“It’s my song.”Ĭlapton would deliver a killer solo at the end of the song that would not only finish the track with a flourish but become perhaps one of the finest guitar solos ever put down on tape.
“Nobody ever plays on the Beatles’ records,” Clapton is thought to have said to Harrison with a moment of trepidation. Instead of looking to the help of his bandmates Paul McCartney and John Lennon to finish the track, Harrison instead turned to Eric Clapton once more. ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ was a simple study based on that theory… I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw ‘gently weeps’, then laid the book down again and started the song.” “Every little item that’s going down has a purpose. “The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be,” Harrison once commented. Recorded in 1968 as part of the White Album sessions, ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ was written as an exercise in ‘randomness’ where George Harrison consulted the Chinese Book of Changes. “John and I used to be interested in what the old fashioned writers used to call the verse, which we nowadays would call the intro – this whole preamble to a song, and I wanted to have one of those on the front of ‘Here, There and Everywhere.’ John and I were quite into those from the old-fashioned songs that used to have them, and in putting that on the front of ‘Here, There and Everywhere,’ we were doing harmonies, and the inspiration for that was the Beach Boys.” “It’s actually just the introduction that’s influenced,” recalled McCartney. Inspired by ‘God Only Knows’, McCartney’s favourite song of all time, the song is achingly beautiful. McCartney himself later remarked that it “was the only song that John ever complimented me on.” And he deserved the compliment too. And one of my favourite songs of the Beatles.” The Revolver anthem ‘Here There and Everywhere’ is a song that has ubiquitous appeal even for the cantankerous John Lennon, who said of the song: “This was a great one of his,” before adding: “That’s Paul’s song completely, I believe. It is a song bristling with emotion, care, comfort, and love. The truth is that the song, like any great song does, can be moved and repositioned to fit whatever the audience may need at the time. The direct target of McCartney’s anthemic and downright astounding song is likely to be a combination of both of these sentiments. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude.’ But I always heard it as a song to me.” He was driving to see Julian to say hello. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. I always thought it was about me and Yoko but he said it was about him and his.”ĭuring his famous 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon also offered another theory to the song’s inception: “He said it was written about Julian. “It started off as a song about my son Julian because Paul was going to see him. “That’s his best song,” claimed John Lennon when speaking about McCartney’s famous song. The song’s 1964 reissue finally created a buzz that spread like wildfire. However, their US debut didn’t take off on the first try.
After facing rejection from many record companies including the Atlantic, the local Chicago company Vee-Jay agreed to sign the song and released it on 7th February 1963. It may have topped almost all the UK charts when released on January 11th 1963, but it was a hard pitch to the US record producers. It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it? I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie’s place.” Though the album credits state the song to be a Lennon-McCartney composition, it was in fact all Lennon: “’Please Please Me’ is my song completely.
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But the band managed to crack through the armour of the industry with this gem. But in the early 1960s, when the band was in the beginner phase of their esteemed career, the task of expanding their circle proved to be quite challenging. The zenith of fame the band reached makes it difficult to believe that they too had their “struggling days”.
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The formula to success is trial and error and the song ‘Please, Please Me’ proves that.
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