-
...lot of people were fans of Little Richard so I used to sing his stuff, but there came a point when I wanted to do one of my own, so I wrote 'I'm Down.'|quot
2 KB (217 words) - 16:37, 7 August 2011
-
...when you grow up, you calm down a little. Anyway, I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for help.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
{{cquote|John wrote that... well, John and I wrote it at his house in Weybridge for the film. I think the title was ou
2 KB (350 words) - 09:19, 14 August 2014
-
{{cquote|That's mine. Including the guitar lick, the guitar break, and the whole bit. It's just a rock 'n roll song. Day trippers are people who g
{{cquote|Acid was coming on the scene, and we'd often do these songs about 'the girl who thought she was it.' Mainly t
2 KB (306 words) - 14:45, 7 August 2011
-
| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Chris Thomas]]
| Next single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" <br />(1970)
3 KB (560 words) - 20:58, 7 August 2011
-
...e a monster that sucks . . . And all things like that, they just took them and never credited. They wanted another song; I knocked off "Hey Bulldog." It's
...That was the basic idea. And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|19
5 KB (852 words) - 17:56, 7 August 2011
-
...ong down to John's house in Weybridge. We sat around, laughing, got stoned and finished it off.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1966}}
...ristol. I was wandering round Bristol one day and saw a shop called Rigby. And I think Eleanor was from Eleanor Bron, the actress we worked with in the fi
4 KB (693 words) - 12:32, 5 July 2013
-
...which is a long tunnel through which the dockers go to work on Merseyside, and Penny Lane near my old home.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1966}}
...d people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was just reliving childhood.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}
4 KB (673 words) - 17:11, 7 August 2011
-
...a very complicated and extremely good piano track played entirely by Paul, and a measure of his great musicianship. Paul could play the drums, technically
3 KB (415 words) - 16:49, 7 August 2011
-
{{cquote|I went back [to India] in 1967 to record the ''Wonderwall'' album, and also did the ''Inner Light'' track...|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig
...very happy, it is a moving song and may it move the souls of millions; and there is more to come, as you are only beginning on the great journey'.
4 KB (588 words) - 14:23, 7 August 2011
-
...." I always thought it was about me and Yoko, but he said it was about him and his.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}
...ion.' Some of the words were: 'The movement you need is on your shoulder,' and John was saying, 'It's great!' I'm saying, 'It's crazy, it doesn't make any
4 KB (648 words) - 09:47, 18 May 2012
-
{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the wa
...rian Epstein had stopped us from saying anything about Vietnam or the war. And he wouldn't allow questions about it. But on one of the last tours, I said,
2 KB (335 words) - 17:22, 1 December 2018
-
| Next single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"/ "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br />(1969)
{{cquote|We'd been talking about it since we recorded it, and we kept saying 'That's a single.' Eventually we got so fed up talking about
2 KB (328 words) - 15:07, 7 August 2011
-
| Next single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"/ "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br />(1969)
...t was a good song. We recorded it in the basement of Apple for 'Let It Be' and later did it up on the roof for the film. We went through it quite alot for
2 KB (357 words) - 14:52, 7 August 2011
-
| Name = Ballad of John and Yoko
| Cover = ballad-of-john-and-yoko.jpg
3 KB (485 words) - 14:31, 7 August 2011
-
| Cover = ballad-of-john-and-yoko.jpg
| A-side = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"
2 KB (201 words) - 17:09, 7 August 2011
-
| Last single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]" / "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br/>(1969)
...ght away while you're still in the same mood.' Sometimes you go back to it and you're in a whole different state of mind. So now, I do try to finish them
3 KB (521 words) - 17:29, 7 August 2011
-
| Name = The Long and Winding Road
| Cover = the-long-and-winding-road.jpg
3 KB (418 words) - 17:40, 7 August 2011
-
| A-side = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]"
| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Phil Spector]]
1 KB (164 words) - 15:05, 7 August 2011
-
