JOHN 1969: “He (Paul) did quite alot of work on it. I was ill after the (automobile) accident while they did most of the track, and I believe he really ground George and Ringo into the ground recording it. We spent more money on that song than any of them […]
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JOHN 1970: “Paul had the line about ‘a little help from my friends.’ He had some kind of structure for it, and we wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original idea.” JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul, with a little help from me. ‘What do you see when you turn out […]
PAUL 1966: “I like some of the things the Animals try to do, like the song Eric Burdon wrote about places in Newcastle on the flip of one of their hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up. Places like […]
GEORGE 1969: “It is very heavy. John plays lead guitar and sings, and it’s basically just an old blues riff he’s doing, but again, it’s a very original John-type song as well… It’s a very good chord sequence he used on this particular one.” JOHN 1969: “We used a Moog […]
PAUL 1968: “It’s simple in concept because you couldn’t think of anything else to put on it. Maybe on ‘Pepper’ we would have sort of worked on it until we could find some way to put violins or trumpets in there. But I don’t think it needs it, this one. […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul… with a little help from me, I think.” PAUL circa-1994: “I could do Little Richard’s voice which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing– It’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it. […]
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 […]
JOHN 1980: “Written together in the same room.” PAUL circa-1994: “We wanted to write something a little bit darker, bluesy… It was very much co-written and we both sang it. Sometimes the harmony that I was writing in sympathy to John’s melody would take over and become a stronger melody… […]
Published on 1965Author: Lennon/McCartneyTrack 3 on “Rubber Soul“ JOHN 1980: “Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “Normally I write on guitar and have full chords, or on piano and have full chords, but this was written around two little notes, a very slim phrase– a two-note progression that I had very high on […]
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 1971: “I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing ‘All Together Now.’” PAUL circa-1994: “When they were singing a song, to encourage the audience to join in they’d say ‘All together now,’ so I just took it and read another meaning into it, of– we […]
JOHN 1963: “It came to the charts in two days. And everybody thought it was a ‘fiddle’ because our manager’s stores send in these… what is it… record returns. And everybody down south thought, ‘Aha! He’s just fiddling the charts.’ But he wasn’t.” JOHN 1972: “Paul wrote the main structure […]