"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1965)

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall.
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small.

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day.
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say.

Hey! you've got to hide your love away.
Hey! you've got to hide your love away.

How can I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in.

How could she say to me
Love will find a way?
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say.

Hey! you've got to hide your love away.
Hey! you've got to hide your love away.

Ringo Starr on "What Goes On"

"I used to wish that I could write songs like the others--and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say, 'Yeah, it sounds like such-a-thing,' and when they point it out, I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one -- it was called 'What Goes On.'"

"Devil in Her Heart"

"Devil in Her Heart" (or "Devil in His Heart") is a song written by Richard P. Drapkin, who recorded under the name Ricky Dee.

Recordings

The song was originally recorded as "Devil in His Heart" in Detroit by The Donays for Correc-tone Records. The Donays only made one recording, but their lead singer, Yvonne Allen, recorded solo, and later joined The Elgins at Motown. The song was later picked up by the New York City label Brent and was re-released in August, 1962, as "(There's A) Devil In His Heart" (on Brent 7033, with the B-side "Bad Boy"). This pairing also appeared in the United Kingdom on the Oriole label (Oriole CBA 1770) in 1962. The record was not a hit on either side of the Atlantic.

The song was then performed as "Devil in Her Heart" by The Beatles on stage during 1962 and 1963, with George Harrison on lead vocals. It was recorded and issued on their second LP, With the Beatles in November 1963. The recording was completed in three takes, plus overdubs.

Beatles Credits

* George Harrison – lead guitar, lead vocal
* Paul McCartney – bass, harmony vocal
* John Lennon – rhythm guitar, harmony vocal
* Ringo Starr – drums, maracas

Album: With the Beatles
Released: November 22, 1963
Genre: Rock
Length: 2:27
Label: Parlophone
Writer: Richard Drapkin
Producer: George Martin

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"You're Going to Lose That Girl" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1965)

You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)

If you don't take her out tonight
She's gonna change her mind (she's gonna change her mind)
And I will take her out tonight
And I will treat her kind (I'm gonna treat her kind)

You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)

If you don't treat her right my friend
You're gonna find her gone (you're gonna find her gone)
'cos I will treat her right
And then you'll be the lonely one (you're not the only one)

You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)

I'll make a point of taking her away from you (watch what you do), yeah
The way you treat her what else can I do?

You're gonna lose that girl
You're gonna lose that girl

You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)

I'll make a point of taking her away from you (watch what you do), yeah
The way you treat her what else can I do?

If you don't take her out tonight
She's gonna change her mind (she's gonna change her mind)
And I will take her out tonight
And I will treat her kind (I'm gonna treat her kind)

You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl)
You're gonna lose (yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl).

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"Your Mother Should Know" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1967)

Ooo - ooo.
Let's all get up and dance to a song
That was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long, long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - aah.

Sing it again.
Let's all get up and dance to a song
That was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long, long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - aah.

Lift up your hearts and sing me a song
That was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long, long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - aah.
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - aah.

Sing it again.
Da da da-da da da da da da
Da da da da da-da-da-da-da.
Though she was born a long, long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - yeah ((ooo)).
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - yeah.
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know - yeah.

John Lennon on "Nowhere Man"

"I was just sitting, trying to think of a song, and I thought of myself sitting there, doing nothing and getting nowhere. Once I'd thought of that, it was easy. It all came out. No, I remember now, I'd actually stopped trying to think of something. Nothing would come. I was cheesed off and went for a lie down, having given up. Then I thought of myself as 'Nowhere Man'--sitting in his nowhere land."

"Dear Prudence"

"Dear Prudence" is a song written by John Lennon, and credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was initially performed by The Beatles and is the second track on the 1968 double-disc album The Beatles (also known as "The White Album").

Origins

The song is about actress Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, who was present when the Beatles visited Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. Prudence, focused on meditation, stayed in her room for the majority of their visit. Lennon, who was worried that she was depressed, wrote this song for her, inviting her to "come out to play." While the Beatles left the course, Prudence, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and others, stayed and became Transcendental Meditation (or TM) teachers.

This song, along with the preceding track "Back in the U.S.S.R.," features Paul McCartney on drums rather than Ringo Starr, who had recently walked out. Starr returned after the recording of this song to find flowers waiting for him on his drum kit (which were a gift from George Harrison).

The song features DADGBE, one of the more common alternate guitar tunings for fingerpicking.

