About “Slow Down” “Slow Down” is a 12-bar blues written and performed by Larry Williams. Released as a single in 1958, it was a Rhythm and Blues hit that influenced the growing Rock & Roll movement of the time. It was released as a 7″ single (45RPM). The A-Side was […]
1962 – 1965
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PAUL 1964: “Let’s see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house when we were walking along one day. We knew we had to really get this song going, so we got down in the basement of this disused house and there was […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Thank You Girl’ was one of our efforts at writing a single that didn’t work. So it became a B-side or an album track.” PAUL 1988: “We knew that if we wrote a song called, ‘Thank You Girl’ that alot of the girls who wrote us fan letters […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul… with a little help from me, I think.” PAUL circa-1994: “I could do Little Richard’s voice which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing– It’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it. […]
JOHN 1963: “It came to the charts in two days. And everybody thought it was a ‘fiddle’ because our manager’s stores send in these… what is it… record returns. And everybody down south thought, ‘Aha! He’s just fiddling the charts.’ But he wasn’t.” JOHN 1972: “Paul wrote the main structure […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me trying a rewrite of ‘This Boy,’ but it didn’t quite work.” PAUL circa-1994: “I was there writing it with John, but it was his inspiration that I helped him finish off. ‘Yes It Is’ is a very fine song of John’s.” About “Yes It Is” Written […]