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File:I-should-have-known-better.jpg

2009-04-15T14:12:31Z

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2009-04-15T14:09:16Z

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I Should Have Known Better

2009-04-15T14:08:05Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = I Should Have Known Better
| Cover = i-should-have-known-better.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Yesterday]]"
| Released = 8 March 1976
| Format = [[Vinyl Record|7" & 12"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 25-26 February 1964
| Genre = Pop
| Length = 2:44
| Label = [[Parlophone]]/[[EMI]] (UK) [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Let It Be]]"/"[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" (1970) - "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/"[[You Can't Do That]]" (1964)
| This single = "[[Yesterday]]"/"I Should Have Known Better" (1965)
| Next single = "[[Back in the USSR]]" (1976) - "[[I'll Cry Instead]]" /"[[I'm Happy Just to Dance With You]]" (1965)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|That's me. Just a song-- It doesn't mean a damn thing.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

[[I Should Have Known Better - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch a music video of I Should Have Known Better'''

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[[Category:Singles]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:A Hard Day's Night (album)]]

File:From-me-to-you.jpg

2009-04-15T00:30:08Z

Mspoole:

From Me to You

2009-04-15T00:29:23Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = From Me to You | Cover = from-me-to-you.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | B-side = "I'll Get You" | Released =23 August 19...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = From Me to You
| Cover = from-me-to-you.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[I'll Get You]]"
| Released =23 August 1963 (UK) 16 September 1963 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 1 July 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:17
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5055 (UK) [[Swan]] 4152 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Please Please Me]]"/"[[Ask Me Why]]" (1963)
| This single = "From Me to You"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
| Next single = "[[She Loves You]]"/"[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|'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 write the same old rubbish!!|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

{{cquote|We were writing it in a car, I think... and I think the first line was mine. I mean, I 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 we wrote it. The notes, today.. you could rearrange it pretty funky|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|The thing I liked about 'From Me To You' was it had a very complete middle. It went to a surprising place. The opening chord of the middle section of that song heralded a new batch for me. That was a pivotal song. Our songwriting lifted a little with that song. It was very much co-written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[From Me to You - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing From Me to You live at the Prince of Whales Theatre:'''

{{#ev:youtube|6O8YvKHRMrw}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Please Please Me (album)]]

She Loves You

2009-04-14T23:49:56Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = She Loves You
| Cover = she-loves-you.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[I'll Get You]]"
| Released =23 August 1963 (UK) 16 September 1963 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 1 July 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:17
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5055 (UK) [[Swan]] 4152 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[From Me to You]]"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
| This single = "She Loves You" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) - "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|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 of doing one of those answering songs, where a couple of us sing about 'she loves you' ...and the other one sort of says the 'yes, yes' bit. You know, 'yeah yeah' answering whoever is saying it. But we decided that was a crummy idea anyway. But we had the idea to write a song called 'She 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}}

{{cquote|'Yeah.' That's sort of the main catch phrase from 'She Loves You.' We'd written the song, and then suddenly realized we needed more... so we added 'yeah, yeah, yeah' and it caught on.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|We arrange them in the studio normally, you know. We get a basic idea, because you write a song and you get a sound in your head that you think it's gonna sound like. And it usually turns out different, you know. We've given up trying to plan it too much before we go in. None of us can read music. Our A&R man (George Martin) can read music, so sometimes he'll say 'That note's just... it doesn't work, you know. You can't have it.' And we have to go into detail with the piano and everything and work it out and say 'It DOES work. You know, we're singing it. It works.' And sometimes he's right, sometimes he's wrong, you know. (giggling) But it usually all works out in the end.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1964}}

{{cquote|It was written together (with Paul) and I don't remember how. I remember it was Paul's idea-- instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. The 'Woooo' was taken from the Isley Brothers 'Twist And Shout,' which we stuck into everything.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Occasionally, we'd overrule George Martin, like on 'She Loves You,' we end on a sixth chord, a very jazzy sort of thing. And he said, 'Oh, you can't do that! A sixth chord? It's too jazzy.' We just said, 'No, it's a great hook, we've got to do it.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1982}}

{{cquote|We rehearsed the end bit of 'She Loves You' and took it to George. And he just laughed and said, 'Well, you can't do the end of course... that sixth... it's too like the Andrew Sisters.' We just said, 'Alright, we'll try it without,' and we tried it and it wasn't as good. Then he conceded, 'You're right, I guess.' But we were both very flexible. We would listen to George's ideas too, because he was a producer and a musician, and he obviously knew what he was talking about. There was good to-and-fro. We loved that bit, and we rehearsed it alot. John and I wrote that in a hotel room, on twin beds during an afternoon off-- I mean, God bless their little cotton socks, those boys WORKED! Here I am talking about an afternoon off, and we're sitting there writing! We just loved it so much. It wasn't work.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

[[She Loves You - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing She Loves You live in Melbourne:'''

{{#ev:youtube|ppuqkh7oaNII}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Please Please Me (album)]]

I'll Get You

2009-04-14T23:48:16Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = I'll Get You | Cover = she-loves-you.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | B-side = "She Loves You" | Released =23 August 1963...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = I'll Get You
| Cover = she-loves-you.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[She Loves You]]"
| Released =23 August 1963 (UK) 16 September 1963 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 1 July 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:05
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5055 (UK) [[Swan]] 4152 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[From Me to You]]"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
| This single = "I'll Get You" / "[[She Loves You]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) - "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|The B-side of 'She Loves You' was meant to be the A-side.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|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. You know-- We got ideas from that. Then we recorded it.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1963}}

{{cquote|That was Paul and me trying to write a song... and it didn't work out.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It's got an interesting chord in it-- 'It's not easy/ To pre-TEND...' That was nicked from a song called 'All My Trials' which is on an album I had by Joan Baez.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[I'll Get You - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing I'll Get You:'''

