GEORGE 1969: “Revolution 9 wasn’t particularly like a Beatles number… it worked quite well in the context of all those different songs. I find it heavy to listen to myself– in fact, I don’t, really.” JOHN 1971: “I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution, but I […]
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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 […]
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 1972: “Paul. One of his best.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul. He even recorded it by himself in another room. That’s how it was getting in those days. We came in, and he’d made the whole record. Him drumming, him playing the piano, him singing. But he couldn’t… maybe he […]
JOHN 1972: “Paul. I think I might have helped with some of the lyrics, Yes, I did. But it was mainly Paul’s tune.” JOHN 1980: “‘Paperback Writer’ is son of ‘Day Tripper’ …meaning a rock ‘n roll song with a guitar lick on a fuzzy loud guitar.” PAUL circa-1994: “I […]
The Beatles’ quotes about “Do You Want to Know a Secret” JOHN 1980: “Well, I can’t say I wrote it ‘for’ George. My mother was always… she was a good comedienne and a singer. Not professional, but she used to get up in pubs and things like that. She had […]
PAUL 1964: “Let’s see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house when we were walking along one day. We knew we had to really get this song going, so we got down in the basement of this disused house and there was […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Thank You Girl’ was one of our efforts at writing a single that didn’t work. So it became a B-side or an album track.” PAUL 1988: “We knew that if we wrote a song called, ‘Thank You Girl’ that alot of the girls who wrote us fan letters […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it. This was a knock-off between Paul and me.” JOHN 1980: “‘Little Child’ was another effort of Paul and I to write a song for somebody else. It was probably Ringo.” PAUL circa-1994: “Certain songs were inspirational and you just followed that. ‘Little Child’ […]
JOHN 1980: “Now that’s Paul. Another good lyric. Shows he’s capable of writing complete songs.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘Fool On The Hill’ was mine and I think I was writing about someone like the Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn’t taken too seriously… I […]
About “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” On the homonymous album, the song “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” appears twice: as the opening track (followed by “With a Little Help from My Friends“), and as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)“, the penultimate track (followed by “A […]
JOHN 1972: “I remember (Beatles music publisher) Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, ‘You’re getting better now– that was a complete story.’ Apparently, before that, he thought my songs wandered off.” JOHN 1980: “That’s my song. That’s the one where Dick James the […]