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{{cquote|Many people ask what are Beatles? Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles, how did the na {{cquote|At that time, [[Stuart Sutcliffe|Stuart]] [Sutcliffe] was into the Marlon B

{{cquote|Paul did the first half, I did the middle-eight. But you've got Paul writin {{cquote|I wrote it as more of an up-tempo thing, country and western. I had the bas

{{cquote|We always try to do something different. And this idea's a bit different. Y {{cquote|Paul. I think I might have helped with some of the lyrics, Yes, I did. But

{{cquote|After we'd done the session on that particular song — it ended at abou {{cquote|That's me again — with the first backwards tape on record anywhere...

{{cquote|I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningfu {{cquote|That was John after a night out, with dawn coming up. I think at that point

{{cquote|'Yesterday' is Paul completely on his own, really. We just helped finishing {{cquote|I just started playing it and this tune came, 'cuz that's what happens. The

{{cquote|That's Paul... I think it was inspired by 'Bridge Over Troubled Water.' Tha {{cquote|I had alot of bad times in the '60s. We used to lie in bed and wonder what

{{cquote|Strawberry Fields was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army {{cquote|Strawberry Fields is a real place. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I

{{cquote|'All You Need Is Love' was perfect if you're going to say any message. That {{cquote|We just put a track down, because I knew the chords. I played a harpsichord

{{Cquote|One of us might think of a song completely, and the other might just add a {{cquote|[Paul] provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for the s

{{cquote|The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line wa {{cquote|Everyone keeps preaching that the best way is to be 'open' when writing for

{{cquote|That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. Paul's contribution {{cquote|John just didn't take the time to explain that we sat down together and wor

{{cquote|A basic track was taped first: George's and John's guitars (John supplied t {{cquote|Written in India. A song about Mia Farrow's sister, who seemed to go slight

{{cquote|In 'Baby You're a Rich Man' the point was, stop moaning. You're a rich man {{cquote|'Baby, You're A Rich Man' was co-written by John and me at Cavendish Avenue

{{cquote|That's another McCartney. An attempt to write a single. It wasn't a great p {{cquote|'Hello Goodbye' was one of my songs. There are Geminian influences here I t

{{cquote|That's me trying a rewrite of 'This Boy,' but it didn't quite work.|quotewi {{cquote|I was there writing it with John, but it was his inspiration that I helped

{{cquote|This was the first time feedback was used on a record. It's right at the be {{cquote|That's me completely. Including the guitar lick with the first feedback any

{{cquote|We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all ni {{cquote|Late one night, when we were all pretty tired after a heavy day, somebody s

{{cquote|That's Paul with some contribution from me on lines, probably. We put in th {{cquote|This was my attempt at a bluesy thing... instead of doing a Little Richard

{{cquote|That's Paul... with a little help from me, I think.|quotewidth=500px|John L {{cquote|I could do Little Richard's voice which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing-

{{cquote|We think it's one of the best we've written.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1 {{cquote|The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out,

{{cquote|Me. But I think Paul helped with the verse.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|19 {{cquote|That's mine. Including the guitar lick, the guitar break, and the whole bit

{{cquote|There was another song I wrote around 'Pepper' time that's still in the can {{cquote|That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record wit

{{cquote|The Yellow Submarine people, who were gross animals, apart from the guy who {{cquote|It's a happy place, that's all. You know, it was just... We were trying to

{{cquote|I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just ca {{cquote|I got the name Rigby from a shop in Bristol. I was wandering round Bristol

{{cquote|I like some of the things the Animals try to do, like the song Eric Burdon {{cquote|We really got into the groove of imagining Penny Lane — the bank was t

{{cquote|It sounds like Elvis, doesn't it? No, it doesn't sound like Elvis... it IS {{cquote|Paul. Good piano lick, but the song never really went anywhere. Maybe I hel

{{cquote|I went back [to India] in 1967 to record the ''Wonderwall'' album, and also {{cquote|quotewidth=500px|''The Inner Light'' came really, from ''[[Within You, With

{{cquote|Well, when Paul first sang 'Hey Jude' to me... or played me the little tape {{cquote|That's his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian because

