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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