Lennon/McCartney
Rating:
***** (excellent)
A wonderful
acoustic ballad written by John; it’s about both a dream and bitchy girl. Those
sighs show the singer’s feelings perfectly. The guitar work has a beautiful
Greek sound.
John (1980): “That’s me, writing about this
dream girl-- the one that hadn’t come yet. It was Yoko.”
Paul (1994): “It was John’s original idea, but it was very much
co-written. I remember writing ‘the pain and pleasure,’ and ‘a man must break
his back.’ ...It was amusing to see if we could get a naughty word on the
record. The Beach Boys had a song out where they’d done ‘la la la la’ and we
loved the innocence of that and wanted to copy it but not use the same phrase.
So we were looking around for another phrase-- ‘dit dit dit dit,’ which we
decided to change it in our waggishness to ‘tit tit tit tit.’ And it gave us a
laugh. It was good to get some light relief in the middle of this real big
career that we were forging. If we could put in something that was a little bit
subversive then we would. George Martin would say, ‘Was that dit-dit or tit-tit
you were singing?’ ‘Oh! dit-dit George, but it does sound a bit like that,
doesn’t it?’ Then we’d get in the car and break down laughing.”
Recording
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Recorded: November 11, 1965 at Abbey Road, London, England Instrumentation: Paul McCartney - bass guitar, backing vocal George Harrison - acoustic guitar, backing
vocal Ringo Starr - drums |
Releasing
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Release Date |
Title |
Format |
Label |
UK
|
1965, December 3 |
RUBBER SOUL (UK) |
LP |
Parlophone |
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1973, April 19 |
THE BEATLES /
1962-1966 (Red Album) |
LP |
Apple |
|
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1977, November 19 |
LOVE SONGS |
LP |
Parlophone |
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US |
1965, December 6 |
RUBBER SOUL (US) |
LP |
Capitol |
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1973, April 2 |
THE BEATLES / 1962-1966
(Red Album) |
LP |
Apple |
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1977, October 21 |
LOVE SONGS |
LP |
Capitol |
Lyrics
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GIRL Is there anybody going to listen to my storyAll
about the girl who came to stay? She’s
the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry Still,
you don’t regret a single day Ah
girl, girl, girl! When
I think of all the times I tried so hard to leave her She
will turn to me and start to cry And
she promises the earth to me and I believe her After
all this time I don’t know why Ah
girl, girl, girl! She’s
the kind of girl who puts you down When
friends are there, you feel a fool When
you say she’s looking good She
acts as if it’s understood She’s
cool, cool, cool, cool Girl,
girl, girl! Was
she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure? Did
she understand it when they said That
a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure? Will
she still believe it when he’s dead? Ah
girl, girl, girl! |
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