Most important, they always fit right into the arrangement. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional.Īnd John Lennon and Paul McCartney were exceptional songwriters McCartney was, and is, a truly virtuoso musician George Harrison wasn’t the kind of guitar player who tore off wild, unpredictable solos, but you can sing the melodies of nearly all of his breaks. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. It wasn’t the first time anything like this had happened, but the Beatles achieved a level of fame and recognition known previously only to Charlie Chaplin, Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley, along with a little of the airless exclusivity of astronauts, former presidents and other heavyweight champions.Įvery record was a shock. My experience - seizing on every picture, saving money for singles and EPs, catching them on a local news show - was repeated over and over again around the world. I was exactly the right age to be hit by them full-on. The Beatles even recorded for Parlophone, which was a comedy label, as if they believed they might be a passing novelty act. Prior to that, the people in show business from the north of England had all been comedians. The funny thing is that parents and all their friends from Liverpool were also curious and proud about this local group. I didn’t care about that they were the band for me. The photo was badly lit, and they didn’t quite have their look down Ringo had his hair slightly swept back, as if he wasn’t quite sold on the Beatles haircut yet.
This was 1962 or ’63, before they came to America. I spent most of my holidays on Merseyside then, and a local girl gave me a bad publicity shot of them with their names scrawled on the back. I think McCartney sold his artistic soul down the river here.I first heard of the Beatles when I was nine years old. It does seem a bit of a slap in the face for all those who have done wonderful cover versions of his nothing song, presumably because of its melody and lyrics, not its riff. He has always seemed uncomfortable performing the song…next we’ll be hearing Harrison wrote the whole thing. Whether McCartney is bowing to pressure from the underrated George deserves writing credit for XY & Z brigade or whether it lets him off the hook for writing it about Jane Asher, who knows. Yet in a recent interview he said the song wasn’t anything without George’s riff and that George Martin was looking for an intro – no mention of a middle eight. Here he says it’s the first ballad he impressed himself with while John regarded it as Paul’s first Yesterday. What’s more strange is Paul’s attitude to the song. That’s how it was probably perceived at the time of recording but none of us were there in the studio so its anyone’s guess how it unfolded. From the first time I heard the song the riff never seemed that removed from the chord structure of the melody itself. George’s riff may be iconic but it seems no big thing to me.
The middle section, meanwhile, came about in the studio, as music publisher Dick James later recalled. The success of ‘And I Love Her’ owes much to the simplicity of its lyrics, and to the effectiveness of George Harrison’s acoustic guitar solo, for which the song’s key switches from F# minor to G minor. Again they were unhappy with the results, however, and it was re-recorded on 27 February in just two takes. They returned to it the next day, recording 16 takes and changing the song’s arrangement as they went along. The second take was later released on Anthology 1.
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They recorded two takes that day, with a full electric line-up, but it was evidently not the sound they were after. The Beatles began recording ‘And I Love Her’ on 25 February 1964. The session took place at Broadcasting House in London, and was first broadcast two days later. On 14 July 1964 they played it for the BBC’s Top Gear radio show. The group played it during the ‘studio performance’ sequence, which was filmed on 31 March 1964 at the Scala Theatre, London.Īlthough it became one of The Beatles’ most admired recordings following its release, the group only performed ‘And I Love Her’ once outside Abbey Road. ‘And I Love Her’ was one of the songs featured in The Beatles first film, A Hard Day’s Night.
Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
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