JOHN 1980: “That was my song. When there was no Beatles and no group, I just had it around. It was my effort as a kind of blues originally, and then I wrote the middle-eight just to stick it in the album when it came out years later. The first […]
Past Masters Volume 1
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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 […]
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. […]
What the Beatles said about “She Loves You” JOHN 1963: “We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually.” PAUL 1963: “John and I wrote it together. We were in a van up in Newcastle somewhere, and we’d just gone over to our hotel. I originally got an idea […]
About “Sie Liebt Dich” “She Loves You” is also unusual in that, under the title “Sie liebt dich”, it is one of two songs rerecorded by the Beatles in German (the other being “Komm, gib mir deine Hand”). “Sie liebt dich” was released in Germany and in the USA (as […]
JOHN 1964: “George and I play the same bit on the guitar together– that’s the bit that’ll set your feet a-tapping, as the reviews say. The middle-eight is the most tuneful part, to me, because it’s a typical Beatles bit.” JOHN 1972: “This was the first time feedback was used […]
About “Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand” “I Want To Hold Your Hand” was recorded in German as “Komm, gib mir deine Hand” (“Come, give me your hand”), one of only two times the Beatles recorded a song entirely in a language other than English (the other being “She Loves You“). […]
RINGO 1964: “I’m featured on it. Actually it was written by Carl Perkins about six years ago. Carl came to the session. I felt very embarrassed. I did it just two days before I went in the hospital (with tonsilitis) so please forgive my throat.” About “Matchbox” As fans of […]
About “Bad Boy” “Bad Boy” is one of several Larry Williams songs the Beatles recorded during their career, a rock and roll song with a lively, energetic tempo typical of Williams’ style. The group recorded it on May 10, 1965, (William’s birthday), along with his song “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy“, which […]
JOHN 1980: “Just my attempt at writing one of those three-part harmony Smokey Robinson songs. Nothing in the lyrics… just a sound and a harmony. There was a period when I thought I didn’t write melodies… that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock ‘n roll. But […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s Paul with some contribution from me on lines, probably. We put in the words ‘turns me on.’ We were so excited to say ‘turn me on’ –you know, about marijuana and all that… using it as an expression.” PAUL circa-1994: “This was my attempt at a bluesy […]
About “Long Tall Sally” “Long Tall Sally” is a rock and roll song written by Little Richard, Enotris Johnson and Robert “Bumps” Blackwell. The Beatles admired Little Richard and regularly performed his songs during their live performances. From their earliest days as the Quarrymen in 1957 until their last public […]