In 1987, Lennon's original handwritten copy of the lyrics was sold at auction for $19,500.

"Dear Prudence" was recorded at Trident Studios on 28, 29 and 30 August 1968.

Personnel

* John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal and backing vocal; acoustic guitars
* Paul McCartney – backing vocal, drums, bass, piano and flügelhorn
* George Harrison – backing vocal; lead and rhythm guitars
* Mal Evans – backing vocal, handclaps
* Jackie Lomax – backing vocal, handclaps
* John McCartney – backing vocal, handclaps

Siouxsie & The Banshees version

English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees released "Dear Prudence" in 1983. The band has repeatedly mentioned the Beatles as musical influences, and previously recorded a cover version of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter." "Dear Prudence" became one of Siouxsie & the Banshees' biggest hits, peaking at number three in the UK singles chart during 1983.

Other cover versions

* 1968, Ramsey Lewis covered "Dear Prudence" on his album Mother Nature's Son along with other songs from The Beatles.
* 1970, Kenny Rankin recorded the song on his "Family" album.
* 1970, The Five Stairsteps released a version of the song as the B-side of their 1970 hit "Oooh Child"; it reached #49 on its own on the R&B music charts.
* 1976, Leslie West covered the song on his album The Leslie West Band.
* 1970s, Graham Central Station recorded a previously unreleased version of the song in the mid-1970's. It appears on 2001 greatest hits album The Jam: The Larry Graham & Graham Central Station Anthology.
* 1973, Australian rocker Doug Parkinson released a cover of the song in 1973 that was a top twenty hit in that country.
* 1980s, The Jerry Garcia Band covered the song on their 1991 album, Jerry Garcia Band.
* 2000, Alanis Morissette also covered the song in some of her live shows and performed it at the John Lennon tribute in 2000.
* 2002, Brad Mehldau covered the song in his 2002 album Largo.
* 2007, Dana Fuchs, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson and T.V. Carpio sang the song in the movie Across the Universe.
* Our Lady Peace has covered the song in live shows.
* Jaco Pastorius covered the song on his album Live in New York City - volume two.

Album: The Beatles
Released: 22 November 1968
Recorded: 28-30 August 1968
Genre: Rock
Length: 3:56
Label: Apple Records
Writer: Lennon/McCartney
Producer: George Martin

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"I wrote 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' at my mother's house in the north of England. I had my guitar and I wanted to write a song. I do this often, actually. If I haven't particularly got an idea for a song, then I believe it's a bit like the I Ching, where everything at that moment is relative to that situation. So 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' was typical of that. I opened a book that was around, and the first thing I looked at became the song. It was something about 'gently weeps.' Then from that the whole thought started going and I wrote the song. Eric Clapton played guitar on it. Lots of people don't realize that. Some people wrote letters to me saying, 'You've got a really good blues feel with that guitar.' We didn't publicize it, but we didn't, like, keep it a secret. Eric's a good friend of mine, and I really dig him as a guitarist and as a guy."

"You Won't See Me" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1965)

When I call you up your line's engaged.
I have had enough, so act your age.
We have lost the time that was so hard to find
And I will lose my mind
If you won't see me (you won't see me)
You won't see me (you won't see me).

I don't know why you should want to hide
But I can't get through, my hands are tied.
I won't want to stay, I don't have much to say
But I can turn away
And you won't see me (you won't see me)
You won't see me (you won't see me).

Time after time you refuse to even listen
I wouldn't mind if I knew what I was missing.
((No I wouldn't, no I wouldn't))

Though the days are few, they're filled with tears
And since I lost you it feels like years.
Yes it seems so long, girl, since you've been gone
And I just can't go on
If you won't see me (you won't see me)
You won't see me (you won't see me)

Time after time you refuse to even listen
I wouldn't mind if I knew what I was missing.
((No I wouldn't, no I wouldn't))

Though the days are few, they're filled with tears
And since I lost you it feels like years.
Yes it seems so long, girl, since you've been gone
And I just can't go on
If you won't see me (you won't see me)
You won't see me (you won't see me).

(Yeah) ooo (come on) la la la
(Oh yeah) ooo - la la la
Ooo - la la la.

Beatle People: Julia Baird

Julia Baird (née Dykins) (born 5 March 1947) is the eldest daughter of John 'Bobby' Albert Dykins (1918 - December 1965) and Julia Lennon (12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958). Baird had an older half-brother, English musician John Lennon, an older half-sister, Ingrid Pederson, and a younger sister, Jacqueline 'Jacqui' Dykins (born 26 October 1949).

