JOHN 1980: “Paul’s. Good song.” PAUL circa-1994: “I wrote ‘Things We Said Today’ on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we’ll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future and then is nostalgic about […]
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JOHN 1980: “His song… I might have done something.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘What You’re Doing’ was a bit of filler. I think it was a little more mine than John’s… You sometimes start a song and hope the best will arrive by the time you get to the chorus, but sometimes […]
JOHN 1980: “An effort at writing ‘It Won’t Be Long’ –same ilk. C to A minor, C to A minor with me shouting.” Info about “Any Time At All” Credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, “Any Time At All” was mainly composed by John Lennon, with an instrumental middle eight by […]
JOHN 1980: “That was my first attempt at a ballad proper. That was the precursor to ‘In My Life.’ It has the same chord sequences as ‘In My Life’ –D and B minor and E minor, those kinds of things. And it’s semi-autobiographical, but not consciously. It shows that I […]
About “Everybody’s Trying to be My Baby” “Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby” is a rockabilly song often credited to Carl Perkins -who later covered it in 1956- based on a 1936 song written by singer/songwriter Rex Griffin.It was later covered by Johnny Cash. The Beatles recorded “Everybody’s Trying to […]