Dear Prudence - The Beatles
I Need You-The Beatles
The Beatles - P.S. I Love You
“It’s just an idea for a song really, a theme song based on a letter, like the Paperback Writer idea. It was pretty much mine. I don’t think John had much of a hand in it. There are certain themes that are easier than others to hang a song on, and a letter is one of them. ‘Dear John’ is the other version of it. The letter is a popular theme and it’s just my attempt at one of those. It’s not based in reality, nor did I write it to my girlfriend [Dot Rhone] from Hamburg, which some people think.” - Paul McCartney
I Saw Her Standing There | The Beatles
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Polythene Pam // The Beatles — Abbey Road
I’m A Loser - The Beatles (Beatles For Sale)
The Beatles | Long, Long, Long
The Beatles- If I Needed Someone
The Beatles - In My Life
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The Beatles - A Day in the Life
“A Day In The Life - that was something. I dug it. It was a good piece of work between Paul and me. I had the ‘I read the news today’ bit, and it turned Paul on. Now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of song, and he just said ‘yeah’ - bang, bang, like that. It just sort of happened beautifully.” - John Lennon
“At the very beginning I put into the musical score the lowest note each instrument could play, ending with an E major chord. And at the beginning of each of the 24 bars I put a note showing roughly where they should be at that point. Then I had to instruct them. ‘We’re going to start very very quietly and end up very very loud. We’re to start very low in pitch and end up very high. You’ve got to make your own way up there, as slidey as possible so that the clarinets slurp, trombones gliss, violins slide without fingering any notes. And whatever you do, don’t listen to the fellow next to you because I don’t want you to be doing the same thing.’ Of course they all looked at me as though I was mad…” - George Martin
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I heard the Barber of Seville Overture on the radio. Naturally, this came to mind.