Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, May 19, 1967, in London, United Kingdom. Sad to say that, but it makes sense if you’ve ever spent time working with someone who is bipolar.The Beatles attend a press party at the home of manager Brian Epstein supporting the release of Sgt. IMO, it’s the cycle of mania-depression speaking. John’s role in the Beatles exposed him to pressures that triggered his insecurities, anxieties and fears of inadequacy, while his relationship with Yoko appeared to be (in its better periods) an emotional sanctuary for him. It’s difficult for these people to think about things in a detached, leveled way because they experience everything through the filter of either mania or depression. I made an argument in the John forum that he had bipolar disorder, and people with untreated bipolar tend to be hypercritical, especially about themselves and anything they have been a part of, and often they recall things in a highly distorted, emotionally colored and unreliable fashion that often makes them portray past events either very negatively or very positively. John had issues and those issues colored his opinions of things. I think you’re being unfair–it seems John trashed his own songs far more often than Paul’s or songs that Paul ad significant contributions. So given all that, it is highly possible that John Paul and George can each have a different sense of who contributed what in what song during the many different moments the stew was being brewed.Īdd to that relational dynamics, drug use, faulty memories, egos etc, and it should be no wonder that they very much have different recollections on how a particular song was finalized. This is known as the collaborative creative process. Even Let It Be had different tempos, Two of Us had different feels, Something did as well – tons of examples of this.
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There’s plenty of out takes showing this give and take and everyone throwing ideas in to get a song completed. Sometimes in Paul’s case the song would be brought into the studio almost completely done.īut then once in the studio as the song was fleshed out and started getting formally arranged, there was plenty of input on chord changes, melody structure, tempo, song structure (verse, bridge ,chorus order etc) plus changing lyrics that didn’t seem to flow or land properly on the melody or beat etc. First usually at home either John alone or Paul alone (sometimes together) but the germ of the song would be written. In the way the Beatles worked, there were two times a song was composed. So here’s a thought that might add some clarity to just about every “who helped who on which song” discussion out there. Paul was there, John was there, we can only speculate what really happened. It’s ok if you believe more in John’s version than Paul’s (I tend to believe more in Paul’s version, at least in most of the cases, though, for example, on Birthday case, I think the most credible source its Chris Thomas, because I think if you watch a beatle write a song in front you is something you never forget), but I don’t know if it is right to say “But we all know that John wrote this bit alone”. Many John’s fans obviously didn’t like that, but doesn’t mean that McCartney is not telling the true. You really think that McCartney only helped John in five or six songs? In the book Many years from now, Paul’s finally revealed his contributions to John’s songs, because Lennon never did. That’s not only controversial but surely inexact and unfair too. But on the other hand, John said he helped Paul in a lot of songs. In Lennon’s Playboy and Hit Parader interviews you can count in one hand the songs in which John mentioned any help from Paul in his songs.
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This shows that Paul’s has some participation in John’s section, and maybe he really helped on the second and last verse like he said.
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In fact John Lennon said in his interviews WITH PLAYBOY AND HIT PARADER that Paul not only contributed the “Woke up fell…” section but also the short lick “I love to turn you on”. But we all know that John wrote this bit alone.
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For example: He says that he wrote the “I read the news today”-part from “A Day in the Life” together with John. EltonJohnLennon Sunday 25 April 2010 In “Many Years From Now” Paul writes much which is – in my opinion – controversial.