JOHN 1972: “John and Paul, but mainly Paul.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul completely. Maybe I had something to do with the chorus, but I don’t know. I always considered it his song.” PAUL 1984: “We recorded it in France, as I recall. Went over to the Odeon in Paris. Recorded […]
A Hard Day’s Night
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The Beatles’ quotes about “A Hard Day’s Night” RINGO 1964: “We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day…’ and I looked around […]
JOHN 1972: “A nice tune, though the middle is a bit tatty.” JOHN 1980: “‘I’ll Be Back’ is me completely. My variation of the chords in a Del Shannon song.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘I’ll Be Back’ was co-written, but it was largely John’s idea.” About “I’ll Be Back” “I’ll Be Back” […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me again… another Wilson Pickett, Motown sound… a four-in-the-bar cowbell song.” About “When I Get Home” “When I Get Home” is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and recorded by the English rock band the Beatles on 2 June 1964, during the last session […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me. Just a song– It doesn’t mean a damn thing.” Info about “I Should Have Known Better” “I Should Have Known Better” was composed by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney), and originally released by The Beatles on the United Kingdom-version of A Hard Day’s Night, their soundtrack […]
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 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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]