JOHN 1980: “I’d read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who hid his five-pound notes, not up his nose but ‘somewhere else.’ No, it had nothing to do with cocaine.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘Mean Mr Mustard’ was very John. I liked that. A nice quirky song.” About “Mean Mr. […]
Abbey Road
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GEORGE 1980: “…written at a time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen– all this signing accounts, and ‘sign this’ and ‘sign that.’ Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you really deserve it. […]
PAUL 1969: “That was just… I don’t know. I was in Scotland, and I was just writing this little tune. I can never tell, like, how tunes come out. I just wrote it as a joke.” About “Her Majesty” Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is a […]
GEORGE 1969: “Another very melodic tune of Paul’s which is also quite nice.” JOHN 1969: “It was up to Paul where he went with violins and what he did with them, and I think he wanted a stright kind of backing– nothing freaky.” PAUL 1969: “I was just playing the […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Oh! Darling’ was a great one of Paul’s that he didn’t sing too well. I always thought that I could’ve done it better– it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he’s going to sing it. If he’d had any sense he […]
JOHN 1980: “That was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England’s answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure… I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment, and I had a […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul again, the unfinished song, right? Just a piece at the end. He had a line in it, (sings) ‘And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make,’ which is a very cosmic, philosophical line– which again proves that if he […]
JOHN 1969: “We just started joking, you know, singing ‘quando para mucho.’ So we just made up… Paul knew a few Spanish words from school, you know. So we just strung any Spanish words that sounded vaguely like something. And of course we got ‘chicka ferdy’ in. That’s a Liverpool […]
GEORGE 1969: “‘Octopus’s Garden’ is Ringo’s song. It’s only the second song Ringo has ever written, mind you, and it’s lovely. Ringo gets bored with just playing drums all the time, so at home he sometimes plays a bit of piano, but unfortunately he only knows about three chords. He […]
GEORGE 1969: “A very strange song of Paul’s with terrific lyrics, but it’s hard to explain what they’re all about.” JOHN 1980: “He wrote that when we were in New York announcing Apple and we first met Linda. Maybe she’s the one that came in the window.” About “She Came […]
GEORGE 1969: “It does two verses of one tune, and then the bridge is almost like a different song altogether, so it’s quite melodic.” PAUL 1988: “We wanted to dabble, and I had a bit of fun making some of the songs fit together, with key changes (into the long […]
JOHN 1969: “‘Come Together’ changed at the session. We said, ‘Let’s slow it down. Let’s do this to it, let’s do that to it,’ and it ends up however it comes out. I just said, ‘Look, I’ve got no arrangement for you, but you know how I want it.’ I […]