{{#ev:youtube|eFfUCiKPXzI}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Please Please Me (album)]]

File:She-loves-you.jpg

2009-04-14T22:14:30Z

Mspoole:

She Loves You

2009-04-14T22:13:47Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = She Loves You | Cover = she-loves-you.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | B-side = "I'll Get You" | Released =23 August 1963...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = She Loves You
| Cover = she-loves-you.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[I'll Get You]]"
| Released =23 August 1963 (UK) 16 September 1963 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Pathé Marconi Studios 1 July 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:17
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5055 (UK) [[Swan]] 4152 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[From Me to You]]"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
| This single = "She Loves You" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) - "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|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 of doing one of those answering songs, where a couple of us sing about 'she loves you' ...and the other one sort of says the 'yes, yes' bit. You know, 'yeah yeah' answering whoever is saying it. But we decided that was a crummy idea anyway. But we had the idea to write a song called 'She 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}}

{{cquote|'Yeah.' That's sort of the main catch phrase from 'She Loves You.' We'd written the song, and then suddenly realized we needed more... so we added 'yeah, yeah, yeah' and it caught on.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|We arrange them in the studio normally, you know. We get a basic idea, because you write a song and you get a sound in your head that you think it's gonna sound like. And it usually turns out different, you know. We've given up trying to plan it too much before we go in. None of us can read music. Our A&R man (George Martin) can read music, so sometimes he'll say 'That note's just... it doesn't work, you know. You can't have it.' And we have to go into detail with the piano and everything and work it out and say 'It DOES work. You know, we're singing it. It works.' And sometimes he's right, sometimes he's wrong, you know. (giggling) But it usually all works out in the end.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1964}}

{{cquote|It was written together (with Paul) and I don't remember how. I remember it was Paul's idea-- instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. The 'Woooo' was taken from the Isley Brothers 'Twist And Shout,' which we stuck into everything.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Occasionally, we'd overrule George Martin, like on 'She Loves You,' we end on a sixth chord, a very jazzy sort of thing. And he said, 'Oh, you can't do that! A sixth chord? It's too jazzy.' We just said, 'No, it's a great hook, we've got to do it.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1982}}

{{cquote|We rehearsed the end bit of 'She Loves You' and took it to George. And he just laughed and said, 'Well, you can't do the end of course... that sixth... it's too like the Andrew Sisters.' We just said, 'Alright, we'll try it without,' and we tried it and it wasn't as good. Then he conceded, 'You're right, I guess.' But we were both very flexible. We would listen to George's ideas too, because he was a producer and a musician, and he obviously knew what he was talking about. There was good to-and-fro. We loved that bit, and we rehearsed it alot. John and I wrote that in a hotel room, on twin beds during an afternoon off-- I mean, God bless their little cotton socks, those boys WORKED! Here I am talking about an afternoon off, and we're sitting there writing! We just loved it so much. It wasn't work.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

[[She Loves You - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing She Loves You live in Melbourne:'''

{{#ev:youtube|ppuqkh7oaNII}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Please Please Me (album)]]

This Boy

2009-04-14T21:52:51Z

Mspoole:

{{Infobox Single
| Name = This Boy
| Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"
| Released =29 November 1963 
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963
| Genre = Beat
| Length = 2:13
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "This Boy" / "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"(1963)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|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 of course, when I think of some of my own songs-- 'In My Life,' or some of the early stuff-- 'This Boy,' I was writing melody with the best of them|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings) 'To know know know her is to love love love her...' We learned that in my dad's house in Liverpool.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

[[This Boy- Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing This Boy:'''

{{#ev:youtube|Pxxp5e_CReo}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Meet The Beatles]]

This Boy

2009-04-14T21:52:21Z

Mspoole:

{{Infobox Single
| Name = This Boy
| Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"
| Released =29 November 1963 
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963
| Genre = Beat
| Length = 2:13
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "This Boy" / "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"(1963)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|ust 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 of course, when I think of some of my own songs-- 'In My Life,' or some of the early stuff-- 'This Boy,' I was writing melody with the best of them|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings) 'To know know know her is to love love love her...' We learned that in my dad's house in Liverpool.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

[[This Boy- Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing This Boy:'''

{{#ev:youtube|Pxxp5e_CReo}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Meet The Beatles]]

I Saw Her Standing There

2009-04-14T21:51:40Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = I Saw Her Standing There | Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | A-side = "I Want to Hold Your Hand...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = I Saw Her Standing There
| Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"
| Released =29 November 1963 (UK) 13 January 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963
| Genre = Beat
| Length = 2:55
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "I Saw Her Standing There" (US 1964) - "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|That's Paul doing his usual job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler.' I helped with a couple of the lyrics.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote it with John. We sagged off school and wrote it on guitars. I remember I had the lyrics, 'Just seventeen/Never been a beauty queen,' which John... it was one of the first times he ever went, 'What? Must change that!' And it became, 'you know what I mean.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

{{cquote|Sometimes we would just start a song from scratch, but one of us would nearly always have a germ of an idea, a title, or a rough little thing they were thinking about and we'd do it. 'I Saw Her Standing There' was my original. I'd started it and I had the first verse, which therefore gave me the tune, the tempo, and the key. It gave you the subject matter, alot of information, and then you had to fill in. So it was co-written... and we finished it that day.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[I Saw /her Standing There - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing I Saw Her Standing There:'''

{{#ev:youtube|8ZThkK7KjIo}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Please Please Me]]

I Want to Hold Your Hand

2009-04-14T21:36:10Z

Mspoole:

