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...ifferent. And this idea's a bit different. Years ago my Auntie Lil said to me, 'Why can't you ever write about a horse or the summit conference or someth
...uote|'Paperback Writer' is son of 'Day Tripper' ... meaning a rock 'n roll song with a guitar lick on a fuzzy loud guitar.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|198
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...ft of God... of Ja actually — the god of marijuana, right? So Ja gave me that one.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
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...there was Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore, which I've just got in some song now, and they were just good names — just groovy names. Just good soun
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...I care about being a song writer, but I don't care passionately about each song.|Paul McCartney|1966}}
...living it. I was actually working with the great John Lennon, and he with me. It was very exciting.|Paul McCartney|1988}}
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...'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 ne
...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
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...dn't take the time to explain that we sat down together and worked on that song for a full three-hour songwriting session, and at the end of it all we had
...it doesn't sound too bad. It doesn't make you cringe. [...] If you'd give me the eight-track now, remix it — I'll show you what it is ''really'', b
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{{cquote|'Baby, You're A Rich Man' was co-written by John and me at Cavendish Avenue. There was lots of talk in the newspapers about the bea
...of two seperate pieces, Paul's and mine, put together and forced into one song. One-half was all mine. (sings) 'How does it feel to be one of the beautifu
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{{cquote|That's me trying a rewrite of 'This Boy,' but it didn't quite work.|quotewidth=500px|
...s his inspiration that I helped him finish off. 'Yes It Is' is a very fine song of John's.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
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{{cquote|That's me completely. Including the guitar lick with the first feedback anywhere. I d
...und object-- an accident caused by leaning the guitar against the amp. The song itself was more John's than mine. We sat down and co-wrote it with John's o
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| Last single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"<br/>(1964)
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...obably. We put in the words 'turns me on.' We were so excited to say 'turn me on' --you know, about marijuana and all that... using it as an expression.|
...This was my attempt at a bluesy thing... instead of doing a Little Richard song, whom I admire greatly, I would use the (vocal) style I would have used for
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{{cquote|Me. But I think Paul helped with the verse.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}
...guitar lick, the guitar break, and the whole bit. It's just a rock 'n roll song. Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferry bo
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...ked 'round looking at the shops, and I saw the name Rigby. Then I took the song down to John's house in Weybridge. We sat around, laughing, got stoned and
...der. The doorbell rang. It was Paul on his own. We jammed a bit. He played me a tune about a strange chap called 'Ola Na Tungee'.
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...ces in Newcastle on the flip of one of their hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up. Places like The Docke
...se it,' he asked. 'Yes, of course we can,' I replied. It never occurred to me, but it occurred to him. So, we got the guy from the London Symphony Orches
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...own 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 impressi
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...ll'' album, and also did the ''Inner Light'' track...|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig. published 1980; Chronicle Books 2007, p.57}}
...of your song ''Within You, Without You''. I am very happy, it is a moving song and may it move the souls of millions; and there is more to come, as you ar
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| Next single = "[[Get Back]]"/ "[[Don't Let Me Down]]"<br />(1969)
...k 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
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| B-side = "[[Don't Let Me Down]]"
| This single = "Get Back" / "[[Don't Let Me Down]]"<br/>(1968)
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| Name = Don't Let me Down
| This single = "Don't Let Me Down" / "[[Get Back]]"<br/>(1968)
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| Last single = "[[Get Back]]" / "[[Don't Let Me Down]]"<br/>(1969)
...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
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{{cquote|I like George's song 'Something.' For me I think it's the best he's written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1969}}
...fficult. 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.' Somet
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...lame 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'v
...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. Th
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...sleep 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}}
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{{cquote|I might've given him a couple of lyrics, but it's his song, his lyric.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
...with all his might, pounding out the famous opening chords that became the song's introduction, played at a breakneck tempo. [...] 'Okay, then, John,' [McC
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| Name = Can't Buy Me Love
| Cover = cant-buy-me-love.jpg
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| B-side = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"
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| A-side = "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]"
| Last single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"<br />(1963)
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...aper 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 rec
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| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
...ent sounds of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "I've Been Good to You," a song from 1961 that provides the melody and chords for the Beatles' "This Boy,"
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| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
...y 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 i
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| Last single = "[[From Me to You]]"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
...t 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
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| Last single = "[[From Me to You]]"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
{{cquote|If we write one song, then we can get going after that and get more ideas. We wrote 'I'll Get Y
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...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 Beatle
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...r a copy and asked him to hand deliver it to us, before the release of the song, along with the explanation that he had put it together with the riff from