Lennon started visiting the Dykins' house in 1951. After the death of Julia Lennon in 1958, Harriet and Norman Birch were appointed guardians of Julia and Jacqui, ignoring Dykins' parentage, as he had never legally married their mother. Lennon invited the Dykins sisters to visit after the success of The Beatles, when he was living in Kenwood, Weybridge, with his wife, Cynthia Lennon.

Julia Dykins (Baird) married Allen Baird in 1968 and moved to Belfast. They had three children together but were divorced in 1981. Baird worked as a special needs teacher, and after Lennon's death she wrote John Lennon, My Brother (with Geoffrey Giuliano) and gave up working in 2004 to write Imagine This - Growing up with my brother John Lennon. She is now a director of Cavern City Tours in Liverpool.

Early years

Baird's mother, Julia Lennon, was the fourth of five children in the Stanley family: Mary, known as 'Mimi' (1903-1992), Elizabeth 'Mater' (1908-1976), Anne 'Nanny' (1911-1988), Julia 'Judy' (1914-1958), and Harriet 'Harrie' (1916-1972).

Lennon was Julia's first child by Alfred Lennon, although she later had a daughter called Victoria (renamed Ingrid) after an affair with a Welsh soldier while Alfred was at sea. Julia was forced to give up the child for adoption after intense pressure from her father and her sisters. Although they had known each other previously, Julia started dating Dykins while working in a café near Mosspits, which was Lennon's primary school. Dykins was said to be a good-looking, well-dressed man who was several years older than Julia and worked at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool as a wine steward. Julia later moved into a small flat in Gateacre with Dykins, who had access to rationed goods like alcohol, chocolate, silks and cigarettes. The Stanley sisters called Dykins a "Spiv", because of his pencil-thin moustache, margarine-coated hair, and pork-pie hat, but the young Lennon called him "Twitchy" because of a physical tic and nervous cough Dykins had. Although Julia never divorced Alfred Lennon, she was the Common-law wife of Dykins. Julia's sister, Mimi, called Julia and Dykins' home—at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool—"The House of Sin" and her own house (where Lennon lived) "The House of Correction." When Jacqui was born prematurely on 26 October 1949, Julia went back to the hospital everyday to see her, although she was often not allowed (by Mimi) to visit Lennon.

Dykins later managed several bars in Liverpool, which allowed Julia to stay at home at Blomfield Road, to look after Baird, Jacqui, a cat named "Elvis", and the 11-year-old Lennon, who had started to visit and occasionally stayed overnight. Baird would give up her bed to Lennon, and share Jacqui's double bed. Dykins used to give Lennon weekly pocket money (one shilling) for doing odd jobs, such as collecting golf balls on the local course, on top of the five shillings that Lennon's Aunt Mimi gave him. During Lennon's visits, he would climb trees with Baird and Jacqui, test Baird's spelling, and once gave Baird half-a-crown to leave him alone when he wanted to kiss his first girlfriend. Baird remembered that after Lennon had visited them, her mother would often play a record called, My Son John, To Me You Are So Wonderful, "by some old crooner, and sit and listen to it." "My Son John"—sung by David Whitfield—was released in 1956. Although Mimi sent Lennon to his Aunt's croft in Sango Bay, Durness, Scotland, for his holidays, he later persuaded Mimi to let him take short holidays in North Wales with the Dykins' family. Julia took Baird and Jacqui to Rosebury Street, Liverpool, to watch Lennon play with The Quarrymen on the back of a flatbed coal truck on 22 June 1957. Baird was allowed to sit on the back, but as the music was too loud she asked to be taken off. The Quarrymen played twice that day as part of a celebration to mark the 750th anniversary of the granting of Liverpool’s charter by King John. Lennon and McCartney would later rehearse in the bathroom of Blomfield Road because they said the acoustics "sounded like a recording studio."