| Last single = "[[Yesterday]]" (UK-1976)<br/>-<br/> "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]"<br/>(1970)
{{cquote|I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I'm not sure.|quotewidth=500px|John Lenno
3 KB (483 words) - 16:53, 2 December 2012
-
...e echo at all. So I thought, "Oh, well, ''we'll'' do one like that, then." And I had this song called "Helter Skelter", which is just a ridiculous song. S
...sed to have a laugh about this, that or the other, in a light-hearted way, and some intellectual would read us, some symbolic youth generation wants to se
5 KB (870 words) - 15:39, 7 August 2011
-
...n almighty amount of volume, twice the speed of how they'd done it before, and said, 'This is ''it''! Come ''on''!' He was really aggravated. That was the
...|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere'' with John Massey|2006}}
6 KB (1,027 words) - 17:00, 7 August 2011
-
...ant to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK) <br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
...is like I did on 'You Can't Do That.' There really isn't a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist on that, because I feel the rhythm guitarist role sounds
3 KB (398 words) - 16:01, 12 October 2012
-
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
...today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future and then is nostalgic about the moment we're living now, which is quite a good
2 KB (220 words) - 20:33, 20 August 2011
-
| Next single = "[[And I Love Her]]"<br/>(US-1964)<br/>—<br/>"[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]"<br/>
...a song with harmonica we feature during the opening tram sequences — and 'Tell Me Why', a shuffle number that comes at the end of the film.|quotewid
3 KB (491 words) - 16:40, 20 August 2011
-
| B-side = "[[This Boy]]" (UK)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"(US)
...ant to Hold Your Hand" / "[[This Boy]]"(UK 1963)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
3 KB (411 words) - 07:39, 12 May 2014
-
...s a period when I thought I didn't write melodies... that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n roll. But of course, when I think o
{{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings)
3 KB (385 words) - 20:51, 3 June 2014
-
| Name = I Saw Her Standing There
| This single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "I Saw Her Standing There"<br/>(US 1964)<br/>-<br/>"[[This Boy]]" <br/>(UK 1963)
2 KB (335 words) - 15:47, 7 August 2011
-
...Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) <br/>-<br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
...e Loves You' then. And we just sat up in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it, you know.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1963}}
4 KB (741 words) - 20:55, 3 June 2014
-
...Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) <br/>-<br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
...and get more ideas. We wrote 'I'll Get You,' which is the B-side, first. And then 'She Loves You' came after that... We got ideas from that. Then we re
3 KB (405 words) - 17:54, 27 August 2011
-
....' 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
...know it was mine. (humms melody) And then after that we just took it from there. We were just writing the next single. It was far bluesier than that when w
2 KB (320 words) - 15:06, 7 August 2011
-
{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the wa
...rian Epstein had stopped us from saying anything about Vietnam or the war. And he wouldn't allow questions about it. But on one of the last tours, I said,
2 KB (232 words) - 17:58, 7 August 2011
-
{{cquote|George gave Derek Taylor a copy and asked him to hand deliver it to us, before the release of the song, along w
...he thing that hurts us most is George Harrison's knock at us as musicians. And I would like to ask this. If we have made such a disgusting mess of his bra
3 KB (519 words) - 14:30, 27 August 2011
-
...We wanted to think of a good end and we had to decide what sort of backing and instruments would sound good. Like all our songs, they never become an enti
...and I sang half. I needed a middle-eight for it, but Paul already had one there. It's a bit of ''2001'', you know.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|November, 1
5 KB (1,011 words) - 10:43, 11 September 2011
-
...f those ones that he'd had, that we've all got, really — half a song. And this was just one of those that was quite a hit with us. We used to do it w
...ream of writing a song like that. There's some things I never think about, and that's one of them.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
3 KB (528 words) - 17:51, 7 August 2011
-