{{Infobox Single
| Name = I Want to Hold Your Hand
| Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[This Boy]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"(US)
| Released =29 November 1963 (UK) 13 January 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:24
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084 (UK) [[Capitol]] 5112 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "[[This Boy]]"(UK 1963) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Let's see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house when we were walking along one day. We knew we had to really get this song going, so we got down in the basement of this disused house and there was an old piano. It wasn't really disused, it was rooms to let. We found this old piano and started banging away. There was a little old organ too. So we were having this informal jam and we started banging away. Suddenly a little bit came to us, the catch line. So we started working on it from there. We got our pens and paper out and just wrote down the lyrics. Eventually, we had some sort of a song, so we played it for our recording manager and he seemed to like it. We recorded it the next day.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

{{cquote|We wrote alot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want To Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that-- both playing into each other's noses|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|'Eyeball to eyeball' is a very good description of it. That's exactly how it was. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' was very co-written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[I Want to Hold Your Hand - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing I Want to Hold Your Hand:'''

{{#ev:youtube|lfsvE4j4ExA}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Meet The Beatles]]

This Boy

2009-04-14T21:34:45Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = This Boy | Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | B-side = "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | Released ...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = This Boy
| Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"
| Released =29 November 1963 
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963
| Genre = Beat
| Length = 2:13
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "This Boy" / "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"(1963)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|ust 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 of course, when I think of some of my own songs-- 'In My Life,' or some of the early stuff-- 'This Boy,' I was writing melody with the best of them|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings) 'To know know know her is to love love love her...' We learned that in my dad's house in Liverpool.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

[[This Boy- Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing This Boy:'''

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File:I-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg

2009-04-14T21:26:58Z

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I Want to Hold Your Hand

2009-04-14T21:26:12Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = I Want to Hold Your Hand
| Cover = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[This Boy]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"(US)
| Released =29 November 1963 (UK) 13 January 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes 17 October 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:24
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084 (UK) [[Capitol]] 5112 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "[[This Boy]]"(UK 1963) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Let's see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house when we were walking along one day. We knew we had to really get this song going, so we got down in the basement of this disused house and there was an old piano. It wasn't really disused, it was rooms to let. We found this old piano and started banging away. There was a little old organ too. So we were having this informal jam and we started banging away. Suddenly a little bit came to us, the catch line. So we started working on it from there. We got our pens and paper out and just wrote down the lyrics. Eventually, we had some sort of a song, so we played it for our recording manager and he seemed to like it. We recorded it the next day.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

{{cquote|We wrote alot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want To Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that-- both playing into each other's noses|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|'Eyeball to eyeball' is a very good description of it. That's exactly how it was. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' was very co-written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[I Want to Hold Your Hand - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing I Want to Hold Your Hand:'''

{{#ev:youtube|lfsvE4j4ExA}}

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I Should Have Known Better

2009-04-14T19:33:49Z

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Things We Said Today

2009-04-12T20:24:52Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Things We Said Today
| Cover = things-we-said-today.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"
| Released =10 July 1964 (UK) 13 July 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 2 June 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:38
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol]] 5222 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[You Can't Do That]]" / "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]" (UK 1963) - "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1963)
| This single = "Things We Said Today" / "[[A Hard Day's Night]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"/ "[[She's a Woman]]" (UK 1964) - "[[I'm Happy Just to Dance with You]]" / "[[I'll Cry Instead]]" (US 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul's. Good song|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote 'Things We Said Today' on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we'll remember the things we said 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 trick.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

[[Things We Said Today - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing Things We Said Today live at Indiana state fair:'''

{{#ev:youtube|0DcV1UI1B6M}}

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Things We Said Today

2009-04-12T20:22:42Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Things We Said Today
| Cover = things-we-said-today.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"
| Released =10 July 1964 (UK) 13 July 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 2 June 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:38
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol]] 5222 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[You Can't Do That]]" / "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
| This single = "Things We Said Today" / "[[A Hard Day's Night]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"/ "[[She's a Woman]]" (UK 1964) - "[[I'm Happy Just to Dance with You]]" / "[[I'll Cry Instead]]"(US only 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul's. Good song|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote 'Things We Said Today' on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we'll remember the things we said 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 trick.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

[[Things We Said Today - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing Things We Said Today live at Indiana state fair:'''

{{#ev:youtube|0DcV1UI1B6M}}

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:A Hard Day's Night (album)]]

Things We Said Today

2009-04-12T20:18:45Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Things We Said Today
| Cover = a-hard-days-night.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"
| Released =10 July 1964 (UK) 13 July 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes 2 June 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:38
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol]] 5222 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[You Can't Do That]]" / "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
| This single = "Things We Said Today" / "[[A Hard Day's Night]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"/ "[[She's a Woman]]" (UK 1964) "[[I'm Happy Just to Dance with You]]" / "[[I'll Cry Instead]]"(US only 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul's. Good song|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote 'Things We Said Today' on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we'll remember the things we said 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 trick.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

[[Things We Said Today - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing Things We Said Today live at Indiana state fair:'''

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[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:A Hard Day's Night (album)]]

You Can't Do That

2009-04-12T20:03:00Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = You Can't Do That
| Cover = cant-buy-me-love.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"
| Released =20 March 1964 (UK) 16 March 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes 25 February 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:37
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5114 (UK) [[Capitol]] 5587 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
| This single = "You Can't Do That" / "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"/ "[[Things We Said Today]]" (UK) "[[I Should Have Known Better]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I'd find it a drag to play rhythm all the time, so I always work myself out something interesting to play. The best example I can think of 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 too thin for records. Anyway it drove me potty to play chunk-chunk rhythm all the time. I never play anything as lead guitarist that George couldn't do better. But I like playing lead sometimes, so I do it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1964}}