Legal guardian

Baird's mother was struck and killed on 15 July 1958, just outside Mimi's home, by a Standard Vanguard car driven by an off-duty constable, PC Eric Clague, who was a learner-driver. Clague later said: "Mrs. Lennon just ran straight out in front of me. I just couldn't avoid her. I was not speeding, I swear it. It was just one of those terrible things that happen." Baird and Jacqui (aged eleven and eight respectively) were sent straightway to stay in Edinburgh at Aunt Mater's, and were not allowed to attend the funeral. They were told two months later by Norman Birch (Lennon's uncle) that their mother had died. Lennon's Aunt Harriet and Uncle Norman Birch were made legal guardians of the girls—ignoring Dykins' parentage, as he had never legally married Julia. Julia was buried in the Allerton Cemetery, in Liverpool.

Baird and Jacqui were taken to live with the Birch's and their son at The Dairy Cottage, which was owned by Mimi's husband, George Smith. At 14-years-old Baird was allowed to go into Liverpool city centre by herself, where she drank cappuccino coffee in the Kardomah Coffee House, although Baird and her friends called it "frothy coffee." At 16, Baird started to hitch-hike to London, although her Aunt never knew, as she would never have allowed it. Baird talked about the trips to London, and how relatively safe they were: "Hitching was easy then. It was a way of life. Everything was becoming more free. We'd start chatting to people in the Tube station and get invited to parties. People always gave us a place to stay - we were never harmed."

Baird and Jacqui were asked to visit Lennon at Kenwood which was his home in Weybridge in 1964. Cynthia Lennon—Lennon's wife at the time—took them both out shopping in Knighstbridge, buying them expensive clothes. During the same visit, The Beatles played at the Finsbury Park Astoria, and the sisters asked to be allowed to stand near the front, but had to be pulled out of the audience by security guards because of the crush. In December 1965, Dykins was killed in a car crash at the bottom of Penny Lane. Lennon was not told about his death for months afterwards. Dykins had married again, but Baird acknowledges that she and Jacqui had very little contact with his wife, and did not attend their father's funeral.

In 1968, Lennon was told The Dairy Cottage was too cramped for them all, so he told Birch to buy a house, and he found a 4-bedroomed house in Gateacre Park Drive, Liverpool. Lennon told Birch to furnish and decorate it, and to send all the bills to him. The Dykins heard nothing from Lennon for years, until he phoned Baird in 1975, and asked for mementos of his childhood life, such as his school tie and photographs. He sent £3,000 to cover the cost of shipping and as a gift, but wrote, "Don't tell Mimi." Lennon continued to call Baird until 1976, when the calls stopped. Jacqui worked as a shop assistant during the 1970s, but battled against a heroin addiction. In the 1980s, and fully recovered, Jacqui gave birth to her son, John, later working as a hairstylist. After Lennon's death and Harriet died, Yoko Ono wanted to sell the house—as it was still in Lennon's name—but later gave it to the Salvation Army on 2 November 1993, even though Lennon had once written: "I always thought of the house he's in [Birch] as my contribution towards looking after Julia [Baird] and Jacqui. I would prefer the girls to use it."

Later years

Baird married Allen Baird in 1968 and moved to Belfast, but kept her family history a secret. The Bairds had three children together: Nicholas (b. 1971) Sara (b. 1972) and David (b. 1980) but got divorced in 1981. Baird went to university and gained an MA in Philosophy of Education, and during her time there she spent a year out in France, hitch-hiked around Europe, and protested against the war in Vietnam in Paris alongside Simone de Beauvoir. Baird later taught French and English before working as a special needs teacher with teenagers in deprived areas of Chester, until she retired to write books and become a director of Cavern City Tours.

Baird and Jacqui later met their half-sister Ingrid Pederson for the first time when they were present at the ceremony to place a Blue Heritage plaque on Mimi's house, commemorating the fact that Lennon had lived there. Baird and Jacqui had only recently found out who Pederson was, after being told by journalist Bill Smithies of the Liverpool Echo newspaper. Baird was shocked that Pederson did not look anything like the Stanley or the Lennon family, as she had pale blue eyes and fair hair.

After releasing the book, John Lennon, My Brother—written with Giuliano, and a foreword by McCartney—Baird travelled to New York during 1989 to appear at a Beatles' convention, and was asked if she could prove she was really Lennon's half-sister. Baird declined, saying that she was not going to produce her passport, and the audience would just have to take her word for it. In 2000, Baird was present at the unveiling of six road signs, erected on major routes into Liverpool, saying, "Liverpool welcomes you - to the birthplace of THE BEATLES," and in October she planted a tree in Liverpool's Peace Gardens to commemorate Lennon's birthday.

