse" combined two words that were individually known as slang for heroin.

The song's lyrics (based on the original poster) detail the evening's program, which was to occur at Bishopsgate in the following sequence: On Saturday at 5:50 pm the band was to begin playing while Mr. Kite would perform, flying "through the ring."

Meanwhile, Mr. Henderson would execute ten Somersets, and then perform on the trampoline, "over men and horses, through hoops and over garters,"[a] and "lastly through a hogshead of real fire."

[11] In 1977, when shown a list of songs Lennon claimed writing on (including "Mr. Kite"), McCartney disputed only "In My Life".

[17] In the middle eight bars, multiple recordings of fairground organs and calliope music were spliced together to attempt to satisfy this request.

[19] After a great deal of unsuccessful experimentation, Martin instructed recording engineer Geoff Emerick to chop the tape into pieces with scissors, throw them up in the air, and re-assemble them at random.

", reinforcing his title preference from a phrase lifted intact from the original Pablo Fanque poster.

The original recording can also be heard during the loading screen for the song if it is downloaded in the 2009 video game The Beatles: Rock Band.

[12] AllMusic stated that "the Beatles and Martin pulled out all the stops to make a layer of sound that was only possible to create in the recording studio [...] resulting in a sound both redolent of the circuses of bygone days, and as avant-garde as anything in rock music.