JOHN 1980: “‘It Wont Be Long’ is mine. It was my attempt at writing another single. It never quite made it. That was the one where the guy in the ‘London Times’ wrote about the ‘Aeolian cadences of the chords’ which started the whole intellectual bit about the Beatles.” PAUL […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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GEORGE 1969: “It does two verses of one tune, and then the bridge is almost like a different song altogether, so it’s quite melodic.” PAUL 1988: “We wanted to dabble, and I had a bit of fun making some of the songs fit together, with key changes (into the long […]
About “Slow Down” “Slow Down” is a 12-bar blues written and performed by Larry Williams. Released as a single in 1958, it was a Rhythm and Blues hit that influenced the growing Rock & Roll movement of the time. It was released as a 7″ single (45RPM). The A-Side was […]
George Harrison’s quotes about “Love You To” GEORGE 1966: “I play sitar on another track. I don’t care if everybody is using ’em, you know. I just play it ‘cuz I like it.” GEORGE 1980: “‘Love You To’ was one of the first tunes I wrote for sitar. ‘Norwegian Wood […]
GEORGE 1969: “Revolution 9 wasn’t particularly like a Beatles number… it worked quite well in the context of all those different songs. I find it heavy to listen to myself– in fact, I don’t, really.” JOHN 1971: “I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution, but I […]
JOHN 1969: “‘Come Together’ changed at the session. We said, ‘Let’s slow it down. Let’s do this to it, let’s do that to it,’ and it ends up however it comes out. I just said, ‘Look, I’ve got no arrangement for you, but you know how I want it.’ I […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Tell Me Why…’ they needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off. It was like a black, New York girl-group song.” PAUL circa-1994: “I think alot of these songs like ‘Tell Me Why’ were based in real life experiences… but it never occured to us until […]
JOHN 1972: “Paul. One of his best.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul. He even recorded it by himself in another room. That’s how it was getting in those days. We came in, and he’d made the whole record. Him drumming, him playing the piano, him singing. But he couldn’t… maybe he […]
JOHN 1972: “Paul. I think I might have helped with some of the lyrics, Yes, I did. But it was mainly Paul’s tune.” JOHN 1980: “‘Paperback Writer’ is son of ‘Day Tripper’ …meaning a rock ‘n roll song with a guitar lick on a fuzzy loud guitar.” PAUL circa-1994: “I […]
The Beatles’ quotes about “Do You Want to Know a Secret” JOHN 1980: “Well, I can’t say I wrote it ‘for’ George. My mother was always… she was a good comedienne and a singer. Not professional, but she used to get up in pubs and things like that. She had […]
PAUL 1964: “Let’s see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house when we were walking along one day. We knew we had to really get this song going, so we got down in the basement of this disused house and there was […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Thank You Girl’ was one of our efforts at writing a single that didn’t work. So it became a B-side or an album track.” PAUL 1988: “We knew that if we wrote a song called, ‘Thank You Girl’ that alot of the girls who wrote us fan letters […]