GEORGE 1977: “If Paul had written a song, he’d learn all the parts and then come in the studio and say ‘Do this.’ He’d never give you the opportunity to come out with something. But on ‘Drive My Car’ I just played the line, which is really like a lick […]
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JOHN 1972: “Paul. But I think maybe I helped him with some of the lyric.” JOHN 1980: “‘Good Day Sunshine’ is Paul’s. Maybe I threw in a line or something.” PAUL 1984: “Wrote that out at John’s one day… the sun was shining. Influenced by the Lovin’ Spoonful.” PAUL circa-1994: […]
PAUL 1967: “It’s really about the fans who hang around outside your door day and night. ‘See the people standing there/ They worry me, and never win/ And wonder why they don’t get in my door.’ If they only knew the best way to get in is not to do […]
JOHN 1972: “Me. Yoko helped me with this one.” JOHN 1980: “Julia was my mother. But it was sort of a combination of Yoko and my mother blended into one. That was written in India… We wrote tons of songs in India.” PAUL circa-1994: “The interesting thing for me on […]
JOHN 1980: “I wrote that for ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ but Dick Lester didn’t even want it. He resurrected ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ for that sequence instead. I like the middle-eight to that song, though that’s about all I can say about it.” About “I’ll Cry Instead” “I’ll Cry Instead” […]
JOHN 1980: “It was kind of a John song, more than a Paul song… but it was written together.” PAUL 1988: “John and I were a songwriting team, and what songwriting teams did in those days was wrote for everyone. ‘Misery’ was for Helen Shapiro, and she turned it down. […]
PAUL 1969: (describing a guitar lick for the middle-eight, during the recording sessions) “It’s coming down too fast– the note. There shouldn’t be any recognizable jumps. Falling… Falling…” About “I’ve Got A Feeling” “I’ve Got a Feeling” was featured on Beatles’ final studio album, Let It Be, released in 1970. […]
JOHN 1968: “‘Mr. Kite’ was a straight lift. I had all the words staring me in the face one day when I was looking for a song. It was from this old poster I’d bought at an antique shop. We’d been down to Surrey or somewhere filming a piece. There […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul doing his usual job of producing what George Martin used to call a ‘potboiler.’ I helped with a couple of the lyrics.” PAUL 1988: “I wrote it with John. We sagged off school and wrote it on guitars. I remember I had the lyrics, ‘Just seventeen/Never […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me, writing about this dream girl– the one that hadn’t come yet. It was Yoko.” PAUL circa-1994: “It was John’s original idea, but it was very much co-written. I remember writing ‘the pain and pleasure,’ and ‘a man must break his back.’ …It was amusing to see […]
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 […]
JOHN 1968: “We were doing our Tamla Motown bit. You see, we’re influenced by whatever’s going. Even if we’re not influenced, we’re all going that way at a certain time.” JOHN 1972: “I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I’m not sure.” JOHN 1980: “Paul. I […]