“The thing about the Beatles was, we were a damn good little band.”
Love affairs, drugs, the break-up of the Beatles: in an exclusive extract from his new book, Paul McCartney reveals the intimate stories behind the lyrics to some of his greatest songs. thetimes.co.uk/article/paul-m…
Love affairs, drugs, the break-up of the Beatles: in an exclusive extract from his new book, Paul McCartney reveals the intimate stories behind the lyrics to some of his greatest songs. thetimes.co.uk/article/paul-m…
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Released in 1964
“There was an eroticisim behind it all. If I’d heard myself use that word when I was seventeen, there would have been a guffaw. But eroticism was very much a driving force behind everything I did.”
Released in 1964
“There was an eroticisim behind it all. If I’d heard myself use that word when I was seventeen, there would have been a guffaw. But eroticism was very much a driving force behind everything I did.”
“You know, that was what lay behind a lot of these love songs. ‘I want to hold your hand’, open brackets, [and probably do a lot more!]”
“By the time this song was written, when I was about twenty-one, we had come to London. Our manager had gotten The Beatles a flat: Apartment L, 57 Green Street, Mayfair.”
Sgt Pepper
Released in 1967
“One of the things about the Beatles is that we noticed accidents. Then we acted upon them. I was with our roadie Mal Evans and he said, ‘Will you pass the salt and pepper?’ I misheard him and said, ‘What? Sergeant Pepper?’”
Released in 1967
“One of the things about the Beatles is that we noticed accidents. Then we acted upon them. I was with our roadie Mal Evans and he said, ‘Will you pass the salt and pepper?’ I misheard him and said, ‘What? Sergeant Pepper?’”
Hey Jude
Released in 1968
“When I sang, ‘The movement you need is on your shoulder’, I immediately turned around to John and said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll change that,’ and he looked at me and said, ‘You won’t, you know. It’s the best line in it.’”
Released in 1968
“When I sang, ‘The movement you need is on your shoulder’, I immediately turned around to John and said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll change that,’ and he looked at me and said, ‘You won’t, you know. It’s the best line in it.’”
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