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...official&client=firefox-a#q=john+lennon+70th+birthday&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=yid&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnlo&source=univ&tbs=nws:1&tbo= <p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool root

| A-side = "[[Day Tripper]]" ...ptimistic, you know. And me, impatient, 'Life is very short and there's no time/ for fussing and fighting, my friend.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

| A-side = "[[Paperback Writer]]" ...ee what else you could do with it. And I was sort of very tired, you know, not knowing what I was doing, and I just happened to put it on my own tape reco

| A-side = "[[Penny Lane]]" {{cquote|Strawberry Fields was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army home. But Strawberry Fields &#151; I mean, I have visions of

| B-side = "[[Baby, You're a Rich Man]]" | This single = "All You Need Is Love" / "[[Baby, You're a Rich Man]]"<br/>(1967)

...it, the other agrees. It just doesn't matter that much. I care about being a song writer, but I don't care passionately about each song.|Paul McCartney| ...would always go for the sadness, the discords, the bluesy notes. There was a period when I thought I didn't write melodies, that Paul wrote those and I

| A-side = "[[Let It Be]]" {{cquote|There was another song I wrote around 'Pepper' time that's still in the can, called 'You Know My Name Look Up The Number.' That

...ever credited. They wanted another song; I knocked off "Hey Bulldog." It's a good-sounding record that means nothing.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980} ...happy place, that's all. You know, it was just... We were trying to write a children's song. That was the basic idea. And there's nothing more to be re

.... 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 wo ...reason, so I started singing a Fats Domino impression. It took my voice to a very odd place.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

| A-side = "[[Get Back]]" {{cquote|(to Ringo, regarding the cymbal smash in the intro) 'Give me a big 'kzzzsshhhh!' Give me the courage to come screaming in.'|quotewidth=500

...ice 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 ...? 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

...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 awa ...ody 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

...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}}

...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 {{cquote|We were writing it in a car, I think... and I think the first line was mine. I mean, I know it was

{{cquote|George gave Derek Taylor a copy and asked him to hand deliver it to us, before the release of the song ...do their records, they sound like session men who've just got together in a studio without ever seeing each other before. Technically they're good, but

.... Look, there's the bill &#151; with Mr. Kite topping it. I hardly made up a word, just connecting the lists together. Word for word, really.|quotewidth {{cquote|It's all just from that poster. The song is pure, like a painting. A pure watercolor.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

| Name = Fixing a Hole {{cquote|That's Paul... again writing a good lyric.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

...all we all are. 'Within You Without You' was just my way of trying to make a Western pop song using some of those instruments and some of those sounds.| ...ormann's house in Hampstead, London, one night after dinner. I was playing a pedal harmonium in the house, when the song came to me. The tune came first

...h=500px|Meta Davies, St. John's Wood's first female ticket officer, from ''A Hard Day's Write'' by Steve Turner|1994}} ...idence. [...] I didn't think, Wow, that woman gave me a ticket, I'll write a song about her &#151; never happened like that.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCar

...tself: a piano shouldn't sound like a piano, a guitar shouldn't sound like a guitar. There were lots of things I wanted to try, we were listening to Ame ...an LP, and there's no meaning to it. Why does everyone want a reason every time you move? It means Revolver. It's all the things that Revolver means, becau

...of their singles and now we really were beginning to think about albums as a bit of art in their own right. We were thinking about the album as an entit ...o myself, 'Now I’m gonna make an album just as good as ''Rubber Soul''.' Not the same album. Obviously there can only be one album that’s ''Rubber Sou

...rder they fall. And what a fall it was ... The whole boring saga confirmed a long held suspicion of mine that The Beatles are four rather pleasant young ...too many people were looking for a plot when there wasn't one. It was just a series of unconnected events, which we thought would be interesting or humo

...as it was with some later reissues and the Compact Disc version, making it a hidden track. ...Look, you know, what happened to ''Let It Be'' is silly. Let's try to make a record like we used to. Would you come and produce it like you used to? I s

| Last album = ''[[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]''<br />(1964) | Single 1 = [[Eight Days a Week (song)|Eight Days a Week]]

...vinyl copies released in 1968 had the band's name embossed crosswise onto a white background. These pressings were also numbered. ...was so much material. Either we would have had to make double albums every time or Paul and I would have had to say, "OK, we'll only have two songs on ever