{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was l {{cquote|I should never have put that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing of

{{cquote|We'd been talking about it since we recorded it, and we kept saying 'That's {{cquote|We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air. We started

{{cquote|(to Ringo, regarding the cymbal smash in the intro) 'Give me a big 'kzzzssh {{cquote|That's me, singing about Yoko.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It's something I wrote, and it's like an old-time ballad. It's the story of {{cquote|Well, guess who wrote that? I wrote that in Paris on our honeymoon. It's a

{{cquote|I started the chord sequences on the piano, which I don't really play, and

{{cquote|I think that's about the best track on the album, actually.|quotewidth=500p {{cquote|I like George's song 'Something.' For me I think it's the best he's written

{{cquote|'Come Together' changed at the session. We said, 'Let's slow it down. Let's {{cquote|On the new album I like 'Come Together,' which is a great one of John's.|qu

{{cquote|The album was finished a year ago, but a few months ago American record pro {{cquote|Paul again. He had a little spurt just before we split.|quotewidth=500px|Jo

{{cquote|'For You Blue' is a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal twelve-

{{cquote|'We were doing our Tamla Motown bit. You see, we're influenced by whatever' {{cquote|I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I'm not sure.|quotewid

{{cquote|Umm, that came about just 'cuz I'd read a review of a record which said, "A {{cquote|Helter Skelter means confusion. Literally. It doesn't mean any war with any

{{cquote|I might've given him a couple of lyrics, but it's his song, his lyric.|quot {{cquote|After about four or five nights doing 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', John Lennon cam

{{cquote|That's Paul completely. Maybe I had something to do with the chorus, but I {{cquote|We recorded it in France, as I recall. Went over to the Odeon in Paris. Rec

{{cquote|I'd find it a drag to play rhythm all the time, so I always work myself out {{cquote|That's me doing Wilson Pickett. You know, a cowbell going four-in-the bar,

{{cquote|Paul's. Good song|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}} {{cquote|I wrote 'Things We Said Today' on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nost

{{cquote|That's me. Just a song — It doesn't mean a damn thing.|quotewidth=500p {{cquote|Paul and I enjoyed writing the music for the film. There were times when we

{{cquote|Let's see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house wh {{cquote|We wrote alot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I

{{cquote|Just my attempt at writing one of those three-part harmony Smokey Robinson {{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that

{{cquote|That's Paul doing his usual job of producing what George Martin used to cal {{cquote|I wrote it with John. We sagged off school and wrote it on guitars. I remem

{{cquote|We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually.|quotewidth=500px|Jo {{cquote|John and I wrote it together. We were in a van up in Newcastle somewhere, a

{{cquote|The B-side of 'She Loves You' was meant to be the A-side.|quotewidth=500px| {{cquote|If we write one song, then we can get going after that and get more ideas.

{{cquote|'From Me To You.' It could be done as an old Ragtime tune... especially the {{cquote|We were writing it in a car, I think... and I think the first line was mine

{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was l {{cquote|I should never have put that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing of

{{cquote|George gave Derek Taylor a copy and asked him to hand deliver it to us, bef {{cquote|'If I Needed Someone' was like a million other songs written around one cho

{{cquote|With everything, with any kind of thing, my aim seems to be to distort it. {{cquote|''Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' was a musical fragmentation grenad

{{cquote|I was writing the song with the 'Daily Mail' propped up in front of me on t {{cquote|'A Day in the Life' — that was something. I dug it. It was a good piec

{{cquote|'Good Morning, Good Morning' was fairly straight rock 'n' roll except for s {{cquote|When he was at home, he'd spend a lot of time lying in bed with a notepad.