Baird stopped working and retired in 2004, and published a book called Imagine This - Growing up with my brother John Lennon, in February 2007. Baird and Jacqui have both publicly said that they wished Lennon had "never seen a guitar," and Baird can not listen to Lennon's music, as she finds it too upsetting.

From 28 to 30 September 2007, Durness held the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival which was attended by Baird (who read from Lennon's writings and her own books) and Stanley Parkes (Lennon's Scottish cousin). Parkes said, "Me and Julia [Baird] are going to be going to the old family croft to tell stories". Musicians, painters and poets from across the UK performed at the festival. Baird now lives in Chester with her partner, Roger Keys.

Baird claims she was never told that her mother was buried in the Allerton Cemetery, in Liverpool, although the graveyard's location is approx. 1.19 miles east of 1 Blomfield Road. The grave site is unmarked, but was recently identified as "CE (Church of England) 38-805." Baird said that the Stanley family hope to finally put a headstone on her mother's grave at some point, but hopes that it will be a private affair for the family and not for the public.

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John Lennon on "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

"This was written in my Dylan days for the film Help!. When I was a teenager I used to write poetry, but was always trying to hide my real feelings.

"I was in Kenwood and I would just be songwriting and so every day I would attempt to write a song and it's one of those that you sort of sing a bit sadly to yourself, 'Here I stand, head in hand...'

"I started thinking about my own emotions--I don't know when exactly it started, like 'I'm a Loser' or 'Hide Your Love Away' or those kind of things--instead of projecting myself into a situation I would just try to express what I felt about myself which I'd done in me books. I think it was Dylan helped me realise that--not by any discussion or anything but just my hearing his work--I had a sort of professional songwriter's attitude to writing pop songs; he would turn out a certain style of song for a single and we would do a certain style of thing for this and the other thing. I was already a stylized songwriter on the first album. But to express myself I would write Spaniard in the Works or In His Own Write, the personal stories which were expressive of my personal emotions. I'd have a separate songwriting John Lennon who wrote songs for the sort of meat market, and I didn't consider them--the lyrics or anything--to have any depth at all. They were just a joke. Then I started being me about the songs, not writing them objectively, but subjectively."

"You Never Give Me Your Money" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1969)

You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
And in the middle of negotiations you break down.

I never give you my number
I only give you my situation
And in the middle of investigation I break down.

Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
All the money's gone, nowhere to go.

Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go.

But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go
Oh, that magic feeling
Nowhere to go - nowhere to go.

Aah - ooo, aah - ooo, aah - ooo.

One sweet dream
Pick up the bags, get in the limousine.
Soon we'll be away from here
Step on the gas and wipe that tear away.

One sweet dream came true today
Came true today, came true today.
Yes it did, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah - nah

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to heaven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children...

"Day Tripper"

"Day Tripper" is a song by English rock band The Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it was released as a double A-side single with "We Can Work It Out." Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The song topped the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

Composition

Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market, Lennon wrote most of the lyrics and the famous guitar hook, while McCartney helped with the verses. "Day-tripper" was a typical play on words by Lennon: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of . . . you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?" In the same interview Lennon said, "That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit." In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, he used "Day Tripper" as one example of their collaboration, where one partner had the main idea but the other took up the cause and completed it. For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.

The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a prick teaser." In Many Years From Now, McCartney admitted that "Day Tripper" was about drugs.

According to Ian MacDonald, the song "starts as a twelve-bar blues in E, which makes a feint at turning into a twelve-bar in the relative minor (i.e. the chorus) before doubling back to the expected B—another joke from a group which had clearly decided that wit was to be their new gimmick." Indeed, in 1966 McCartney said in Melody Maker that "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" (recorded three days prior) were "funny songs, songs with jokes in." McCartney provides the lead vocal and Lennon the harmony, in contrast to the Beatles' usual practice of a song's principal composer singing lead.

Recording

The song was recorded on 16 October 1965 at Abbey Road Studios. The Beatles recorded the basic rhythm track for "If I Needed Someone" after completing "Day Tripper."

The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on Past Masters, Volume Two) in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears; this may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation 1. Though not released on any album in the United Kingdom (until A Collection Of Beatles Oldies in 1966, and later in the 1962-1966, aka 'The Red Album', released in 1973) it was released in the US on the album Yesterday and Today.

Personnel

* John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal, backing vocal, rhythm/lead guitar
* Paul McCartney – double-tracked lead vocal, backing vocal, bass
* George Harrison – lead guitar
* Ringo Starr – drums

Cover versions

* The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered this song on BBC Sessions.

