Beatles quotes about “From Me To You” PAUL 1964: “‘From Me To You.’ It could be done as an old Ragtime tune… especially the middle-eight. And so, we’re not writing the tunes in any particular idiom. In five years time, we may arrange the tunes differently. (jokingly) But we’ll probably […]
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JOHN 1980: “‘Every Little Thing’ is his song. Maybe I threw in something.” PAUL circa-1994: “‘Every Little Thing,’ like most of the stuff I did, was my attempt at the next single… but it became an album filler rather than the great almighty single. It didn’t have quite what was […]
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 […]
JOHN 1967: “I often sit at the piano, working at songs with the television on low in the background. If I’m a bit low and not getting much done, the words from the telly come through. That’s when I heard the words, ‘Good Morning Good Morning.’” JOHN 1968: “We write […]
PAUL 1968: “It says ‘Born a poor young country boy’ and I was born in Woolton hospital actually– so it’s a dirty lie.” JOHN 1980: “Paul. That was from a lecture of Maharishi where he was talking about nature, and I had a piece called ‘I’m Just A Child Of […]
JOHN 1980: “‘Another Girl’ is Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “It’s a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it.” About “Another Girl” The song was written […]
PAUL 1968: “What happened was ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ was on television. That’s an old rock film with Little Richard and Fats Domino and Eddie Cochran and a few others… and we wanted to see it, so we started recording at five o’clock. And we said, ‘We’ll do something, […]
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 1972: “This was one of his first biggies.” JOHN 1980: “‘All My Loving’ is Paul, I regret to say. Because it’s a damn fine piece of work. But I play a pretty mean guitar in back.” PAUL 1984: “Yeah, I wrote that one. It was the first song I […]
JOHN 1963: “The B-side of ‘She Loves You’ was meant to be the A-side.” PAUL 1963: “If we write one song, then we can get going after that and get more ideas. We wrote ‘I’ll Get You,’ which is the B-side, first. And then ‘She Loves You’ came after that. […]
PAUL 1968: “Chuck Berry once did a song called ‘Back In The USA,’ which is very American, very Chuck Berry. Very sort of, uhh… you know, you’re serving in the army, and when I get back home I’m gonna kiss the ground. And you know– Can’t wait to get back […]
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 […]