{{cquote|That's me doing Wilson Pickett. You know, a cowbell going four-in-the bar, and the chord going 'chatoong!'|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

[[Can't Buy Me Love - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing You Can't Do That:'''

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File:Cant-buy-me-love.jpg

2009-04-11T22:46:01Z

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Can't Buy Me Love

2009-04-11T22:41:37Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Can't Buy Me Love
| Cover = cant-buy-me-love.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[You Can't Do That]]"
| Released =20 March 1964 (UK) 16 March 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Pathé Marconi Studios 29 January 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:11
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5114 (UK)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
| This single = "Can't Buy Me Love" / "[[You Can't Do That]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"/ "[[Things We Said Today]]" (UK) "[[I Should Have Known Better]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|That's Paul completely. Maybe I had something to do with the chorus, but I don't know. I always considered it his song.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|We recorded it in France, as I recall. Went over to the Odeon in Paris. Recorded it over there. Felt proud because Ella Fitzgerald recorded it, too, though we didn't realize what it meant that she was doing it.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|'Can't Buy Me Love' is my attempt to write a bluesy mode. The idea behind it was that all these material possessions are all very well but they won't buy me what I really want.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[Can't Buy Me Love - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing this song:'''

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Can't Buy Me Love

2009-04-11T22:38:57Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = Can't Buy Me Love | Cover = cant-buy-me-love.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | A-side = "You Can't Do That" | Released =20...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = Can't Buy Me Love
| Cover = cant-buy-me-love.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[You Can't Do That]]"
| Released =20 March 1964 (UK) 16 March 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Pathé Marconi Studios 29 January 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:11
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5114 (UK)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK) "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
| This single = "Can't Buy Me Love" / "[[You Can't Do That]]" (1964)
| Next single = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"/ "[[Things We Said Today]]" (UK) "[[I should Have Known Better]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|John and Paul, but mainly Paul.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|That's Paul completely. Maybe I had something to do with the chorus, but I don't know. I always considered it his song.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|We recorded it in France, as I recall. Went over to the Odeon in Paris. Recorded it over there. Felt proud because Ella Fitzgerald recorded it, too, though we didn't realize what it meant that she was doing it.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|'Can't Buy Me Love' is my attempt to write a bluesy mode. The idea behind it was that all these material possessions are all very well but they won't buy me what I really want.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[Can't Buy Me Love - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing this song:'''

{{#ev:youtube|2LoYM5OWIqI}}

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For You Blue

2009-04-11T20:47:32Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = For You Blue
| Cover = for-you-blue.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]"
| Released = 8 March 1970 (UK)
| Format = [[gramaphone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Apple Studios 25 January 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:27
| Label = Apple Records, EMI
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Phil Spector]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Let It Be]]" / "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" (1970)
| This single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "For You Blue" (1970)
| Next single = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]" / "[[Helter Skelter]]" (1976)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|'For You Blue' is a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal twelve-bar principles, except that it's happy-go-lucky!|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

[[For You Bluee - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch a video of For You Blue'''

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Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

2009-04-11T20:47:13Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
| Cover = obladioblada.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]" "[[Julia]]" (US edition)
| Released = 8 November 1976
| Format = [[vinyl record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios 3 July 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:07
| Label = Capitol 4347
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]" / "[[Helter Skelter]]" (1976)
| This single = "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]" "[[Julia]]"(1976)
| Next single = "[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]" / "[[With a Little Help from My Friends]]" (1978)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|I might've given him a couple of lyrics, but it's his song, his lyric.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|A fella who used to hang around the clubs used to say, (Jamaican accent) 'Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on,' and he got annoyed when I did a song of it, 'cuz he wanted a cut. I said, 'Come on, Jimmy, it's just an expression. If you'd written the song, you could have had a cut.' He also used to say, 'Nothin's too much, just outta sight.' He was just one of those guys who had great expressions, you know.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da- Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch a video of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da'''

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For You Blue

2009-04-11T20:45:11Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = For You Blue
| Cover = for-you-blue.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]"
| Released = 8 March 1970 (UK)
| Format = [[gramaphone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Apple Studios 25 January 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:27
| Label = Apple Records, EMI
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Phil Spector]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Let It Be]]" / "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" (1970)
| This single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "For You Blue" (1970)
| Next single = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]" / "[[Helter Skelter]]" (1976)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|'For You Blue' is a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal twelve-bar principles, except that it's happy-go-lucky!|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

[[For You Bluee - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch a video of For You Blue'''

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File:Got-to-get-you-into-my-life.jpg

2009-04-11T20:25:13Z

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Helter Skelter

2009-04-11T20:23:50Z

Mspoole: New page: {{Infobox Single | Name = Helter Skelter | Cover = got-to-get-you-into-my-life.jpg | Artist = The Beatles | A-side = "Got to Get You Into My Life" | ...

{{Infobox Single
| Name = Helter Skelter
| Cover = got-to-get-you-into-my-life.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]"
| Released = 22 November 1968
| Format = [[gramaphone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios 9 September 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 4:30 (Stereo LP) 3:38 (Mono LP)
| Label = Apple Records
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Yesterday]]" (UK-1976) - "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" (1970)
| This single = "[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]" / "Helter Skelter" (1976)
| Next single = "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]" / "[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]" - "[[Julia]]" (US Edition) (1976)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|Umm, that came about just 'cuz I'd read a review of a record which said, 'And this group really got us wild, there's echo on everything, they're screaming their heads off.' And I just remember thinking, 'Oh, it'd be great to do one. Pity they've done it. Must be great-- really screaming record.' And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn't rough and screaming and tape 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. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}

