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 […]
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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 […]
About “Honey Don’t” “Honey Don’t” is a song written by Carl Perkins, originally released on January 1, 1956 as the B-side of the “Blue Suede Shoes” single. Both songs became rockabilly classics. Bill Dahl of Allmusic praised the song saying, “‘Honey Don’t’ actually outclasses its more celebrated platter-mate in some […]
JOHN 1980: “I wrote that for ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ but Dick Lester didn’t even want it. He resurrected ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ for that sequence instead. I like the middle-eight to that song, though that’s about all I can say about it.” About “I’ll Cry Instead” “I’ll Cry Instead” […]
Beatles quotes about “You Can’t Do That” JOHN 1964: “I’d find it a drag to play rhythm all the time, so I always work myself out something interesting to play. The best example I can think of is like I did on ‘You Can’t Do That.’ There really isn’t a […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it. The first half was Paul’s and the middle-eight is mine.” JOHN 1980: “‘And I Love Her’ is Paul again. I consider it his first ‘Yesterday.’ You know, the big ballad in ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ PAUL 1984: “It’s just a love song. It […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it. I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for ‘Help!’ because there was at one time the thought of calling the film, ‘Eight Arms To Hold You.’” JOHN 1980: “Eight Days A Week’ was never a good […]
JOHN 1980: “‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You,’ that was written for George to give him a piece of the action. I couldn’ta sung it.” PAUL circa-1994: “We wrote ‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You’ for George in the film. It was a bit of a formula song. […]
About “Rock and Roll Music” “Rock and Roll Music” is a song written and recorded (in May 1957) by Chuck Berry. It has been widely covered and is one of Berry’s most popular and enduring compositions. The Beatles performed the song in many of their early Hamburg shows, and also […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Tell Me Why…’ they needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off. It was like a black, New York girl-group song.” PAUL circa-1994: “I think alot of these songs like ‘Tell Me Why’ were based in real life experiences… but it never occured to us until […]
JOHN 1972: “I remember (Beatles music publisher) Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, ‘You’re getting better now– that was a complete story.’ Apparently, before that, he thought my songs wandered off.” JOHN 1980: “That’s my song. That’s the one where Dick James the […]
JOHN 1980: “Written together in the same room.” PAUL circa-1994: “We wanted to write something a little bit darker, bluesy… It was very much co-written and we both sang it. Sometimes the harmony that I was writing in sympathy to John’s melody would take over and become a stronger melody… […]