John Lennon on "Golden Slumbers"

"That's Paul's, apparently from a poem that he found in a book, some eighteenth-century book where he just changed words here and there . . . He laid the strings on after we had finished most of the basic tracks. I personally can't be bothered with strings and things. I like to do it with the group, or electronics, you know. I can't be bothered with the hassles of the musicians and all that bit, you know. It's such a drag trying to get them together, but Paul digs that. So, that's his scene, and it was up to him where he went with the violins, really, and what he did with them. I think he just wanted a straight kind of backing, you know, nothing freaky . . . White Trash has just done a cover of 'Golden Slumbers.' They made quite a good version of that. It's pretty similar to the track we did, except they've done some nice things with a big organ, a church organ playing a solo. They've done it quite gutsy."

The Orchids - Gonna Make Him Mine

From a Beatles episode of Ready Steady Go!



The Beatles later criticized an Orchids track ("Love Hit Me") on Juke Box Jury as being too derivative of Motown girl groups.

John: Just a big con - a pinch from The Crystals and Ronettes.

Paul: It's good for a British record.

Ringo: It'll sell a few, but not many.

George: I'd rather have British groups pinch from The Crystals than the other stuff.

Unbeknownst to them at the time, the Orchids were in the audience and were pointed out by the TV host.

The Beatles in the Studio Recording "And I Love Her" (1964)

Paul McCartney: "Written at Wimpole Street, it was the first ballad I impressed myself with. It's got nice chords in it. George played really good guitar on it. It worked very well. I'm not sure if John worked on that at all. The middle eight is mine. I wrote this on my own. I can see Margaret Asher's upstairs drawing room. I remember playing it there."

Paul McCartney on "You Never Give Me Your Money"

"This was me directly lambasting Allen Klein's attitude to us. No money, just funny paper. All promises and it never works out. It's basically a song about no faith in a person."

Beatles Covers: Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends

John Lennon on "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"

"This wasn't to do with the American fans. It was when Paul and I went to America to publicize Apple about two years ago, and we were just in the flat we were staying in and he just came out with that line, 'She came in through the bathroom window.' So, he had it for years, and he eventually finished it. Most of the songs [on the album] were started back then, except for 'You Never Give Me Your Money' and 'Golden Slumbers.'"

John Lennon on "Polythene Pam"

"That was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure . . ."