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...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
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...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
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...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
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# "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"
# "[[There's a Place]]"
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...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
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| 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
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...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
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...y way of trying to make a Western pop song using some of those instruments and some of those sounds.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison}}
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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...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
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...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.
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| 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
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| 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}}
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...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]
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...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
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...erformed Beatle compositions.|quotewidth=500px|Tony Barrow, Beatles' Press and Public Relations Division, original liner notes|1964}}
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...ed earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is topical.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}
...hing like that, feedback-y and crazy. And I was showing him what I wanted, and he said, 'Well, you do it.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, [http://www.ro
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...d it was great — though if you think about it, here's us doing a song and it was really a girls' song. 'I talk about boys now!' Or it was a gay song.
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...he double use of the word 'please.' So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison.|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.143|1980}}
...nd again. We changed the tempo a little bit, we altered the words slightly and we went over the idea of featuring the harmonica, just like we did on 'Love
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{{cquote|Another of mine. Mainly about drugs and pills. It was about myself. I was the one that carried all the pills on tou
...ake. There was a fashion for it. Change your blood and have a vitamin shot and you'll feel better.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
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...ught out. George learned it, then I learned the harmony to it, then we sat and played it.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Musician Magazine''|May 1990}
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...laid the track down like that. We played the lead part later on top of it. There were a lot of things — like on a couple of dates Paul wasn't on it at
...when they do it's hard to get rid of them. You often quote other songs too and you know you've got to get rid of them, but sometimes it's very difficult t
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...ve in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in pu
...d. Against the spirit of that song, which was all super-optimistic... then there's that lovely little sardonic line. Typical John.|Paul McCartney|1984}}
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...that George Martin was offended that I used another arranger. He was busy and I was itching to get on with it; I was inspired. I think George had a lot o
...ander]], who could. The following day Paul presented me with it and said, 'Here we are. I've got a score. We can record it now.' I recorded it, with a few
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...one.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere''|2006}}
...id the same trick on 'Penny Lane' with David Mason on the piccolo trumpet, and he almost never forgave me for it because the only thing people ever asked
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...|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere''|20076}}
...ed to use the sitar and tabla on the basic track. I overdubbed the guitars and vocals later.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''I Me Mine''|1980}}
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...own-up, said, 'Yes. Sure, I think we can do that.' So that was what we did and that was where we discovered backwards guitar. It was a beautiful solo actu
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...ad'', his how-to-take-a-trip book. I did it just like he said in the book, and then I wrote 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' which is almost the first acid song, '
...dn't know what I was saying, and you just find out later. I know that when there are some lyrics I dig, I know that somewhere people will be looking at them
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Pink, brown, yellow, orange and blue, I love you
...very very simple chords, only a couple of chords, so that's what this is. There's a little subcurrent to it but it's just a singalong really. A bit of a th
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{{cquote|'Tell Me Why'... they needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off. It was like a black, New York girl-group song."|quot
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| Name = And I Love Her
| Name = And I Love Her
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...The third version appeared only on the B-side of the group's next single, and this was, simply, 'Revolution.'
...n and on, eventually running out at 10'17" with John's shout to the others and to the control room "OK, I've had enough!"|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn,
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...the accident when they did most of that track, and it really ground George and Ringo into the ground recording it, you know. I wasn't on 'Maxwell,' but I
...een, but he put guitar licks on it and he had somebody hitting iron pieces and we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album.|John
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...ce as McCartney put his all into singing the song all the way through once and once only, nearly ripping his vocal cords to shreds in the process.
...give a Lennon performance all by himself.|Geoff Emerick,''Here, There and Everywhere''|2006}}
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...wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for 'Help!' because there was at one time the thought of calling the film, 'Eight Arms To Hold You.'|
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| Released = 4 December 1964 <small>(mono and stereo)<small/>
...work. It didn't mean they were any less fun to write, it was just a craft, and this was a job to order really, which Ringo did a good job on [sic].|Paul M
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...and it rhymed with whatever I was doing. Part of me suspects I'm a loser, and part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Bea
...k it was pretty brave of John. 'I'm A Loser' was very much John's song and there may have been a dabble or two from me.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''M
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...ally take either. We rather liked this one. It was not so much a work job, there was a bit more cred about this one. It's got a good middle.|quotewidth=500p
...n them and do them. But with songs like 'Baby's In Black,' we had to learn and rehearse them.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''The Beatles Anthology'',
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| Name = Rock And Roll Music
...lightly echoed Lennon vocal, all the Beatles on their familiar instruments and George Martin again displaying his prowess as a rock 'n' roll pianist. No o
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...kit, but he could change his snare, tap a cardboard box or slap his knees. There were certain songs I had from way back that I didn't really finish up ... '
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...Peter's Woolton Parish Church, Liverpool on 6 July 1957. (Pictured: Lennon and Pete Shotton)|center|thumb|240px]]
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| alt = Black-and-white image of McCartney, in 1961.
| Born = {{birth date and age|1942|6|18|df=yes}}<br/>[[Liverpool]], England
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| alt = Black-and-white shot of George, in his 20s, with long, dark hair.
| Died = {{Death date and age|2001|11|29|1943|2|25|df=yes}}<br />{{nowrap|[[Los Angeles]], California
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| Born = {{Birth date and age|1940|7|7|df=yes}}<br />[[Liverpool]], England, UK
| associated_acts = [[The Beatles]], [[Rory Storm and the Hurricanes]], [[Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band]], [[Plastic Ono Band]
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...his. For a look at the personnel in the various pre-Beatles lineups, click here.)
...So we will tell you. It came in a vision--a man appeared in a flaming pie and said unto them "From this day on you are Beatles with an A." "Thank you, Mi
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| Released = December 4, 1964 <small>(mono and stereo)<small/>
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
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