{{cquote|'When I'm Sixty Four' was something Paul wrote in the Cavern days. We just {{cquote|I think I helped Paul with some of the words.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|

{{cquote|It was John's original idea and we both sat down and wrote it together, jus

{{cquote|This just, sort of, came. Chuck Berry once did a song called 'Back In The U

{{cquote|I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other dra {{cquote|I remember him coming home from school with it and showing it to his dad, w

{{cquote|Mr. Kite' was a straight lift. I had all the words staring me in the face o {{cquote|The story that Henry the Horse meant 'heroin' was rubbish.|quotewidth=500px

{{cquote|That's Paul... again writing a good lyric.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|198 {{cquote|Yeah, I wrote that. I liked that one. Strange story, though. The night we w

{{cquote|'Paul wrote it after a trip to America. The whole west coast long named gro {{cquote|It was an idea I had, I think, when I was flying from L.A. to somewhere. I

{{cquote|There wasn't a lot of money at Parlophone. I was working to an annual budge {{cquote|The first LP we did at 10 o'clock in the morning, just after a night out. W

{{cquote|Paul had the line about 'a little help from my friends.' He had some kind o {{cquote|The song ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’ was written specifically

{{cquote|There are so many people who don't understand the sentiment of 'Within You {{cquote|'Within You Without You' was written after I had got into meditation. We ha

{{cquote|It was in the spring of 1967 that I ticketed Paul's car. He was on a meter {{cquote|'Lovely Rita' was occasioned by me reading that, in America, they call Traf

{{cquote|The group encouraged us to break the rules. [...] It was implanted when we {{cquote|[The title] is just a name for an LP, and there's no meaning to it. Why doe

{{cquote|I think ''Rubber Soul'' was the first of the albums that presented a new Be {{cquote|''Rubber Soul'' was the pot album, and ''Revolver'' was acid. I mean, we we

{{cquote|The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And what a fall it was ... The w {{cquote|We could easily have assembled a team of experts and asked them to come up

{{cquote|After ''Let It Be (Get Back)'', I really thought we were finished. So I was {{cquote|I don't like people explaining albums. The only way you can explain it is t

{{cquote|The album's most significant new influence was Bob Dylan, who Paul and John {{cquote|[The cover is] very nice, but we weren't pleased with the colouring and sha

{{cquote|''Help!'' took longer. We had more time. Lots more money and I had to tell {{cquote|''Help!'' was where we turned on to pot and we dropped drink, simple as tha

{{cquote|George's songs were getting so much better. He was demanding his rights. Th {{cquote|The album's most significant new ingredient was the influence of Indian gur

{{cquote|February 11, 1963: Then John, Paul and George shared the vocals on 'Chains'

{{cquote|We were asked by Norrie Paramour (of EMI's Columbia label) to write a song {{cquote|John and I were a songwriting team, and what songwriting teams did in those

{{cquote|They had to fit in the square format of the cover, so rather than have them {{cquote|He arranged us in a hotel corridor: it was very un-studio-like. The corrido

{{cquote|Now, with this album in your library, you have a collection of Beatle recor {{cquote|All of the songs, except for "A Hard Day's Night," were written independent

{{cquote|''Yellow Submarine'' is a thing for the children. Kids are the most importa {{cquote|When it came to making the soundtrack album which the producers wanted, the

{{cquote|I got back to England for Christmas and then, on January first, we were to {{cquote|We couldn't get into it. It was just a dreadful, dreadful feeling at Twicke

{{cquote|I wrote this at my mother's house in the North of England. I just had my gu {{cquote|It was very spontaneous. We were in George's car, driving in London, and he

{{cquote|February 11, 1963: John Lennon had a particularly heavy cold, clearly indic

{{cquote|'Taxman' was when I first realized that even though we had started earning {{cquote|I brought my old Epiphone electric guitar out, which was like a cheap Gibso

{{cquote|February 11, 1963: Ringo took lead vocal for the first time in the recordin {{cquote|Any one of us could hold the audience. Ringo would do 'Boys', which was a f

{{cquote|'Please Please Me' is my song totally. It was my attempt at writing a Roy O {{cquote|We almost abandoned it as the B-side of 'Love Me Do'. We changed our minds

{{cquote|Another of mine. Mainly about drugs and pills. It was about myself. I was t {{cquote|Me. I think Paul helped with the middle.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, [htt

{{cquote|Another of my throwaways.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''Playboy Interview {{cquote|Another horror.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

{{cquote|If Paul had written a song, he'd learn all the parts and then come in the s {{cquote|[Paul's] song, with contributions from me.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''

{{cquote|It is a diary form of writing. All that 'I used to be cruel to my woman, I {{cquote|Wrote that at my house in St. John's Wood. All I remember is that I said, '

{{cquote|I wrote that. My kind of ballad from that period. One of my daughters likes {{cquote|[D]uring the making of ''Pepper'' [Paul] was also to give me one of the big

{{cquote|Another memorable incident occurred when Alan Civil — formerly of the {{cquote|George was in for the crack, he liked that. He said, 'It'll work, it'll wor

{{cquote|One example was the time that George Harrison brought in some local Indian {{cquote|I play sitar on another track. I don't care if everybody is using 'em, you

{{cquote|It's got backwards guitars ... that's me dreaming my life away.|quotewidth= {{cquote|We tried to get the vocals to sound like somebody's asleep, which is very d

{{cquote|[Timothy] Leary was the one who was going round saying, 'Take it, take it, {{cquote|'Tomorrow Never Knows' ... I didn't know what I was saying, and you just fi

{{cquote|I think a lot of these songs like 'Tell Me Why' may have been been based in {{cquote|'Tell Me Why'... they needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off.

{{cquote|'And I Love Her' is Paul again. I consider it his first 'Yesterday.' You kn {{cquote|It was the first ballad I impressed myself with. It's got nice chords in it

{{cquote|It was certainly not unknown for the Beatles to record re-makes of certain {{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was l

{{cquote|It's a typical McCartney sing-a-long, or whatever you call them. He did qui {{cquote|I hate it, 'cos all I remember is the track. He made us do it a hundred mil

{{cquote|'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I alw {{cquote|It was around this time that Paul started getting in the habit of coming in

{{cquote|Both of us wrote it. I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the {{cquote|'Eight Days A Week' was a landmark recording in that it was the first time

{{cquote|That was a very personal one of mine. In the early days, I wrote less mater {{cquote|Ringo had a great style and great delivery. He had a lot of fans, so we lik

{{cquote|'I'm A Loser' is me in my Dyland period, because the word 'clown' is in it. {{cquote|Most of my good songs are in the first person. [[In My Life|'In My Life']],

{{cquote|We wanted to write something a little bit darker, bluesy, the title's dark {{cquote|For this album we rehearsed only the new ones. Songs like 'Honey Don't' and

{{cquote|After this somewhat unusual recording ['Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby'] {{cquote|Then with time running short, Paul moved over to the piano, where he pounde

{{cquote|I remember writing that in our front living room at Forthlin Road on my own {{cquote|That's Paul's again. Can't you tell? I mean, 'Tomorrow may rain, so I'll fo

{{cquote|I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were st {{cquote|I lived in the suburbs in a nice semi-detached place with a small garden an

{{cquote|Whilst we weren't a poor family, we weren't rich by any means, so we never {{Cquote|We used to have wanking sessions when we were young at Nigel Whalley's hous

{{cquote|...to try to imagine the soul entering the womb of the woman living 12 Arno {{Cquote|I liked music since I can remember. I can remember ''One Meat Ball'', very

{{cquote|First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things.... But I d

{{cquote|[Stuart] also dreamt up a new name for the group. Buddy Holly had his Crick

{{cquote|The first of the cover versions was 'Mr. Moonlight,' John sining lead on th {{cquote|John took the vocal spotlight for their next number, a cover of an obscure

{{cquote|Finally, John and Paul harmonised on a version of Buddy Holly's 'Words Of L {{cquote|There was still one more song to be recorded — a cover of Buddy Holly'

{{cquote|We all knew 'Honey Don't', it was one of those songs that every band in Liv {{cquote|First was 'Honey Don't', another Carl Perkins cover version, with Ringo tak

{{cquote|I remember [Beatles music publisher] Dick James coming up to me after we di {{cquote|That's my song. That's the one where Dick James the publisher said, 'That's

{{cquote|John and I got this one written in Atlantic City during our last tour of th {{cquote|'Every Little Thing' is his [Paul's] song. Maybe I threw in something.|quot

{{cquote|We wrote this one in Atlantic City like 'Every Little Thing'. It's not that {{cquote|His [Paul's] song... I might have done something.|quotewidth=500px|John Len

