Though John and George sometimes change positions - here, for example, that’s clearly George on the far right. In the OP’s example, John is singing lead while Paul and George are singing harmony, which probably accounts for having them share a mic.
I have a theory that the others didn’t want to share a mic with John because he slobbered brine shimp all over it or something. 
I say this because I know any band that plays after mine would be very wise to change out the mic. :o
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Nuh-UNH, it was “I am a Walrus.” I put my record on the record player, made a cone from paper, and stuck a pin in the narrow end of the cone. Then my friends and I leaned over and I spun the turntable backwards with one finger and we held our breaths, as we listened for John saying, “I buried Paul.”
There were clues on the Abbey Road album cover (the other three were dressed like funeral mourners, Paul was barefoot–common custom to save money on shoes–and he held a cigarette in his RIGHT hand), a bunch of very obscure clues on the Sgt Pepper album cover, and supposedly a ton of anecdotal stories to corroborate the demise of Paul.
DAMN! It was an effective marketing campaign! I’m still in awe of it, a hundred years later!
~VOW
Except that it wasn’t a marketing campaign. No one has ever shown that the Beatles or their record company had any involvement (and, really, do you really think it required stunts to market the Beatles in 1969?). It also probably didn’t increase sales, since you could see most of the “clues” on the cover artwork in a record store.
Y’all must’ve turned quiet blue after a while. Because the “I buried Paul” / “Cranberry Sauce” line is most definitely at the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” as previously mentioned. 
Here you go.
No, “I buried Paul” is at the end of Strawberry Fields. It’s John saying “Cranberry sauce” - either as sort of a surrealist thing or because he was stoned out of his gourd. I didn’t think that was one of the ones you were supposed to play backward. I can imagine “cranberry sauce” as “I buried Paul” if you already had the idea in your brain.
That would be “I am ***the ***walrus.” I suppose there can never be more than one walrus.
*And *the “28IF” license plate!
There were girls who had some favorite Beatle who was not Paul?
Right, sorry, “I am THE Walrus.”
As for the “I…buried…Paul” controversy, I’m not aware that “cranberry sauce” played BACKWARDS would sound like “I buried Paul.”
We HEARD it at the end of “I am the Walrus” played backwards. Want me to get my witnesses?
Can’t do it again. #1, that pin probably destroyed the track on the original vinyl record, and #2, my hearing is almost gone, although I don’t think that playing my Beatle albums is what destroyed it. More like a congenital hearing loss exacerbated by high blood pressure and HBP meds. Anyway, I’m officially disabled with profound loss, so I’m not gonna be listening for John’s voice any time soon.
~VOW
I can’t remember where I read/heard it (I’ve listened to several Beatles documentaries on the BBC and they all bleed together) but it’s been said that Ringo was extremely popular in the States, what with his prominent role in the film Help – perhaps the quiet, underdog, vulnerable persona was considered especially loveable to young girls.
As a testament to the belief in his popularity, in the U.S., his “Act Naturally” was the A-side of their first single following the massive hit “Help.” The thinking was presumably that due to Ringo’s popularity this song would be the bigger hit than the track it was paired with on the B-side.
The B-side? An unimportant McCartney song called “Yesterday.”
No, because I don’t actually care, and because I think that if you trying to hear something - as most of the people looking for ‘clues’ were - you can easily make yourself hear it. The fact remains that the “I buried Paul” fragment that everyone talks about comes from Strawberry Fields, and it’s actually John saying “Cranberry sauce.”
Thus we find the musical geek’s equivalent of the “Do Balrogs have wings?” argument that fantasy nerds have…
choie, “Yesterday” was the A-side and “Act Naturally” was the B-side:
This single was only released in the U.S. It was only ten years later that a single of “Yesterday” was released in the U.K. You could have checked this in a minute’s worth of research.
I think it’s just a joke name for the song. “Strawberry Fields” ~ “Cranberry Sauce”.
Could be. Wikipedia quotes McCartney as saying this: “That wasn’t ‘I buried Paul’ at all—that was John saying ‘cranberry sauce’. It was the end of Strawberry Fields. That’s John’s humour. John would say something totally out of sync, like cranberry sauce. If you don’t realise that John’s apt to say cranberry sauce when he feels like it, then you start to hear a funny little word there, and you think, ‘Aha!’”
Which doesn’t exactly explain very much.
Yeah, I think you’re a bit mixed up. “I Am the Walrus” has quotes from King Lear in it (“Seek him out/Upon the English party/O, untimely death!/Death!/I know thee well: a serviceable villain/As duteous to the vices of thy mistress/As badness would desire”), played forward, and “Strawberry Fields Forever” has “cranberry sauce”/“I buried Paul”, also played forward. You might be thinking of “Revolution 9”, which supposedly said “turn me on, dead man” when played backwards.
Funnily enough, O ever-helpful Wendell, I did.
Image of “Act Naturally” with both A- and B-side versions
Anyway, I didn’t just go to Wikipedia, which I should have. Sue me. But it does appear that Capitol Records has listed “Act Naturally” as the A-side.
This was also repeated on one of the BBC documentaries I listened to, which unfortunately I can’t cite. May have been the George Martin “The Producers” interview/biography (which I highly recommend to anyone who’s interested in that side of things).
Omigod, my sister and I were too freaked-out to even *try *that!