GEORGE 1980: “The ‘you’ in ‘Long Long Long’ is God. I can’t recall much about it except the chords, which I think were coming from (Dylan’s) ‘Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’– D to E minor, A, and D– those three chords and the way they moved.” About “Long, Long, […]
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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 […]
Published on 1968Author: Lennon/McCartneyTrack 19 on “The Beatles – White Album“ JOHN 1980: “‘Yer Blues’ was written in India, too. Up there, trying to reach God and feeling suicidal.” About “Yer Blues” “Yer Blues” is a song featured on Beatles’ 1968 double album known as White Album. Although officially credited […]
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: “That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and we’re leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him, ‘Sexy Sadie,’ instead of (sings) ‘Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool…’ I was […]
PAUL 1968: “We’re not just completely rock & roll. We’re not just completely one kind of group. ‘Cuz like, when we played in Hamburg, we didn’t just do rock all evening ‘cuz we had to have these sort of fat old businessmen coming in and saying… (jokingly) or THIN old […]