{{cquote|First on the agenda was a cover of Little Richard's 'Kansas City'/'Hey-Hey- {{cquote|Everyone's attention then turned to the first full song of the day, a cover

{{cquote|For this album we rehearsed only the new ones. Songs like 'Honey Don't' and {{cquote|First, a rejuvenated George Harrison redeemed himself with an excellent ren

{{cquote|'Norwegian Wood' is my song completely. It was about an affair I was having {{cquote|I came in and he had this first stanza, which was brilliant: 'I once had a

{{cquote|'I'll Be Back' is me completely. My variation of the chords in a Del Shanno {{cquote|A nice tune, though the middle is a bit tatty.|John Lennon, ''Hit Parader''

{{cquote|That's me again... another Wilson Pickett, Motown sound... a four-in-the-ba {{cquote|After a break, the Beatles taped another new Lennon number, 'When I Get Hom

{{cquote|An effort at writing 'It Won't Be Long' — same ilk. C to A minor, C to {{cquote|Another long and productive day. First song was 'Any Time At All,' John bel

{{cquote|We were going to do this in the ''A Hard Day's Night'' film, but the direct {{cquote|I wrote that for 'A Hard Day's Night,' but Dick Lester didn't even want it.

{{cquote|The LP record '[[Beatles for Sale]] was issued in December, 1964. In the we

{{cquote|Paul.                     {{cquote|Normally I write on guitar and have full chords, or on the piano and have f

{{cquote|Paul used a fuzz box on the bass on 'Think For Yourself'. When [[Phil Spect {{cquote|'Think For Yourself' must be written about somebody from the sound of it &#

{{cquote|That's me. Writing about this ''dream'' girl again — the one that hadn {{cquote|It was John's original idea, but it was very much co-written. I remember wr

{{cquote|I like 'Across the Universe,' too. ... It's one of the best lyrics I've wri {{cquote|I was a bit more artsy-fartsy there. I was lying next to my first wife in b

{{cquote|'The Word' was written together, but it's mainly mine. You read the words, {{cquote|[After we composed 'The Word'] we smoked a bit of pot, then we wrote out a

{{cquote|'''Barry Miles:''' 'Wait' was written in the Bahamas, during the filming of {{cquote|Three more songs were needed. Paul came up with one, John another, and for

{{cquote|It has a line from an old Presley song. 'I'd rather see you dead little gir {{cquote|John was always on the run, running for his life. He was married; whereas n

{{cquote|I have had playmates, I have had companions / In my days of childhood, in m {{cquote|I think 'In My Life' was the first song that I wrote that was really, consc

{{cquote|Paul has had this idea about writing a bit with some other language, with F {{cquote|'Michelle' was like a joke French tune for when you go to a party or someth

{{cquote|We started in the summer of 1956. We are all friends and four of us (John, {{cquote|Our first appearance was in Rosebery Street — it was their Empire Day

{{cquote|Paul. He must have had an argument with Jane Asher.|quotewidth=500px|John L {{cquote|As is one's wont in relationships, you will from time to time argue or not

{{cquote|That was an early Lennon, written before the Beatles when we were the Quarr {{cquote|I contributed about five words to "What Goes On.' [laughs] And I haven't do

{{cquote|I was in Kenwood and I would just be songwriting. The period would be for s

{{cquote|I was just having a laugh because there had been so much gobbledegook writt {{cquote| '''<nowiki>[</nowiki>Regarding the line "Here's another clue for you all,

{{cquote|No, it's not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking {{cquote|I thought, "What a fantastic, insane thing to say." A warm gun means that y

{{cquote|Julia was my mother. But it was sort of a combination of Yoko and my mother {{cquote|The 'ocean child', who John writes is calling him, is clearly a reference t

{{cquote|'Savoy Truffle' on ''The White Album'' was written for Eric [Clapton]. He's

{{cquote|Way back in the Sixties, there was a lot of trouble going on over civil rig {{cquote|Incredible to meet two of the Little Rock Nine -- pioneers of the civil rig

{{cquote|That was me, remembering a little event I had with a woman in Jersey, an is {{cquote|John, being Royston's friend, went out to dinner with him and got pissed (d

{{cquote|I'd read somewhere in the paper about this mean guy who was hiding five-pou