Paul McCartney on "Dr. Robert"

"Well, he's like a joke. There's some fellow in New York, and in the States we'd hear people say: 'You can get everything off him; any pills you want.' It was a big racket, but a joke too about this fellow who cured everyone of everything with all these pills and tranquilizers, injections for this and that; he just kept New York high. That's what 'Dr. Robert' is all about, just a pill doctor who sees you all right. It was a joke between ourselves, but they go in in-jokes and come out out-jokes because everyone listens and puts their own thing on it, which is great. I mean, when I was young I never knew what 'Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen . . .' was all about, but I still enjoyed singing it. You put your own meaning at your own level to our songs and that's what's great about them."

"Don't Ever Change"

"Don't Ever Change" is a 1961 popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It is one of their lesser-known songs, although a version by The Crickets reached the top 5 in the United Kingdom. The Beatles performed the song on their BBC radio show Pop Go The Beatles, which was later released on their 1994 compilation Live at the BBC. It was also covered by Brinsley Schwartz on their Please Don't Ever Change album in 1973.

The Beatles' line-up:

* Paul McCartney - vocals, bass guitar
* George Harrison - vocals, solo guitar
* John Lennon - rhythm guitar
* Ringo Starr - drums

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January 2 & 3, 1969 - Get Back Sessions

In the early part of the sessions for what became Let It Be, the Beatles run through "Don't Let Me Down," "I've Got a Feeling," "Two Of Us," "Adagio for Strings," and "All Things Must Pass."

Paul McCartney on Recording Mary Hopkin and "Those Were the Days"

"I phoned Mary Hopkin and she came down and I listened to her sing in the recording studio. She was sensational, so I decided to record her. I had heard 'Those Were the Days' about two years earlier when I was out at a nightclub feasting on steak and lettuce. These two people came on and they sang this song. I think I was there about two nights that weekend. I heard the song twice, and it was one of those things I couldn't get out of my head. So I started playing it on my guitar. I always thought, you know, that it would be a hit song. But no one ever did it. I tried to get the Moody Blues to do it. They nearly did it, but it never worked out for them. It's better that they didn't actually because Graham Edge was saying to me the other day that if they had done it, they wouldn't have been into this thing they're into now. They would have had a mammoth hit and been pop stars all over again. So I recorded Mary Hopkin and she had the hit with it."

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On what you'd like to see more of in the coming year...

Beatles interviews
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Beatles photos
5 (19%)

Beatles Q&A
7 (26%)

Beatles videos
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More solo Beatles material
7 (26%)

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Beatles News

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• Beatles Have Decade's Best-Selling Album In U.S. (RTT News)
• Nowhere Boy (MovieWeb)