JOHN 1980: “That was something I wrote when I was about seventeen. I lived at 9 Newcastle Road. I was born on the ninth of October– the ninth month. It’s just a number that follows me around, but numerologically, apparently I’m a number six or a three or something, but […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “I think of this as totally by me. It was slightly country and western from my point of view. It was faster, though. It was a strange uptempo thing. I was quite pleased with it. The lyric works. It keeps dragging you forward… it […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it. The first half was Paul’s and the middle-eight is mine.” JOHN 1980: “‘And I Love Her’ is Paul again. I consider it his first ‘Yesterday.’ You know, the big ballad in ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ PAUL 1984: “It’s just a love song. It […]
JOHN 1980: “It’s got backwards guitars… that’s me dreaming my life away.” PAUL circa-1994: “It was a nice idea– ‘There’s nothing wrong with it. I’m not being lazy, I’m only sleeping, I’m yawning, I’m meditating, I’m having a lay-in.’ The luxury of all that was what it was all about. […]
The Beatles’ quotes about “Dear Prudence” JOHN 1980: “‘Dear Prudence’ is me. Written in India. A song about Mia Farrow’s sister, who seemed to go slightly balmy, meditating too long, and couldn’t come out of the little hut we were livin’ in. They selected me and George to try and […]
GEORGE 1980: “…about the avalanche of thoughts that are so hard to write down or say or transmit.” About “I Want To Tell You” “I Want To Tell You” was written and sung by George Harrison and it was his third composition for Revolver, following “Taxman” and “Love You To“. It […]
About “Devil In Her Heart” “Devil in Her Heart” is a song originally recorded by The Donays in 1962, but The Beatles later covered it for their album With the Beatles in 1963. The track showcases the band’s ability to infuse their own style into covers, transforming the original into […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it. I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for ‘Help!’ because there was at one time the thought of calling the film, ‘Eight Arms To Hold You.’” JOHN 1980: “Eight Days A Week’ was never a good […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it, but mainly Paul. I helped him finish it.” JOHN 1980: “‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ was a kind of lick Paul had– ‘I wanna be your lover, baby. I wanna be your man.’ I think we finished it off for the Stones. We […]
JOHN 1963: “I always hate singing the song, ‘Twist And Shout’ when there’s a colored artist on the bill with us. It doesn’t seem right, you know. I feel sort of embarrassed… It makes me curl up. I always feel they could do the song much better than me.” JOHN […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul’s song. He was trying to write a ‘Soldier Boy’ like the Shirelles. He wrote that in Germany, or when we were going to and from Hamburg. I might have contributed something. I can’t remember anything in particular. It was mainly his song.” PAUL circa-1994: “A theme […]
JOHN 1980: “‘There’s a Place’ was my attempt at a sort of Motown, black thing. It says the usual Lennon things: ‘In my mind there’s no sorrow…’ It’s all in your mind.” About “There’s A Place” “There’s A Place” is the second track on the album Please Please Me, released in […]