{{cquote|That's Paul completely. All that (Charles) Manson stuff was built 'round George's song about pigs and this one... Paul's song about an English fairground. It has nothing to do with anything, and least of all to do with me.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|The Who had made some track that was the loudest, the most raucous rock 'n roll, the dirtiest thing they'd ever done. It made me think, 'Right. Got to do it.' I like that kind of geeking up. And we decided to do the loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number we could.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1985}}

[[Helter Skelter- Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Got to Get You Into My Life

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Got to Get You Into My Life
| Cover = got-to-get-you-into-my-life.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Helter Skelter]]"
| Released = 31 May 1976 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios 7 April, 17 June 1966
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:27
| Label = Capitol 4274 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Yesterday]]" (UK-1976) - "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" (1970)
| This single = "[[Helter Skelter]]" / "Got to Get You Into My Life" (1976)
| Next single = "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]" / "[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]" "[[Julia]]" (US Edition) (1976)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|'We were doing our Tamla Motown bit. You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I'm not sure.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|Paul. I think that was one of his best songs, too, because the lyrics are good and I didn't write them. You see? When I say that he could write lyrics if he took the effort-- here's an example.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|That's mine-- I wrote it. It was the first one we used brass on, I think. One of the first times we used soul trumpets.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|I'd been a rather straight working class lad, but when we started to get into pot it seemed to me to be quite uplifting. It didn't seem to have too many side effects like alcohol or some of the other stuff, like pills, which I pretty much kept off. I kind of liked marijuana and to me it seemed it was mind-expanding, literally mind-expanding. So 'Got To Get You Into My Life' is really a song about that. It's not to a person, it's actually about pot. It's saying, 'I'm going to do this. This is not a bad idea.' So it's actually an ode to pot, like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret. I haven't really changed my opinion too much, except if anyone asks me for real advice, it would be stay straight. That is actually the best way, but in a stressful world I still would say that pot was one of the best of the tranquilizing drugs. I have drunk and smoked pot and of the two I think pot is less harmful. People tend to fall asleep on it rather than go out and commit murder, so it's always seemed to me to be a rather benign one|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[Got to Get You Into My Life - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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For You Blue

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The Long and Winding Road

2009-04-08T00:10:17Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = The Long and Winding Road
| Cover = the-long-and-winding-road.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[For You Blue]]"
| Released = 11 May 1970 (US)
| Format = [[vinyl record|7"]]
| Recorded = 26 January 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:37
| Label = Apple Records
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Let It Be]]" / "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" (1970)
| This single = "The Long and Winding Road" / "[[For You Blue]]" (1970)
| Next single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" (1970)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|The album was finished a year ago, but a few months ago American record producer Phil Spector was called in by John Lennon to tidy up some of the tracks. But a few weeks ago, I was sent a re-mixed version of my song 'The Long And Winding Road' with harps, horns, an orchestra, and a women's choir added. No one had asked me what I thought. I couldn't believe it. The record came with a note from Allen Klein saying he thought the changes were necessary. I don't blame Phil Spector for doing it, but it just goes to show that it's no good me sitting here thinking I'm in control because obviously I'm not. Anyway, I've sent Klein a letter asking for some things to be altered, but I haven't received an answer yet."|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

{{cquote|Paul again. He had a little spurt just before we split.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It's rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist. Songwriting often performs that feat-- you say it, but you don't embarrass yourself because it's only a song, or is it? You are putting the things that are bothering you on the table and you are reviewing them, but because it's a song, you don't have to argue with anyone... It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable; the door you never quite reach. This is the road that you never get to the end of.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[The Long and Winding Road - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Come Together

2009-04-07T23:55:53Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Come Together
| Cover = something.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Something]]"
| Released = 31 October 1969 (UK)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes: 21 July 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 4:18
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]" / "[[Old Brown Shoe]]" (1969)
| This single = "Come Together" / "[[Something]]" (1969)
| Next single = "[[Let It Be]]"/ "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" (1970)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|'Come Together' changed at the session. We said, 'Let's slow it down. Let's do this to it, let's do that to it,' and it ends up however it comes out. I just said, 'Look, I've got no arrangement for you, but you know how I want it.' I think that's partly because we've played together a long time. So I said, 'Give me something funky and set up a beat, maybe.' And they all just joined in.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|On the new album I like 'Come Together,' which is a great one of John's.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1969}}

{{cquote|Come Together" was one of the last ones to be recorded. John was in an (automobile) accident, so he was off for a period of time. Then when we got back, which was only a week or so before we finished the album, we did this one. I think he wrote it only a month or so ago, so it's very new. It's sort of twelve-bar type of tune, and it's one of the nicest sounds we've got, actually. Nice drumming from Ringo. And it's sort of up-tempo. I suppose you'd call it a rocker. Rocker-beat-a-boogie.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1969}}

{{cquote|'Come Together' is me-- writing obscurely around an old Chuck Berry thing. I left the line 'Here comes old flat-top.' It is nothing like the Chuck Berry song, but they took me to court because I admitted the influence once years ago. I could have changed it to 'Here comes old iron face,' but the song remains independent of Chuck Berry or anybody else on earth. The thing was created in the studio. It's gobbledygook-- 'Come Together' was an expression that Tim Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and I tried, but I couldn't come up with one. But I came up with this, 'Come Together,' which would've been no good to him-- you couldn't have a campaign song like that, right? Leary attacked me years later, saying I ripped him off. I didn't rip him off. It's just that it turned into 'Come Together.' What am I going to do, give it to him? It was a funky record-- it's one of my favorite Beatle tracks, or, one of my favorite Lennon tracks, let's say that. It's funky, it's bluesy, and I'm singing it pretty well. I like the sound of the record. You can dance to it. I'll buy it!|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

