"Mother Nature's Son" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1968)

Born a poor young country boy - Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.

Sit beside a mountain stream - see her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.

Do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
Do do.

Find me in my field of grass - Mother Nature's son
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun.

Do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
Do do do do do - yeah yeah yeah.

Mmm mmm mmm
Ooo ooo ooo
Mmm mmm aah
Aah Mother Nature's son.

"Any Time at All"

"Any Time at All" is a Beatles song credited to Lennon & McCartney and mainly composed by John Lennon. It first appeared on The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night album.

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for "Any Time At All" were sold for £6,000 at an auction held at Sotheby's in London, on 8 April 1988.

The song was later covered by Nils Lofgren. The song was also covered by Dweezil Zappa on his 1991 album Confessions.

Recording

Incomplete when first brought into Abbey Road Studios on Tuesday 2 June 1964, Paul McCartney suggested an idea for the middle eight section based solely on chords, which was recorded with the intention of adding lyrics later. But by the time it was needed to be mixed however, the middle eight was still without words, and that is how it appears on the LP.

What did get added at the mixing stage was the snare drum "crack" that opens the track (and side two of the album) edited from an unused take.

Personnel

* John Lennon - vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar (Gibson J160E0).
* Paul McCartney - harmony vocal, bass guitar (Hofner 500/10), piano.
* George Harrison - lead guitar (Rickenbacker 360-12 Fireglo).
* Ringo Starr - drums (Ludwig).

Releases

Included on:

* Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night British EP.
* Rock 'n' Roll Music compilation LP.
* Capitol album Something New

Album: A Hard Day's Night
Released: 10 July 1964
Recorded: Abbey Road Studios, 2 June 1964
Genre: Rock
Length: 2:13
Label: EMI Records
Writer: Lennon/McCartney
Producer: George Martin

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"Something" Lyrics

by George Harrison

Original Manuscript (1969)

There's something in the way she moves
attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she wooo's me
I don't want to leave her now;
You know I believe and how;

Somewhere in her smile she knows
that I don't need no other lover,
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how.

You're asking me will my love grow,
I don't know - I don't know
You stick around and it may show
(but) I don't know, I don't know

[instrumental and counter melody]

D - C - E - C - E - A.

[You know I love that woman of mine
and I need her all of the time ...
and you know what I'm telling to you,
that woman, that woman don't make me blue.]

As Released by the Beatles (1969)

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe 'n' how.

Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe 'n' how.

You're asking me will my love grow?
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know.

Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe 'n' how.

"Misery" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

As Released by the Beatles (1963)

The world is treating me bad, misery.

I'm the kind of guy, who never used to cry.
The world is treating me bad, misery.
I've lost her now for sure, I won't see her no more
It's gonna be a drag, misery.

I'll remember all the little things we've done
Can't she see she'll always be the only one, only one.
Send her back to me, 'cos everyone can see
Without her I will be in misery.

I'll remember all the little things we've done
She'll remember and she'll miss her only one, lonely one.
Send her back to me, 'cos everyone can see
Without her I will be in misery.

(Ooho) in misery
(Ooo) my misery
(La la la la la la) misery.

"Another Girl"

"Another Girl" is a song by the the Beatles released in 1965 on the album Help! The song was written by Paul McCartney but credited to Lennon/McCartney. McCartney wrote the song while on vacation in Hammamet, a resort in Tunisia. In the film Help!, McCartney lip-syncs "Another Girl" while standing on a coral reef on Balmoral Island in the Bahamas, and plays a girl in a bikini as if she is a guitar.

McCartney said of this song and other album tracks, "It's a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it."

Recording

The Beatles recorded the song on 15 February 1965, in 1 take, with 10 edits of a George Harrison guitar "flourish" which was not used. The master take was take 1 with a guitar solo overdub by McCartney on February 16. It was remixed on 18 February and 23 February.

This is one of the first Beatle songs in which McCartney plays lead guitar, in addition to his usual bass. Music analyst and critic Ian MacDonald, and others, assign the lead guitar credit to McCartney for "Ticket to Ride," recorded the same day as the first session for "Another Girl," and one day before the lead guitar overdub for it.

Credits

* Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocal, bass, lead guitar (solo at end)
* John Lennon – harmony vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar
* George Harrison – harmony vocal, electric rhythm guitar
* Ringo Starr – drums

Album: Help!
Released: 6 August 1965
Recorded: Abbey Road Studios, 15–16 February 1965
Genre: Rock
Length: 2:04
Label: Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Writer: Lennon/McCartney
Producer: George Martin

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Beatle People: Richard Lester

Richard Lester (director) (born January 19, 1932) is an American-born British-based film director famous for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s.

