Rubber Soul was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom, on EMI’s Parlophone label, accompanied by the non-album double A-side single “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out“. The original North American release, issued by Capitol Records, contains ten of the fourteen songs and two tracks withheld from […]
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Help! is the fifth studio album by the Beatles and the soundtrack to their film of the same name. It was released on 6 August 1965. Seven of the fourteen songs, including the singles “Help!” and “Ticket to Ride“, appeared in the film and take up the first side of the […]
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 […]
About “I Need You” “I Need You” was written by George Harrison and was the second composition of his to be released by the Beatles. The track appears in their film “Help!”, in a scene filmed on Salisbury Plain where the group were under military protection from a murderous cult. […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Another Girl’ is Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “It’s a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it.” About “Another Girl” The song was written […]
About “Tell Me What You See” “Tell Me What You See” appeared in 1965 on their album Help! in the United Kingdom and on Beatles VI in the United States. The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney but mainly written by Paul McCartney. Regarding the song’s authorship, McCartney said, “I seem […]
JOHN 1980: “I’d spent five hours that morning trying to wite a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music… the whole damn thing, as I lay down. So letting it go is what the whole game […]
JOHN 1980: “It has a line from an old Presley song. ‘I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man’ is a line from an old blues song that Presley did once. Just sort of a throw-away song of mine that I never thought much of… […]
About “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy” is a rock and roll song written and recorded by Larry Williams in 1958. Although identified as a “genuine rock & roll classic”, it had limited success on the record charts. In 1965, the Beatles recorded “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” in response to requests […]
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 […]
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 […]