JOHN 1968: “Strawberry Fields was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army home. But Strawberry Fields– I mean, I have visions of Strawberry Fields. And there was Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore, which I’ve just got in some song now, and they were just […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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JOHN 1980: “That’s me again… another Wilson Pickett, Motown sound… a four-in-the-bar cowbell song.” About “When I Get Home” “When I Get Home” is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and recorded by the English rock band the Beatles on 2 June 1964, during the last session […]
What the Beatles said about “She Loves You” JOHN 1963: “We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually.” PAUL 1963: “John and I wrote it together. We were in a van up in Newcastle somewhere, and we’d just gone over to our hotel. I originally got an idea […]
PAUL: “It’s complicated now. We can get it simpler, and then complicate it where it needs complications.” GEORGE: “It’s not complicated.” PAUL: “This one is like, shall we play guitars through ‘Hey Jude’ …well, I don’t think we should.” GEORGE: “Ok well I don’t mind… I’ll play, you know, whatever […]
JOHN 1969: (to Ringo, regarding the cymbal smash in the intro) “Give me a big ‘kzzzsshhhh!’ Give me the courage to come screaming in.” JOHN 1980: “That’s me, singing about Yoko.” PAUL circa-1994: “It was a very tense period. John was with Yoko, and had escalated to heroin and all […]
About “Sie Liebt Dich” “She Loves You” is also unusual in that, under the title “Sie liebt dich”, it is one of two songs rerecorded by the Beatles in German (the other being “Komm, gib mir deine Hand”). “Sie liebt dich” was released in Germany and in the USA (as […]
About “Tell Me What You See” “Tell Me What You See” appeared in 1965 on their album Help! in the United Kingdom and on Beatles VI in the United States. The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney but mainly written by Paul McCartney. Regarding the song’s authorship, McCartney said, “I seem […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me. Just a song– It doesn’t mean a damn thing.” Info about “I Should Have Known Better” “I Should Have Known Better” was composed by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney), and originally released by The Beatles on the United Kingdom-version of A Hard Day’s Night, their soundtrack […]
JOHN 1968: “Well, when Paul first sang ‘Hey Jude’ to me… or played me the little tape he’d made of it… I took it very personally. ‘Ah, it’s me,’ I said, ‘It’s me.’ He says, ‘No, it’s me.’ I said, ‘Check. We’re going through the same bit.’ So we all […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Oh! Darling’ was a great one of Paul’s that he didn’t sing too well. I always thought that I could’ve done it better– it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he’s going to sing it. If he’d had any sense he […]
Beatles quotes about “Lovely Rita” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul writing a pop song. He makes ’em up like a novelist. You hear lots of McCartney-influenced songs on the radio now. These stories about boring people doing boring things– being postmen and secretaries and writing home. I’m not interested in writing […]
JOHN 1980: “That was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England’s answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure… I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment, and I had a […]