Music video by The Beatles performing Yellow Submarine. PAUL 1966: “It’s a happy place, that’s all. You know, it was just… We were trying to write a children’s song. That was the basic idea. And there’s nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of […]
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JOHN 1980: “I might’ve given him a couple of lyrics, but it’s his song, his lyric.” PAUL 1984: “A fella who used to hang around the clubs used to say, (Jamaican accent) ‘Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on,’ and he got annoyed when I did a song of it, ‘cuz he […]
PAUL 1968: “Umm, that came about just ‘cuz I’d read a review of a record which said, ‘And this group really got us wild, there’s echo on everything, they’re screaming their heads off.’ And I just remember thinking, ‘Oh, it’d be great to do one. Pity they’ve done it. Must […]
PAUL 1967: “Everyone keeps preaching that the best way is to be ‘open’ when writing for teenagers. Then when we do we get criticized. Surely the word ‘knickers’ can’t offend anyone. Shakespeare wrote words alot more naughtier than knickers!” JOHN 1967: “We chose the word (knickers) because it is a […]
PAUL 1968: “The idea of ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’ is from an advert in an American paper. It said, Happiness is a warm gun, and it was ‘Get ready for the long hot summer with a rifle,’ you know, ‘Come and buy them now!’ It was an advert in […]
JOHN 1980: “It has a line from an old Presley song. ‘I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man’ is a line from an old blues song that Presley did once. Just sort of a throw-away song of mine that I never thought much of… […]
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 […]
RINGO 1968: “Everybody thinks Paul wrote ‘Goodnight’ for me to sing, but it was John who wrote it for me. He’s got a lot of soul, John has.” PAUL 1968: “John wrote it, mainly. It’s his tune, uhh, which is surprising for John– ‘cuz he doesn’t normally write this kind […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me trying to do Smokey Robinson again.” About “All I’ve got to Do” It was one of three songs Lennon wrote solo for With The Beatles, with “It Won’t Be Long” and “Not a Second Time.” Lennon said that it was written specifically for the American market; the […]
PAUL 1969: “We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air. We started to write words there and then… When we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to rollercoast by.” JOHN 1980: “‘Get Back’ is Paul. […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me trying to do something. I don’t remember.” (laughs) PAUL 1984: “Influenced by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.” About “Not a Second Time” “Not a Second Time” is a song by John Lennon (credited to McCartney/Lennon) performed by The Beatles on their album With the Beatles. Lennon […]
JOHN 1980: “That was just a sort of nice line that I made into a song. It was about me and Yoko. Everybody seemed to be paranoid except for us two, who were in the glow of love. Everything is clear and open when you’re in love. Everybody was sort […]