# "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"
# "[[There's a Place]]"
3 KB (370 words) - 14:28, 7 August 2011
-
...y the Horse. The band would start at ten to six. All at Bishopsgate. Look, there's the bill — with Mr. Kite topping it. I hardly made up a word, just c
...t this thing that we found, which said, 'Being for the benefit of Mr Kite' and it was virtually all the lyrics to the song. I think he (John) was just adv
7 KB (1,189 words) - 13:16, 21 November 2012
-
| Recorded = 9 and 21 February 1967,<br/>[[Abbey Road]] and Regent Sound studios, London
...u can come.' So he did, he came to the session and he did sit very quietly and I never saw him after that. I introduced him to the guys. They said, 'Who's
5 KB (970 words) - 14:48, 7 August 2011
-
...out 'a little help from my friends.' He had some kind of structure for it, and we wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original idea.|quotewidth=500p
...ly beans and toys on stage; and I thought that that if we ever did get out there again, I was not going to be bombarded with tomatoes.|Ringo Starr, ''The Be
3 KB (613 words) - 12:05, 14 August 2011
-
...y way of trying to make a Western pop song using some of those instruments and some of those sounds.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison}}
This was during the ''Sargeant Pepper'' period, and after I had been taking sitar lessons with Ravi Shankar for some time, so I
5 KB (827 words) - 17:55, 7 August 2011
-
| Recorded = 23 February and 21 March 1967<br>[[Abbey Road Studios]], London
...he said, 'That would be a good idea for a song, do you mind if I use it?' And that was that. Off he went.|quotewidth=500px|Meta Davies, St. John's Wood's
5 KB (841 words) - 16:54, 7 August 2011
-
| Last album = ''[[Yesterday and Today]]''<br />(1966)
...the engineers [at Abbey Road] had been using the same [methods] for years and years.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, ''The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook T
7 KB (1,144 words) - 15:13, 30 October 2014
-
| Next album = ''[[Yesterday and Today]]''<br />(1966)
...their own right. We were thinking about the album as an entity of its own and ''Rubber Soul'' was the first one to emerge in this way.|quotewidth=500px|G
5 KB (823 words) - 20:09, 1 September 2011
-
{{cquote|The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And what a fall it was ... The whole boring saga confirmed a long held suspicio
...we got. The mistake was that too many people were looking for a plot when there wasn't one. It was just a series of unconnected events, which we thought wo
6 KB (898 words) - 17:11, 7 December 2013
-
...st 1969, at [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]], [[Olympic Studios|Olympic]] and [[Trident Studios]], London
...ty (song)|Her Majesty]]" is not listed, as it was with some later reissues and the Compact Disc version, making it a hidden track.
5 KB (784 words) - 12:08, 1 December 2012
-
| Recorded = 11–14 August and 29 September – 26 October 1964, [[Abbey Road Studios]], [[Londo
...that there need not be that great a gap between his 'literary' outpourings and lyric writing.|quotewidth=500px|Steve Turner, ''A Hard Day's Write: The Sto
6 KB (883 words) - 09:34, 13 August 2011
-
| Recorded = 30 May – 14 October 1968,<br>[[Abbey Road Studios]] and [[Trident Studios]], London
...y have two songs on every album," and that wouldn't have been fun for Paul and I. It had to break.|John Lennon|1970}}
9 KB (1,475 words) - 12:09, 1 December 2012
-
...ting years. This was captured in four takes although the best was take one and again it was left to be given a faded ending at the remix stage.|quotewidth
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/chains Great article on this Goffin/King song and its history]
1 KB (171 words) - 14:40, 7 August 2011
-
...Misery,' but it isn't as slow as it sounds. It moves along at quite a pace and we think Helen will make a pretty good job of it. We've also done a number
...And in the end Kenny Lynch did it. Kenny used to come out on tour with us, and he used to sing it. That was one of his minor hits.|quotewidth=500px|Paul M
3 KB (406 words) - 16:56, 7 August 2011
-
| Recorded = 29 January – 3 June 1964 at [[Abbey Road Studios]], London, and Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris
...erformed Beatle compositions.|quotewidth=500px|Tony Barrow, Beatles' Press and Public Relations Division, original liner notes|1964}}
3 KB (398 words) - 17:43, 20 August 2011
-
#"[[Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey]]"
...idea. When we got into "Guitar Gently Weeps," we recorded it one night and there was such a lack of enthusiasm. So I went home really disappointed, because
6 KB (1,019 words) - 12:05, 1 December 2012
