About “Wait” The songwriting credit is Lennon/McCartney, and is one of the real joint efforts between the two (Lennon wrote the verses and refrain in F# minor, and McCartney wrote the bridge in A major). The lyrics, describing the singer’s anxieties about his relationship with his girl while he is […]
Rubber Soul
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JOHN 1980: “I’d spent five hours that morning trying to wite a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music… the whole damn thing, as I lay down. So letting it go is what the whole game […]
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 1972: “Both of us. I wrote the middle with him.” PAUL 1977: “‘Michelle’ was like a joke French tune for when you go to a party or something. That’s all it was. And then after a while you say, ‘Well, that’s quite a good tune. Let’s put some real […]
RINGO 1966: “I contributed about five words to “What Goes On.’ (laughs) And I haven’t done a thing since!” JOHN 1972: “A very early song of mine. Ringo and Paul wrote a new middle-eight together when we recorded it.” JOHN 1980: “That was an early Lennon, written before the Beatles […]
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 […]
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 […]
JOHN 1980: “‘The Word’ was written together (with Paul), but it’s mainly mine. You read the words, it’s all about gettin’ smart. It’s the marijuana period. It’s love. It’s a love and peace thing. The word is ‘love,’ right?” PAUL circa-1994: “We smoked a bit of pot, then we wrote […]
George Harrison’s quote about “Think For Yourself” GEORGE 1980: “‘Think For Yourself’ must be written about somebody from the sound of it– but all this time later I don’t quite recall who inspired that tune. Probably the government.” About “Think For Yourself” “Think For Yourself” was written by George Harrison, […]
Published on 1965Author: Lennon/McCartneyTrack 3 on “Rubber Soul“ JOHN 1980: “Paul.” PAUL circa-1994: “Normally I write on guitar and have full chords, or on piano and have full chords, but this was written around two little notes, a very slim phrase– a two-note progression that I had very high on […]
JOHN 1980: “It was the first song I wrote that was consciously about my life. (Sings) ‘There are places I’ll remember/ All my life though some have changed…’ Before, we were just writing songs a la Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly — pop songs with no more thought to them than […]
JOHN 1980: “Paul. He must have had an argument with Jane Asher.” PAUL circa-1994: “As is one’s wont in relationships, you will from time to time argue or not see eye to eye on things, and a couple of the songs around this period were that kind of thing… I […]