JOHN 1980: “‘Another Girl’ is Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “It’s a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it.” About “Another Girl” The song was written […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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PAUL 1968: “What happened was ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ was on television. That’s an old rock film with Little Richard and Fats Domino and Eddie Cochran and a few others… and we wanted to see it, so we started recording at five o’clock. And we said, ‘We’ll do something, […]
JOHN 1972: “A nice tune, though the middle is a bit tatty.” JOHN 1980: “‘I’ll Be Back’ is me completely. My variation of the chords in a Del Shannon song.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘I’ll Be Back’ was co-written, but it was largely John’s idea.” About “I’ll Be Back” “I’ll Be Back” […]
JOHN 1972: “This was one of his first biggies.” JOHN 1980: “‘All My Loving’ is Paul, I regret to say. Because it’s a damn fine piece of work. But I play a pretty mean guitar in back.” PAUL 1984: “Yeah, I wrote that one. It was the first song I […]
JOHN 1963: “The B-side of ‘She Loves You’ was meant to be the A-side.” PAUL 1963: “If we write one song, then we can get going after that and get more ideas. We wrote ‘I’ll Get You,’ which is the B-side, first. And then ‘She Loves You’ came after that. […]
About “Real Love” “Real Love” is a song written by John Lennon. “Real Love” was subsequently reworked by the three remaining members of The Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) in late 1995. The song was released as a Beatles single in 1996 in the United Kingdom, United […]
PAUL 1968: “Chuck Berry once did a song called ‘Back In The USA,’ which is very American, very Chuck Berry. Very sort of, uhh… you know, you’re serving in the army, and when I get back home I’m gonna kiss the ground. And you know– Can’t wait to get back […]
About “Baby It’s You” Burt Bacharach wrote the music for “Baby It’s You”, and Luther Dixon (credited as Barney Williams) and Mack David wrote the lyrics. Both the Shirelles and the Beatles recorded the song and had hits with it. The highest-charting version of “Baby It’s You” was by the […]
GEORGE 1969: “Another very melodic tune of Paul’s which is also quite nice.” JOHN 1969: “It was up to Paul where he went with violins and what he did with them, and I think he wanted a stright kind of backing– nothing freaky.” PAUL 1969: “I was just playing the […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul… I think it was inspired by ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water.’ That’s my feeling, although I have nothing to go on. I know he wanted to write a ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water.’” PAUL 1986: “I had alot of bad times in the ’60s. We used to lie […]
GEORGE 1980: “‘For You Blue’ is a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal twelve-bar principles, except that it’s happy-go-lucky!” About “For You Blue” “For You Blue” is a song written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife, Pattie Boyd. It was included in their 1970 album […]
JOHN 1972: “A nice one.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul again. Can’t you tell? I mean– ‘Tomorrow may rain so/ I’ll follow the sun.’ That’s another early McCartney, you know… written almost before the Beatles, I think. He had alot of stuff.” PAUL 1988: “I wrote that in my front parlour […]