[[Come Together - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Something

2009-04-07T23:45:39Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Something
| Cover = something.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Come Together]]"
| Released = 31 October 1969 (UK)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes: 25 February 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:00
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]" / "[[Old Brown Shoe]]" (1969)
| This single = "Something" / "[[Come Together]]" (1969)
| Next single = "[[Let It Be]]"/ "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" (1970)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I think that's about the best track on the album, actually.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|I like George's song 'Something.' For me I think it's the best he's written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1969}}

{{cquote|I wrote the song 'Something' for the album before this one, but I never finished it off until just recently. I usually get the first few lines of words and music together, both at once... and then finish the rest of the melody. Then I have to write the words. It's like another song I wrote when we were in India. I wrote the whole first verse and just said everything I wanted to say, and so now I need to write a couple more verses. I find that much more difficult. But John gave me a handy tip. He said, 'Once you start to write a song, try to finish it straight 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 straight away.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1969}}

{{cquote|I could never think of words for it. And also because there was a James Taylor song called 'Something In The Way She Moves' which is the first line of that. And so then I thought of trying to change the words, but they were the words that came when I first wrote it, so in the end I just left it as that, and just called it Something. When I wrote it, I imagined somebody like Ray Charles doing it. That's the feel I imagined, but because I'm not Ray Charles, you know, I'm sort of much more limited in what I can do, then it came out like this. It's nice. It's probably the nicest melody tune that I've written.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1969}}

{{cquote|'Something' was written on the piano while we were making the White Album. I had a break while Paul was doing some overdubbing so I went into an empty studio and began to write. That's really all there is to it, except the middle took some time to sort out. It didn't go on the White Album because we'd already finished all the tracks.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

[[Something - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Old Brown Shoe

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Old Brown Shoe
| Cover = ballad-of-john-and-yoko.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"
| Released = 30 May 1969 (UK) 4 June 1969 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes: 16 & 18 April 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:16
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Get Back]]" / "[[Don't Let Me Down]]" (1969)
| This single = "Old Brown Shoe" / "[[The Ballad of John and Yoko]]" (1969)
| Next single = "[[Something]]"/ "[[Come Together]]" (1969)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I started the chord sequences on the piano, which I don't really play, and then began writing ideas for the words from various opposites... Again, it's the duality of things-- yes no, up down, left right, right wrong, etcetera.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

[[Old Brown Shoe - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Ballad of John and Yoko

2009-04-07T23:25:56Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Ballad of John and Yoko
| Cover = ballad-of-john-and-yoko.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"
| Released = 30 May 1969 (UK) 4 June 1969 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes: 14 April 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:59
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Get Back]]" / "[[Don't Let Me Down]]" (1969)
| This single = "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "[[Old Brown Shoe]]" (1969)
| Next single = "[[Something]]"/ "[[Come Together]]" (1969)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|It's something I wrote, and it's like an old-time ballad. It's the story of us going along getting married, going to Paris, going to Amsterdam, all that. It's 'Johnny B. Paperback Writer.' The story came out that only Paul and I were on the record, but I wouldn't have bothered publicizing that. It doesn't mean anything. It just so happened that there were only two of us there -- George was abroad and Ringo was on the film and he couldn't come that night. Because of that, it was a choice of either re-mixing or doing a new song -- and you always go for doing a new one instead of fiddling about with an old one. So we did and it turned out well.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|Well, guess who wrote that? I wrote that in Paris on our honeymoon. It's a piece of journalism. It's a folk song. That's why I called it, 'The Ballad Of...'|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|John came to me and said, 'I've got this song about our wedding and it's called The Ballad Of John And Yoko, Christ They're Gonna Crucify Me, and I said 'Jesus Christ, you're kidding aren't you? Someone really is going to get upset about it.' He said, 'Yeah, but let's do it.' I was a little worried for him because of the lyric but he was going through alot of terrible things. He came around to my house, wanting to do it really quick. He said, 'Let's just you and me run over to the studio.' I said 'Oh alright, I'll play drums, I'll play bass.' John played guitar. So we did it and stood back to see if the other guys would hate us for it-- which I'm not sure about. They probably never forgave us. John was on heat, so to speak. He needed to record it so we just ran in and did it.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

[[Ballad of John and Yoko - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch the Beatles performing this song:'''

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Don't Let Me Down

2009-04-07T23:15:03Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Don't Let me Down
| Cover = get-back.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Get Back]]"
| Released = 11 April 1969
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =27 January 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:25
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Hey Jude]]" (1967)
| This single = "Don't Let Me Down" / "[[Get Back]]" (1968)
| Next single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"/ "[[Old Brown Shoe]]" (1969)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|(to Ringo, regarding the cymbal smash in the intro) 'Give me a big 'kzzzsshhhh!' Give me the courage to come screaming in.'|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|That's me, singing about Yoko.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It was a very tense period. John was with Yoko, and had escalated to heroin and all the accompanying paranoias and he was putting himself out on a limb. I think that, as much as it excited and amused him, at the same time it secretly terrified him. So 'Don't Let Me Down' was a genuine plea, 'Don't let me down, please, whatever you do. I'm out on this limb...' It was saying to Yoko, 'I'm really stepping out of line on this one. I'm really letting my vulnerability be seen, so you must not let me down.' I think it was a genuine cry for help. It 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 this one. I sang harmony on it, which makes me wonder if I helped with a couple of the words, but I don't think so. It was John's song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[Don't Let Me Down - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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2009-04-07T23:08:39Z

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Get Back

2009-04-07T23:07:29Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Get Back
| Cover = get-back.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Don't Let Me Down]]"
| Released = 27 January 1969
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =27 January 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:14
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Hey Jude]]" (1967)
| This single = "Get Back" / "[[Don't Let Me Down]]" (1968)
| Next single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"/ "[[Old Brown Shoe]]" (1969)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{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 it we suddenly said 'Okay, that's it. Get it out tomorrow.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air. We started to write words there and then... When we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to rollercoast by.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1969}}

