JOHN 1980: “Just my attempt at writing one of those three-part harmony Smokey Robinson songs. Nothing in the lyrics… just a sound and a harmony. There was a period when I thought I didn’t write melodies… that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock ‘n roll. But […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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JOHN 1972: “Both of us. I wrote the middle with him.” PAUL 1977: “‘Michelle’ was like a joke French tune for when you go to a party or something. That’s all it was. And then after a while you say, ‘Well, that’s quite a good tune. Let’s put some real […]
JOHN 1965: “‘The Night Before’ that Paul does is good.” PAUL circa-1994: “I would say that’s mainly mine. I don’t think John had a lot to do with that.” About “The Night Before” “The Night Before” is a song from 1965 film Help! and accompanying album Help! The song was […]
Beatles’ quotes about “A Day In The Life” JOHN 1967: “I was writing the song with the ‘Daily Mail’ propped up in front of me on the piano. I had it open to the ‘News In Brief’ or whatever they call it. There was a paragraph about four thousand holes […]
JOHN 1980: “It’s a good sounding record that means nothing.” PAUL circa-1994: “I remember ‘Hey Bulldog’ as being one of John’s songs and I helped him finish it off in the studio, but it’s mainly his vibe. There’s a little rap at the end between John and I, we went […]
Published on 1968Author: Lennon/McCartneyTrack 19 on “The Beatles – White Album“ JOHN 1980: “‘Yer Blues’ was written in India, too. Up there, trying to reach God and feeling suicidal.” About “Yer Blues” “Yer Blues” is a song featured on Beatles’ 1968 double album known as White Album. Although officially credited […]
JOHN 1972: “That’s the one song I really hate of mine. Terrible lyric.” JOHN 1980: “‘It’s Only Love’ is mine. I always thought it was a lousy song. The lyrics are abysmal. I always hated that song.” PAUL circa-1994: “Sometimes we didn’t fight it if the lyric came out rather […]
JOHN 1968: “That was pure. You see, when I wrote that I had the ‘She said she said,’ but it was just meaning nothing. It was just vaguely to do with someone who had said something like he knew what it was like to be dead, and then it was […]
PAUL 1984: “It requires a great deal of nerve to just jump up and scream like an idiot, you know? Anyway, I would often fall a little bit short, not have that little kick, that soul, and it would be John who would go, ‘Come on! You can sing it […]
About “Act Naturally” “Act Naturally”, written by Johnny Russell, with a writing credit given to Voni Morrison, tells the tale of someone who has been jilted and, because of that, can play a film part of someone sad and lonely without knowing anything about acting. The Beatles’ version of “Act […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me in my Dylan period. Part of me suspects I’m a loser, and part of me thinks I’m God almighty.” (laughs) PAUL circa-1994: “We used to listen to alot of country and western songs and they were all about sadness and ‘I lost my truck’ so it […]
RINGO 1966: “I contributed about five words to “What Goes On.’ (laughs) And I haven’t done a thing since!” JOHN 1972: “A very early song of mine. Ringo and Paul wrote a new middle-eight together when we recorded it.” JOHN 1980: “That was an early Lennon, written before the Beatles […]