The Beatles released Revolver on 5 August 1966, accompanied by a double A-side single called “Eleanor Rigby” / “Yellow Submarine“. It was the Beatles’ final recording project before they retired as live performers, marking their most overt use of studio technology since their late 1965 album Rubber Soul. Since its release, it has […]
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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 ‘Taxman,’ one of his […]
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 one day. When we were working together, sometimes he came in to see me. But mainly, […]
JOHN 1972: “Me. I think Paul helped with the middle.” JOHN 1980: “Another of mine. Mainly about drugs and pills. It was about myself. I was the one that carried all the pills on tour… later on the roadies did it. We just kept them in our pockets, loose, in […]
PAUL 1966: “I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head… Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church. I don’t know why. I couldn’t think of much more so I […]
JOHN 1968: “That was pure. You see, when I wrote that I had the ‘She said she said,’ but it was just meaning nothing. It was just vaguely to do with someone who had said something like he knew what it was like to be dead, and then it was […]
JOHN 1972: “Paul. But I think maybe I helped him with some of the lyric.” JOHN 1980: “‘Good Day Sunshine’ is Paul’s. Maybe I threw in a line or something.” PAUL 1984: “Wrote that out at John’s one day… the sun was shining. Influenced by the Lovin’ Spoonful.” PAUL circa-1994: […]
JOHN 1968: “We were doing our Tamla Motown bit. You see, we’re influenced by whatever’s going. Even if we’re not influenced, we’re all going that way at a certain time.” JOHN 1972: “I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I’m not sure.” JOHN 1980: “Paul. I […]
JOHN 1980: “It’s got backwards guitars… that’s me dreaming my life away.” PAUL circa-1994: “It was a nice idea– ‘There’s nothing wrong with it. I’m not being lazy, I’m only sleeping, I’m yawning, I’m meditating, I’m having a lay-in.’ The luxury of all that was what it was all about. […]
GEORGE 1980: “…about the avalanche of thoughts that are so hard to write down or say or transmit.” About “I Want To Tell You” “I Want To Tell You” was written and sung by George Harrison and it was his third composition for Revolver, following “Taxman” and “Love You To“. It […]
George Harrison’s quotes about “Love You To” GEORGE 1966: “I play sitar on another track. I don’t care if everybody is using ’em, you know. I just play it ‘cuz I like it.” GEORGE 1980: “‘Love You To’ was one of the first tunes I wrote for sitar. ‘Norwegian Wood […]
JOHN 1972: “Another of his I really liked.” JOHN 1980: “Paul’s. One of my favorites of his. A nice piece of work.” PAUL 1984: “I wrote that on a skiing holiday in Switzerland. In a hired chalet amongst the snow.” PAUL circa-1994: “I suspect it was about another argument. I […]