Early years and television

Lester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He was something of a child prodigy, and at 15 began studies at the University of Pennsylvania, He started in television 1950, working as a stage hand, floor manager, assistant director, and then to director less than a year, because no-one else was around that knew how to do the work. In 1953, Lester moved to London and began work as a director in independent television, working for the legendary low cost television producers The Danziger Brothers on episodes of Mark Saber, a half-hour detective series.

A variety show he produced caught the eye of Peter Sellers, who enlisted Lester's help in translating The Goon Show to television as The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d. It was a hit, as were two follow-up shows, A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred.

Film career

A short film Lester made with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, was a favorite of The Beatles, and in particular John Lennon. When the band were contracted to make a film in 1964, they chose Lester from a list of possible directors. A Hard Day's Night showed an exaggerated and simplified version of The Beatles' characters, and proved to be an effective marketing tool. Many of its stylistic innovations survive today as the conventions of music videos, in particular the multi-angle filming of a live performance. Lester was sent an award from MTV as "Father of the Music Video." See IMDB for full list of Films.

Lester directed the second Beatles film Help! in 1965. He then went on to direct several quintessential 'swinging' films, including the sex comedy The Knack...And How to Get It (1965), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Petulia (1968) (both with scores by John Barry), as well as the 1967 darkly surreal anti-war movie How I Won the War co-starring John Lennon, which he referred to as an "anti-anti-war movie"; Lester noted that anti-war movies still took the concept of war seriously, contrasting "bad" war crimes with wars fought for "good" causes like the liberation from Nazism or, at that time, Communism, whereas he set out to deconstruct it to show war as fundamentally opposed to humanity. Although set in World War II, the movie is indeed an oblique reference to the Vietnam War and at one point, breaking the fourth wall, references this directly.

In the 1970s, Lester directed a wide variety of films, including the disaster film Juggernaut (1974), Robin and Marian (1976), starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn and the period romance Cuba (1979), also starring Connery. However his biggest commercial successes in this period were The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequel The Four Musketeers (1974). The films were somewhat controversial at the time because the producers, Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind, decided to split the film into two after principal photography was completed. Many of the cast sued the Salkinds as a result, stating that they were only contracted to make one film.

Superman

As the release of Superman neared, production on Superman II was halted to concentrate on getting the first movie completed. After the first Superman film was released in late 1978, the Salkinds went back into production on Superman II without informing Superman's director Richard Donner and placing Lester behind the camera for the completion of the film. Although Donner had shot approximately 75% of the film, Lester jettisoned or re-shot much of the original footage, resulting in Lester receiving sole credit for directing Superman II. Gene Hackman, who played Lex Luthor, did not return, and Lester instead used a stunt double and an impersonator to loop Luthor's lines into footage of Hackman shot during Donner's tenure on Superman II. The footage filmed by Donner was later integrated into television versions of the film with Lester's footage. In November 2006, Donner's footage was reedited into Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, using mostly Donner footage, with the only Lester footage being that which is necessary to cover scenes not shot during Donner's principal photography. Donner revealed on the new DVD of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut that he has never heard from Lester since his firing after the completion of the first film.

Lester also directed Superman III in 1983. The third Superman film fared poorly with critics, with fans divided, and did not perform quite as well at the box office as the previous two movies had, although actually, the film still managed to be within the top 10 most successful films of 1983; the number of blockbuster sequels released that year (two 007 movies, Octopussy and Never Say Never Again, Return of the Jedi and Jaws 3) made for stiff competition for Superman III. Despite the competition, naysayers tend to overlook the financial success of the movie and deem it a flop. It is generally seen as the turning point where the series went into decline. As such, Lester is blamed by some fans for helping to ruin the Superman franchise.

Later years

In 1988, Lester reunited the entire Musketeers cast to film another sequel, The Return of the Musketeers. However, during filming in Spain, the actor Roy Kinnear, a close friend of Lester's, died after falling from a horse. Lester finished the film, then retired from directing, only returning to direct a concert film for friend Paul McCartney in 1991, Get Back.

In 1993, he presented Hollywood UK, a five-part series on British cinema in the 1960s for the BBC.

In recent years, director Steven Soderbergh has been one of many calling for a reappraisal of Lester's work and influence. Soderbergh wrote a 1999 book, Getting Away With It which consists largely of interviews with Lester.

Personal life

In Soderbergh's Getting Away With It, Lester reveals that he is a committed atheist and debates with Soderbergh (then an agnostic), largely based on the arguments of Richard Dawkins.

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