<P> Writing for Mojo in 2003, Martin O'Gorman paired "Baby, You're a Rich Man" with Harrison "It's All Too Much" as two of the Beatles' "most sonically intriguing, but unfocused tracks". In a 2009 review of Magical Mystery Tour, Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork Media dismissed the song as "a second - rate take on John Lennon's money - isn't - everything theme from the considerably stronger' And Your Bird Can Sing"'. He added that it was "the one lesser moment on an otherwise massively rewarding (album)". Dan Caffrey of Consequence of Sound writes that, while it lacks the wholly universal scope of other songs by the band, "it's a nice little Lennon morality ditty on the perils of materialism with some innovative work with the clavioline from Lennon ." Music critic Jim DeRogatis considers the track to be one of the Beatles' best psychedelic rock songs and an effective comment on Britain's first major countercultural happening . In 2010, "Baby, You're a Rich Man" was ranked at number 68 in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest Beatles songs . The magazine's editors wrote: "Lennon's deeply stoned delivery and abstract questions about' the beautiful people' captured the playfully spaced - out mood of the summer of 1967--a spirit the Beatles were more tapped into than anyone ." </P> <P> George Martin and recording engineer Geoff Emerick created the first true stereo mix of the song when preparing a 1971 German release of the Magical Mystery Tour album . Unable to recreate the spin - echo effect that had been introduced at the mixing stage of the original recording, they simply omitted it . The mix was completed on 22 October 1971 . It was first made available in Britain in December 1981, when "Baby, You're a Rich Man" was included on a bonus EP containing previously unissued stereo mixes in the box set The Beatles EP Collection . </P> <P> "Baby, You're a Rich Man" was mixed in stereo for a second time (again omitting the spin - echo effect) for the 1999 DVD release of the Yellow Submarine film and the accompanying Yellow Submarine Songtrack album . Portions of Lennon's clavioline part appear in the Love version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", released in 2006 . In 2009, remastered stereo (per 1971) and mono (per 1967) Magical Mystery Tour album CDs were released . The song plays at the end of The Social Network, a 2010 film directed by David Fincher about the rise of Facebook . </P> <P> American rappers the Fat Boys performed "Baby, You're a Rich Man" in the 1987 comedy film Disorderlies . In their song "The Beautiful", from the 1991 album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, hip - hop duo P.M. Dawn incorporated the "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" lyric and, having been denied permission to sample the Beatles' recording, replicated part of the music from "Baby, You're a Rich Man". The song has also been covered by Kula Shaker, the Presidents of the United States of America and Umphrey's McGee . </P>

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