GEORGE 1969: “It is very heavy. John plays lead guitar and sings, and it’s basically just an old blues riff he’s doing, but again, it’s a very original John-type song as well… It’s a very good chord sequence he used on this particular one.” JOHN 1969: “We used a Moog […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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PAUL 1968: “It’s simple in concept because you couldn’t think of anything else to put on it. Maybe on ‘Pepper’ we would have sort of worked on it until we could find some way to put violins or trumpets in there. But I don’t think it needs it, this one. […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul… with a little help from me, I think.” PAUL circa-1994: “I could do Little Richard’s voice which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing– It’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it. […]
George Harrison’s quote about “Think For Yourself” GEORGE 1980: “‘Think For Yourself’ must be written about somebody from the sound of it– but all this time later I don’t quite recall who inspired that tune. Probably the government.” About “Think For Yourself” “Think For Yourself” was written by George Harrison, […]
JOHN 1972: “Another of his I really liked.” JOHN 1980: “Paul’s. One of my favorites of his. A nice piece of work.” PAUL 1984: “I wrote that on a skiing holiday in Switzerland. In a hired chalet amongst the snow.” PAUL circa-1994: “I suspect it was about another argument. I […]
JOHN 1980: “Written together in the same room.” PAUL circa-1994: “We wanted to write something a little bit darker, bluesy… It was very much co-written and we both sang it. Sometimes the harmony that I was writing in sympathy to John’s melody would take over and become a stronger melody… […]
Published on 1965Author: Lennon/McCartneyTrack 3 on “Rubber Soul“ JOHN 1980: “Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “Normally I write on guitar and have full chords, or on piano and have full chords, but this was written around two little notes, a very slim phrase– a two-note progression that I had very high on […]
JOHN 1980: “Paul’s. Good song.” PAUL circa-1994: “I wrote ‘Things We Said Today’ on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we’ll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future and then is nostalgic about […]
JOHN 1971: “I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing ‘All Together Now.’” PAUL circa-1994: “When they were singing a song, to encourage the audience to join in they’d say ‘All together now,’ so I just took it and read another meaning into it, of– we […]
JOHN 1963: “It came to the charts in two days. And everybody thought it was a ‘fiddle’ because our manager’s stores send in these… what is it… record returns. And everybody down south thought, ‘Aha! He’s just fiddling the charts.’ But he wasn’t.” JOHN 1972: “Paul wrote the main structure […]
PAUL circa-1994: “We were in an experimental mode, and so I said, ‘Can I just make something up?’ I started off with the guitar and did a multitracking experiment in the control room… It was very home-made– it wasn’t a big production at all. I just made up this short […]
JOHN 1980: “His song… I might have done something.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘What You’re Doing’ was a bit of filler. I think it was a little more mine than John’s… You sometimes start a song and hope the best will arrive by the time you get to the chorus, but sometimes […]