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...s being discovered in Blackburn Lancashire. And when we came to record the song there was still one word missing from that verse... I knew the line had to
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| Name = Ask Me Why
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...had all the words staring me in the face one day when I was looking for a song. It was from this old poster I'd bought at an antique shop. We'd been down
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...utside your door day and night. 'See the people standing there/ They worry me, and never win/ And wonder why they don't get in my door.' If they only kne
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...uld you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?’ I said, ‘There’s not a chance in hell am I going to sing this line,
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.... '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.|quotewidth=500px|
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...chatted for a few minutes. Then he said, 'That would be a good idea for a song, do you mind if I use it?' And that was that. Off he went.|quotewidth=500px
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...he never did more than two and Ringo sings, or rather talks, a children's song. This is all part of our idea of being up-to-date and including something f
...r and he was crying... I thought, Oh no... what is he doing? He came up to me and said, 'Klaus, this is exactly what we needed. I was worried that this w
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| Lower caption = The back cover of the album. Note that "[[Her Majesty (song)|Her Majesty]]" is not listed, as it was with some later reissues and the C
...e you used to? I said, 'Well, I'll produce it like I used to if you'll let me.' So Paul rounded up John, George and Ringo and we started work on ''Abbey
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| Single 1 = [[Eight Days a Week (song)|Eight Days a Week]]
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{{cquote|I know the first time for me which was the most depressing was during ''The White Album''. It was a prob
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| Single 1 = [[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/"[[You Can't Do That]]
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#"[[Blackbird (song)|Blackbird]]"
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...like the 'Taxman' solo; that was the other thing I used it on. George let me have a go for the solo because I had an idea -- it was the early Jimi Hendr
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| Caption = "Please Please Me" 45<br/>(1963 UK issue)
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{{cquote|Me. I think Paul helped with the middle.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, [http:/
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{{cquote|I think it was Paul and me, or maybe John and me, playing (guitars) in harmony — quite a complicated little line that g
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...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.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|19
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...hony Orchestra — was brought in to add French horn to Paul's haunting song 'For No One.' Alan was under a lot of pressure doing that overdub, because
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...ought in some local Indian musicians from the Asian Society to play on his song 'Love You To' — which I originally named 'Granny Smith' on the tape bo
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{{cquote|It's got backwards guitars ... that's me dreaming my life away.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Intervie
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...k, and then I wrote 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' which is almost the first acid song, 'Lay down all thought, surrender to the void.' I took one of Ringo's malap
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...was for them to release the original ''and'' re-made versions of the same song. The Beatles did this in 1968 with John Lennon's stunning new composition '
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...it and he had somebody hitting iron pieces and we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album.|John Lennon,''Playboy'' Interviews|198
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...the hell, he's going to sing it. If he'd had any sense he should have let me sing it.|John Lennon|1980}}
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...us wrote it. I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for 'Help!' because there was at one time the thought of calling the film,
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...ed with whatever I was doing. Part of me suspects I'm a loser, and part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Beatles Anthol
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...barrage balloons, and the Germans bombing Liverpool.|George Harrison, ''I Me Mine'', p.19-20|1980}}
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...group credibility, according to "Lennon" author Ray Coleman. Their school song, "Quarry Men, Strong Before Our Birth" was rather prophetic. Group members
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...ng and performing wasn't new to me; it was a case of finding a vehicle for me with The Beatles. That's why we did it on ''Beatles For Sale''. It was comf
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{{cquote|I remember [Beatles music publisher] Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, 'You're getting better now — that wa
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{{cquote|'Norwegian Wood' is my song completely. It was about an affair I was having. I was very careful and par
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...'ll Be Back' is me completely. My variation of the chords in a Del Shannon song.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.146|1980}}
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...again... another Wilson Pickett, Motown sound... a four-in-the-bar cowbell song.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews''|1980}}
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...riting 'It Won't Be Long' — same ilk. C to A minor, C to A minor with me shouting.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews''|1980}}
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| Next single = "[[Matchbox (song)|Matchbox]]"<br>(US-1964)
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...and the Dakotas. Kramer released it as the B-side to "Bad to Me", a Lennon song that Kramer took to number 1. The remaining songs were covers.
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#"[[Misery (The Beatles song)|Misery]]" ([[Lennon/McCartney]])
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...ourth British EP, features four tracks from their albums ''[[Please Please Me]]'' and ''[[With The Beatles]]'' and was released only in [[monaural|mono]]
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| Single 2 =[[Sweet Georgia Brown]]"/"Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby
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...tained four songs from the Help! album: Yesterday, Act Naturally, You Like Me Too Much and It's Only Love.
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{{cquote|That's me. Writing about this ''dream'' girl again — the one that hadn't come ye
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...some they have died, and some they have left me, / And some are taken from me; all are departed / All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.|Charles Lamb
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