{{cquote|The way we're writing at the moment, it's straightforward and there's nothing weird. Songs like 'Get Back,' things like that. We recorded that one on the Apple roof but I'm not sure if that's the (single) that went out. We always record about ten versions. You get lost in the end.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|Paul takes the lead vocal, and you can say it's a lovely little toetapper. If you can sit down when this one is on, then you're a stronger man than I am.|quotewidth=500px|Ringo Starr|1969}}

{{cquote|'Get Back' is Paul. That's a better version of 'Lady Madonna.' You know, a potboiler rewrite.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

[[Get Back - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Revolution

2009-04-07T22:52:08Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Revolution
| Cover = hey-jude.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Hey Jude]]"
| Released = 28 August 1968
| Format = [[45 RPM]]
| Recorded = Trident Studios: 12 July 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:21
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Lady Madonna]]" (1967)
| This single = "Revolution" / "[[Hey Jude]]" (1968)
| Next single = "[[Get Back]]"/ "[[Don't Let Me Down]]" (1969)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{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 way I wanted it to sound.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|I should never have put that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing off in the studio when I did that.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|The statement in 'Revolution' was mine. The lyrics stand today. It's still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. That is what I used to say to Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Count me out if it is for violence. Don't expect me to be on the barricades unless it is with flowers. For years, on the Beatles' tours, Brian 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, 'I'm going to answer about the war. We can't ignore it.' I absolutely wanted the Beatles to say something about the war.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

[[Revolution - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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Hey Jude

2009-04-07T22:31:07Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Hey Jude
| Cover = hey-jude.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Revolution]]"
| Released = 26 August 1968
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Trident Studios: 31 July 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 7:08
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Lady Madonna]]" (1967)
| This single = "Hey Jude" / "[[Revolution]]" (1968)
| Next single = "[[Get Back]]"/ "[[Don't Let Me Down]]" (1969)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Well, when Paul first sang 'Hey Jude' to me... or played me the little tape he'd made of it... I took it very personally. 'Ah, it's me,' I said, 'It's me.' He says, 'No, it's me.' I said, 'Check. We're going through the same bit.' So we all are. Whoever is going through a bit with us is going through it, that's the groove.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|That's his best song.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|I remember I played it to John and Yoko, and I was saying, 'These words won't be on the finished version.' 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 sense at all.' He's saying, 'Sure it does, it's great.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1974}}

{{cquote|He said it was written about Julian. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to see Julian to say hello. He had been like an uncle. And he came up with 'Hey Jude.' But I always heard it as a song to me. Now I'm sounding like one of those fans reading things into it... Think about it: Yoko had just come into the picture. He is saying. 'Hey, Jude'-- 'Hey, John.' Subconsciously, he was saying, 'Go ahead, leave me.' On a conscious level, he didn't want me to go ahead. The angel in him was saying, 'Bless you.' The devil in him didn't like it at all, because he didn't want to lose his partner.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I remember on 'Hey Jude' telling George not to play guitar. He wanted to do echo riffs after the vocal phrases, which I didn't think was appropriate. He didn't see it like that, and it was a bit of a number for me to have to 'dare' to tell George Harrison-- who's one of the greats-- not to play. It was like an insult. But that's how we did alot of our stuff.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1985}}

{{cquote|There is an amusing story about recording it... Ringo walked out to go to the toilet and I hadn't noticed. The toilet was only a few yards from his drum booth, but he'd gone past my back and I still thought he was in his drum booth. I started what was the actual take-- and 'Hey Jude' goes on for hours before the drums come in-- and while I was doing it I suddenly felt Ringo tiptoeing past my back rather quickly, trying to get to his drums. And just as he got to his drums, boom boom boom, his timing was absolutely impeccable.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[Hey Jude - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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The Inner Light

2009-03-20T23:40:16Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = The Inner Light
| Cover = lady-madonna.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Lady Madonna]]"
| Released = 15 March 1968 (UK) 18 March 1968 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 3-6 February 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:36
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]" (1967)
| This single = "[[Lady Madonna]]" / "The Inner Light" (1968)
| Next single = "[[Hey Jude]]" (1968)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Forget the Indian music and listen to the melody. Don't you think it's a beautiful melody? It's really lovely.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}

[[The Inner Light - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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2009-03-20T23:29:56Z

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Lady Madonna

2009-03-20T23:28:53Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Lady Madonna
| Cover = lady-madonna.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[The Inner Light]]"
| Released = 15 March 1968 (UK) 18 March 1968 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 3-6 February 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:16
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]" (1967)
| This single = "Lady Madonna" / "[[The Inner Light]]" (1968)
| Next single = "[[Hey Jude]]" (1968)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|It sounds like Elvis, doesn't it? No, it doesn't sound like Elvis... it IS Elvis. Even those bits where he goes very high.|quotewidth=500px|Ringo Starr|1968}}

{{cquote|Paul. Good piano lick, but the song never really went anywhere. Maybe I helped him on some of the lyrics.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|'Lady Madonna' is all women. How do they do it? --bless 'em. Baby at your breast, how do they get the time to feed them? Where do they get the money? How do you do this thing that women do?.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1986}}

{{cquote|The original concept was the Virgin Mary, but it quickly became symbolic of every woman-- the Madonna image but as applied to ordinary working-class women. 'Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing. It reminded me of Fats Domino for some reason, so I started singing a Fats Domino impression. It took my voice to a very odd place.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

[[Lady Madonna - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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I Am The Walrus

2009-03-20T23:14:56Z

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[[I Am The Walrus - The Music]] | [[I Am The Walrus - The Story]] | [[I Am The Walrus - The Lyrics]]</div>