...pace and we think Helen will make a pretty good job of it. We've also done a number for Duffy Power which he isn't going to record.|quotewidth=500px|Pau ...it down. It may not have been that successful for her because it's rather a downbeat song... 'the world is treating me bad, misery.' It was quite pessi

#"[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]" ...ot into "Guitar Gently Weeps," we recorded it one night and there was such a lack of enthusiasm. So I went home really disappointed, because I knew the

.... I was always intrigued by the double use of the word 'please.' So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison.|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Inte ...idea of featuring the harmonica, just like we did on 'Love Me Do'. By the time the session came round, we were so happy with the result, we couldn't get i

...have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.|John Lennon|September 1980}} .... John's Wood. All I remember is that I said, 'It's getting better all the time,' and John contributed the legendary line 'It couldn't get much worse.' Whi

...sy and I was itching to get on with it; I was inspired. I think George had a lot of difficulty forgiving me for that. It hurt him; I didn't mean to.|quo ...'Here we are. I've got a score. We can record it now.' I recorded it, with a few alterations to make it work better, but I was hurt.|quotewidth=500px|Ge

| Album = [[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]] | Tracks = {{A Hard Day's Night tracks}}

{{cquote|'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought that I c ...he were singing to a live audience. Every day we'd be treated to a hell of a performance as McCartney put his all into singing the song all the way thro

| Name = Eight Days a Week | Name = Eight Days a Week

| Name = Eight Days a Week | B-side = "[[Eight Days a Week (song)|Eight Days a Week]]"

| Name = I'm a Loser ...ll right, 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

...not so much a work job, there was a bit more cred about this one. It's got a good middle.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Ba ...s Trying to Be My Baby,' we'd played live so often that we only had to get a sound on them and do them. But with songs like 'Baby's In Black,' we had to

| alt = A bearded, bespectacled man in his late twenties, with long black hair. ...our own garden, and they didn't have anything like that. So I was a bit of a fruit compared to them.|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews''|1980}}

...e found here on our site. Thanks to Dave for allowing us to post this. For a look at the personnel in the various pre-Beatles lineups, click here.) ...a flaming pie and said unto them "From this day on you are Beatles with an A." "Thank you, Mister Man," they said, thanking him.

...g, it's just that we happened to have a day off the tour there. Ringo does a nice bit of drumming decoration in the introduction, and I double-track on ...n it is a song, some of them are. Sometimes a good recording would enhance a song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', p.175-76|19

| Name = Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night | Cover = Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night.jpg

.... The record format released in the United Kingdom on 8 December 1967, was a six-track double EP on the [[Parlophone]] label, whilst in the United State ...ince its CD release. The soundtrack was a critical and commercial success, a #1 album in the US and [[Grammy Award|Grammy-nominated]], despite the relat

...to hear the breathing, wanted it to be very intimate, so George Martin put a special compressor on the voice, then John dubbed it. ...reak down laughing. So I credit that as being towards John but I put quite a bit in. It wasn't one that he came in with fully finished at all.|quotewidt

...ked a bit of pot, then we wrote out a multicoloured lyric sheet, the first time we'd ever done that. We normally didn't smoke when we were working. It got ...ame forever. I don't think it will ever change. Even though I'm not always a loving person, I want to be that; I want to be as loving as possible.|quote

...dia.org/wiki/Palgrave%27s_Golden_Treasury ''Palgrave's Golden Treasury''], a popular anthology of English poetry|1861}} ...that was really, consciously about my life, and it was sparked by a remark a journalist and writer in England made after [[In His Own Write|''In His Own

...at little bit of emotional baggage. 'I'm looking through you, and you're ''not there''! I think it's totally my song. I don't remember any of John's assis ...t anything was wrong with this first recording. In fact, if there was such a thing as an album of the best 'alternate' Beatles recordings this take one

...ew it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3iSRUyjnU&t=2s HERE] ... I posted a comment requesting that he credit the BeatlesWiki story, at the very least. Which is to say, it's not a fake or in any way doctored.

| Name = Happiness is a Warm Gun #"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"

#"[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]" | A-side = "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]"

Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm. And I closed and opened my hand again, and behold there was a bird.

...t as crisp and clear as possible, and make it available to Beatles fans as a limited-edition high-quality gicl&eacute;e print signed by Charlie. ...and Liverpool of the late '50s / early '60s, revealing new details of that time.

...''"You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of ...his pals John Lennon and the Quarrymen's first public appearance. He took a number of photos, but only 3 have survived the decades.

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