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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.