The Beatles’ quotes about “A Hard Day’s Night” RINGO 1964: “We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day…’ and I looked around […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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Lennon’s quotes about “Dig A Pony” JOHN 1972: “I was just having fun with words. It was literally a nonsense song. You just take words and you stick them together, and you see if they have any meaning. Some of them do and some of them don’t.” JOHN 1980: “Another […]
PAUL 1967: “We had been told we’d be seen recording it by the whole world at the same time. So we had one message for the world– Love. We need more love in the world.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘All You Need Is Love’ was John’s song. I threw in a few […]
JOHN 1968: “In ‘Baby You’re a Rich Man’ the point was, stop moaning. You’re a rich man and we’re all rich men, heh, heh, baby!” JOHN 1980: “That’s a combination of two seperate pieces, Paul’s and mine, put together and forced into one song. One-half was all mine. (sings) ‘How […]
PAUL 1968: “You see, I just start singing some words with a tune, you know what I mean. Mainly I’m just doing a tune and then some words come into my head, you know. And these happened to be ‘Martha My Dear, though I spend my days in conversation.’ So […]
About “I Need You” “I Need You” was written by George Harrison and was the second composition of his to be released by the Beatles. The track appears in their film “Help!”, in a scene filmed on Salisbury Plain where the group were under military protection from a murderous cult. […]
Beatles quotes about “From Me To You” PAUL 1964: “‘From Me To You.’ It could be done as an old Ragtime tune… especially the middle-eight. And so, we’re not writing the tunes in any particular idiom. In five years time, we may arrange the tunes differently. (jokingly) But we’ll probably […]
GEORGE 1980: “The ‘you’ in ‘Long Long Long’ is God. I can’t recall much about it except the chords, which I think were coming from (Dylan’s) ‘Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’– D to E minor, A, and D– those three chords and the way they moved.” About “Long, Long, […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Every Little Thing’ is his song. Maybe I threw in something.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘Every Little Thing,’ like most of the stuff I did, was my attempt at the next single… but it became an album filler rather than the great almighty single. It didn’t have quite what was […]
PAUL 1969: “That was just… I don’t know. I was in Scotland, and I was just writing this little tune. I can never tell, like, how tunes come out. I just wrote it as a joke.” About “Her Majesty” Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is a […]
JOHN 1967: “I often sit at the piano, working at songs with the television on low in the background. If I’m a bit low and not getting much done, the words from the telly come through. That’s when I heard the words, ‘Good Morning Good Morning.’” JOHN 1968: “We write […]
PAUL 1968: “It says ‘Born a poor young country boy’ and I was born in Woolton hospital actually– so it’s a dirty lie.” JOHN 1980: “Paul. That was from a lecture of Maharishi where he was talking about nature, and I had a piece called ‘I’m Just A Child Of […]