* Mae West covered the song on her 1966 album Way Out West. The album was re-released in 2008 on CD.

* Otis Redding's version is available on Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul.

* Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 covered this song on Herb Alpert Presents

* Anne Murray covered this song on Highly Prized Possession

* Whitesnake covered this song on Trouble

* Electric Light Orchestra covered this song on the Long Beach live album

* James Taylor covered this song on Flag

* Cheap Trick covered this song on the live Found All The Parts EP

* Sham 69 covered this song on The Game

* Yellow Magic Orchestra covered this song on the live album Public Pressure

* Daniel Ash covered this song on Coming Down

* Gene Wooten covered this song on The Great Dobro Sessions

* Ocean Colour Scene covered this song with members of Oasis on a single

* tok tok tok covered this song on 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

* Ian Hunter covered this song on Missing In Action

* The Punkles covered this song on Pistol

* Tommy Shaw covered this song on Butchering the Beatles: A Headbashing Tribute

* David Cook covered this song on Day Tripper (American Idol Studio Version)- Single

* Bad Brains covered this song in dub reggae format as a staple at live shows during the tour for I Against I.

* Type O Negative published a medley of this song on "World Coming Down"

* Lulu covered this song in 1967 on her album Love Loves to Love Lulu

* Nancy Sinatra covered the song on her album Boots

A-side: "We Can Work It Out"
Released: 3 December 1965
Format: 7"
Recorded: Abbey Road, 16 October 1965
Genre: Rock
Length: 2:46
Label: Parlophone (UK), Capitol (U.S.)
Writer(s): Lennon/McCartney
Producer: George Martin

Wikipedia

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Chris Thomas on Producing the Beatles During the White Album Sessions

"George Martin said, 'I'm going on holiday. You take over the Beatles for a little while.' So, of course, I was very nervous. But I didn't really think I was there to produce the Beatles, because I didn't really have any experience at producing. George just said, 'Go down there and make yourself available.' The Beatles had done ten songs in the previous three months, and we did ten songs in those next three weeks. So, when George came back, he was quite pleased that things were moving along. I was surprised at just how good the Beatles were playing in the studio. Considering the fact that they weren't doing any gigs, you'd imagine they'd be a bit rusty and that everything was just sort of pieced together but, no, they were great! The Beatles were a very, very good band. And they were a very funny band, as well. I had some really funny times with them.

"Every night they used to have a meeting. They were running Apple, so they'd arrive from home and go straight to the studio. Then, at one point in the day, they had to discuss business matters as well as everything else. They recorded as a band. I hadn't worked with them before, so I couldn't really tell, but I got the impression that everybody else was like the backing man. They'd all play together on the backing track. It was the four of them playing live definitely. Paul wouldn't play bass necessarily. He'd probably play the instrument he wrote the song on. He might play piano or guitar again and put the bass on later. So it was a band in that way, except they didn't play together on 'Blackbird,' for example."

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"You Like Me Too Much" Lyrics

by George Harrison

As Released by the Beatles (1965)

Though you've gone away this morning
You'll be back again tonight
Telling me there'll be no next time
If I just don't treat you right

You'll never leave me and you know it's true
'cos you like me too much and I like you

You've tried before to leave me
But you haven't got the nerve
To walk out and make me lonely
Which is all that I deserve

You'll never leave me and you know it's true
'cos you like me too much and I like you
I really do.

And it's nice when you believe me
If you leave me I will follow you
And bring you back where you belong
'cos I couldn't really stand it
I'd admit that I was wrong

I wouldn't let you leave me 'cos it's true
'cos you like me too much and I like you

'cos you like me too much and I like you
I really do

And it's nice when you believe me
If you leave me I will follow you
And bring you back where you belong
'cos I couldn't really stand it
I'd admit that I was wrong

I wouldn't let you leave me 'cos it's true
'cos you like me too much and I like you
'cos you like me too much and I like you.

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John Lennon on "Across the Universe"

"I like 'Across the Universe,' too. It's one of the best lyrics I've written. In fact, it could be the best. It's one of the best. It's good poetry, or whatever you call it. Without tune, it stands. The ones I like are ones that stand as words, without melody. They don't have to have any melody. It's a poem, you could read them."

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Featuring Denis O'Bell
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(look up my name)
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