released in the UK and US in March 1966 and January 1967, respectively. Though "I'm Down" closed the concert, the film was edited to show it as the opening number. Due to the overwhelming sound of audience screaming, technical issues with the live recording and musical mistakes on the part of the Beatles, the band rerecorded and overdubbed sections of the film's soundtrack on 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London. Among the fixes to "I'm Down" were overdubs of a new bass line by McCartney and a new organ part by Lennon. The song's original performance was chaotic, with Lennon and Harrison fumbling their backing vocals as they burst into laughter, McCartney spinning in excitement and Lennon playing the organ with his elbow. Lennon's rough use of the instrument resulted in it malfunctioning at their next show, played in Toronto two days later. In The Beatles Anthology, Starr reminisced that while watching Lennon during the song, he felt Lennon "cracked up" and "went mad; not mentally ill, but he just got crazy. He was playing the piano with his elbows and it was really strange". Riley suggests that Lennon's unhinged keyboard playing on "I'm Down" reflected the absurdity of the Beatles' live shows, and that "[t]he band's hysteria on this song [mirrored] their fans' deafening adulation". Covers The American hip hop group Beastie Boys recorded a cover of "I'm Down" for their 1986 debut studio album, Licensed to Ill. Produced by Rick Rubin, the recording samples elements of the original track while replacing the original organ solo with a guitar solo. Its inclusion on the album was blocked by the copyright owner, musician Michael Jackson, because he disapproved of several of the cover's altered lyrics, including: "I keep a loaded pistol inside my pants / Find a def girl and do the new dance." The record has since circulated as a bootleg. Music critic Rob Sheffield opines that the Beastie Boys' version "lives up to the garage-band vandalism of the original". American rock band Aerosmith covered the song for their 1987 album Permanent Vacation. Dave Reynolds' review of the album in Metal Forces magazine calls the cover "superb", and John Franck of AllMusic describes it as "well executed". Though music critic Robert Christgau is generally negative in his review of the album, he refers to their version of "I'm Down" as an "ace Beatle cover". Sheffield disparages the attempt,