{{Infobox Single
| Name = I Am The Walrus
| Cover = I-Am-The-Walrus.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| a-side = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| Released = 24 November 1967 (UK) 27 November 1967 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = [[Abbey Road Studios]]: 5 September 1967
| Genre = Psychedelic rock / Experimental rock
| Length = 4:34
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[All You Need Is Love]]" / "[[Baby, You're a Rich Man]]" (1966)
| This single = "I Am The Walrus" / "[[Hello, Goodbye]]" (1967)
| Next single = "[[Lady Madonna]]" (1968)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko. Part of it was putting down Hare Krishna. All these people were going on about Hare Krishna, Allen Ginsberg in particular. The reference to 'Element'ry penguin' is the elementary, naive attitude of going around chanting, 'Hare Krishna,' or putting all your faith in any one idol. I was writing obscurely, a la Dylan, in those days. It's from 'The Walrus and the Carpenter.' 'Alice in Wonderland.' To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? (singing) 'I am the carpenter...'|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''Playboy'' Interview|1980}}

{{cquote|Everyone keeps preaching that the best way is to be 'open' when writing for teenagers. Then when we do we get criticized. Surely the word 'knickers' can't offend anyone. Shakespeare wrote words alot more naughtier than knickers!|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1967}}

{{cquote|We chose the word (knickers) because it is a lovely expressive word. It rolls off the tongue. It could 'mean' anything.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1967}}

{{cquote|People don't understand. In John's song, 'I Am The Walrus' he says: 'I am he as you are he as you are me.' People look for all sorts of hidden meanings. It's serious, but it's also not serious. It's true, but it's also a joke.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1967}}

{{cquote|We write lyrics, and I write lyrics that you don't realize what they mean till after. Especially some of the better songs or some of the more flowing ones, like 'Walrus.' The whole first verse was written without any knowledge. With 'I Am the Walrus,' I had 'I am he as you are he as we are all together.' I had just these two lines on the typewriter, and then about two weeks later I ran through and wrote another two lines and then, when I saw something, after about four lines, I just knocked the rest of it off. Then I had the whole verse or verse and a half and then sang it. I had this idea of doing a song that was a police siren, but it didn't work in the end (sings like a siren) 'I-am-he-as-you-are-he-as...' You couldn't really sing the police siren.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan — we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert — but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go. I'm not judging whether "I Am The Walrus" is better or worse than "Imagine." It is for others to judge. I am doing it. I do. I don't stand back and judge — I do.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|''Playboy'' Interview, 1980}}

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Strawberry Fields Forever

2009-03-20T22:48:12Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Strawberry Fields Forever
| Cover = pennystrawps.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| Released = 13 February 1967 (UK) 17 February 1967 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]]: November–December 1966
| Genre = Psychedelic rock / Experimental rock
| Length = 4:10
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Eleanor Rigby]]" / "[[Yellow Submarine]]" (1966)
| This single = "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "[[Penny Lane]]" (1967)
| Next single = "[[All You Need Is Love]]" (1967)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|Strawberry Fields is a real place. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my auntie who lived in the suburbs in a nice semidetached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around... not the poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles stories. In the class system, it was about half a class higher than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in government-subsidized housing. We owned our house and had a garden. They didn't have anything like that. Near that home was Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys' reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid with my friends Nigel and Pete we would go there and hang out and sell lemonade bottles for a penny. We always had fun at Strawberry Fields. So that's where I got the name. But I used it as an image. Strawberry Fields forever. [Singing] “(Living is easy) With eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see.” It still goes, doesn’t it? Aren’t I saying exactly the same thing now? The awareness apparently trying to be expressed is — let’s say in one way I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. I was different all my life. The second verse goes, “No one I think is in my tree.” Well, I was too shy and self-doubting. Nobody seems to be as hip as me is what I was saying. Therefore, I must be crazy or a genius — “I mean it must be high or low,” the next line. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see. I thought I was crazy or an egomaniac for claiming to see things other people didn’t see. As a child, I would say, “But this is going on!” and everybody would look at me as if I was crazy. I always was so psychic or intuitive or poetic or whatever you want to call it, that I was always seeing things in a hallucinatory way. It was scary as a child, because there was nobody to relate to. Neither my auntie nor my friends nor anybody could ever see what I did. It was very, very scary and the only contact I had was reading about an Oscar Wilde or a Dylan Thomas or a Vincent van Gogh — all those books that my auntie had that talked about their suffering because of their visions. Because of what they saw, they were tortured by society for trying to express what they were. I saw loneliness.”|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|Interview, ''Playboy'', 1980}}

{{Cquote|John wanted to keep his acoustic guitar for this session, so Paul took over on the mellotron. With Ringo on drums and George on electric guitar, the song was heavier-sounding than I had imagined it from my initial run-through with John, but it came together very quickly. Almost immediately, we arrived at a take that we thought would be the final one. That first take is brilliant, especially John's vocal: clear, pure, and riveting. As he sang it that night, the song became hypnotic: gentle and wistful, but very strong too, his sparse vocal standing in sharp contrast to the full sound of George's electric guitar, Paul's imaginative mellotron and Ringo's magnificent drums. Sticking to John's original idea, ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' started with what became, in the finished version, the chorus: "Living is easy with eyes closed..." (The introduction that we all now know had not yet been written.) Typically, John asked for a speed change on his vocal recording. I thought his voice was one of the all-time greats, but he was always asking me to distort or bend it in some way, to "improve" it, as he thought. So when we overdubbed his vocal, we pumped up the tape frequency to 53 hertz instead of the normal 50 hertz. On playback at normal speed the change lowered his voice by a semitone, making it sound warmer and huskier.|George Martin|''Summer of Love'' (Macmillan Ltd., London)|1994}}
[[Strawberry Fields Forever - Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

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