Beatles quotes about “I Call Your Name” JOHN 1980: “That was my song. When there was no Beatles and no group, I just had it around. It was my effort as a kind of blues originally, and then I wrote the middle-eight just to stick it in the album when […]
The Beatles’ Songs
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Info about “Words of Love” The Beatles recorded a cover version of the song on October 18, 1964 for the UK album Beatles for Sale. It first appeared in the U.S. on the album Beatles VI. It was also on a 7-inch extended play, Beatles for Sale No. 2, released […]
Beatles quotes about “Taxman” GEORGE 1980: “‘Taxman’ was when I first realized that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is typical.” JOHN 1980: “I remember the day he (George) called to ask for help on […]
Published on 1966 Author: Lennon/McCartney Track 5 on “Revolver“ Beatles quotes about “Here, There And Everywhere” JOHN 1972: “This was a great one of his.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul’s song completely, I believe. And one of my favorite songs of the Beatles.” PAUL 1984: “I wrote that by John’s pool […]
Info about “Mr. Moonlight” The first known recording of the song was by blues pianist Piano Red, recording as “Dr. Feelgood and the Interns”. It was released as a b-side of a minor rhythm & blues hit single (titled “Dr. Feelgood”) in 1962. The record became something of a cult […]
Beatles quotes about “Mean Mr. Mustard” JOHN 1980: “I’d read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who hid his five-pound notes, not up his nose but ‘somewhere else.’ No, it had nothing to do with cocaine.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘Mean Mr Mustard’ was very John. I liked that. A […]
Beatles quotes about “Can’t Buy Me Love” JOHN 1972: “John and Paul, but mainly Paul.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul completely. Maybe I had something to do with the chorus, but I don’t know. I always considered it his song.” PAUL 1984: “We recorded it in France, as I recall. Went […]
Beatles quotes about “Rain” JOHN 1966: “After we’d done the session on that particular song– it ended at about four or five in the morning– I went home with a tape to see what else you could do with it. And I was sort of very tired, you know, not […]
George Harrison’s quote about “Here Comes The Sun” GEORGE 1980: “…written at a time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen– all this signing accounts, and ‘sign this’ and ‘sign that.’ Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by […]
About “Wait” The songwriting credit is Lennon/McCartney, and is one of the real joint efforts between the two (Lennon wrote the verses and refrain in F# minor, and McCartney wrote the bridge in A major). The lyrics, describing the singer’s anxieties about his relationship with his girl while he is […]
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 and […]
John 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: […]