Guess what? I never do this but I'm excited to tell you tomorrows video is "How The Beach Boys Made "God Only Knows". Everyone, it's such a beautiful story. Can't wait to see what you all think!
John signature song- “In My Life” Paul signature song - “Yesterday” George signature song- “Here Comes The Sun” or “Something” Ringo signature song- “Octopuses Garden” In my life I love them all
Martha B-C oh trust me, I know, I love most of the Beatles discography, I was trying to sum up each members favorite song that each member individually is credited with
I saw Paul in an interview saying that"Yesterday " was all his but that he'd had nothing to do with "In My Life" and that it was all John's -- except for the sweet guitar intro and ending. He said George came up with that and to him, it "made the song".
I agree!!!!!!! There are 2 videos where Paul contradicts himself in regards to the song Help, one Paul says John wrote the song and I wrote the counterpoint. In another he said John and I wrote it together. I believe the first is where John said " the song Help was me crying out for help you know I had gotten fat and all " So it is possible Paul is remembering wrong!!!!! John was real and " The Walrus was Paul "
It's a Paul melody but a John lyric. They always worked best as a team and/or a semi-team. Paul admired John's ability to write fantastic lyrics easily & John admired Paul's ability to easily write fantastic melodies quickly. That's what drew both of them together as a song writing team and very successful at the same time!
@@AndyMann0007 It is not Paul's melody. It is John's. By the time of 'in my life' John and Paul were writing their own songs rather than together like for 'she loves you'.
Danny Vine They started writing together or giving input in 1965 like on this song and with less dispute on more songs that year like “You’re Going to Loose That Girl” “Drive My Car” “We Can Work it Out” “Norwegian Wood” “Day Tripper” “The Word” they wrote a lot together that year actually Paul recalls going to John’s mansion frequently to write together for sessions
@@devinjerryfreedomisfree4599 Michelle, We Can Work it Out, etc., were all mainly Paul's songs virtually complete when John heard them. The same can be said for Norwegian wood and Day tripper by John. Only the arrangements needed organising. The word I would agree was more colliborative. Very few Lennon- McCartney songs were equal billing / input.
@@Wired4Life2 for sure, they can surely count as "entertainment" measuring parameters. Not art. They are just events where rich people pat themselves on the back. But again art is subjective. So you are again correct.
@@currentwork4353 Agree, I think it's impossible to analyze The Beatles' Genius or Quantify, or ( Especially ) to Categorize their Genre into Any or Only one Genre. They Were "A Movement" .
In My Life is in my top 5 songs of all time, ever(at least two other spots in my top five are held by the Beatles, being that they are my favorite band of all time). The lyrics are simply wonderful, the melody so memorable, and piano solo, it’s all there. It’s just awesome!
How Michelle won a grammy over a song as great as “In My Life” is unbelievable...the latter is a superior song, musically, lyrically, tonally and melody wise. It’s the perfect pop track, from the opening guitar riff to Lennon’s falsetto that ends the tune. Always magnificently choreographed and written. There was nothing as good as this at the time of its release and has never been since. Rubber Soul was a ground breaking album and a game changing catalyst for the band itself. George Martins half speed piano is a beautiful flavour and McCartneys harmony is as always awesome. It’s interesting that Paul dis-agrees/or remembers differently, as to who actually wrote the track but if John says he did then I believe him...he was always honest about his input or lack of on the other bands tracks and was equally straight about what he wrote. My favourite Beatles track alongside “A Day In The Life”. So many glorious songs to choose from. The Beatles are beyond definition and most certainly beyond comparison....the greatest by a proverbial mile of all time.♥️🎵x
A modeling study was done in 2018 that indicated that the melody was all John with a * .018% * probability that Paul wrote the song. Bags-of-words modeling is what was used.
I always thought it was a John song ... I’m sure Paul, George and Ringo put their heart into it too... 🙏🏼 together they were all so brilliant 🎵 🎶 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
One of their most esteemed tunes. You either know it or you don't and if you DO,it's one Beatles song you simply cannot dislike. The words mean everything.
@@oliverfield877 Just in case you're too dim to realise, and I suspect you are, I think of it as a Beatles song, sung by John and written by Lennon/McCartney
"Is it a collaboration?" Musically, yes. That much is clear, according to both writers. The lyric was John's. The question is: How much of the music was John's, how much Paul's. According to John, Paul wrote the tune for "the middle eight itself" and the harmony for the rest. Of course there isn't a middle eight, but we know John must mean the tune of the B part ("I know that I will never lose affection / For people and things that went before / I know I'll always stop and think about them / In my life I love you more"). Oddly this sounds if anything more like John, whereas the A part ("There are places . . . " etc) seems more like Paul, but there you go! A recent statistical analysis famously claimed to have proved that John wrote the whole tune. But the same analysis "proved" that Paul wrote the whole tune of Michelle, when we know for sure that John had a hand in the middle eight; and it also "proved" that Paul wrote the tune of The Word, which is supposed to be a John song. So I think this should be disregarded. Reality is too complicated for such simplistic bean-counting. Is there a compromise solution? I think so. Paul recalls writing the whole tune on a visit to Kenwood. But it seems unlikely that John had no notion of a tune *at all* - this was a song that had been work in progress for a while in different versions by that time. To give both men the benefit of the doubt, what may have happened is : John had an idea for the A part and suggested this to Paul when he gave him the words ("I was trying ity like this - whaddaya think?" or something); Paul took this in and produced an A part tune based on that, adding the B part tune to it ; later it seemed to Paul as if he had written the whole tune, having absorbed John's original idea into his own arrangement. Speculation, obviously. But they could both have been conscientiously remembering half truths.
I was thinking the same thing having read Barry Miles's book - this seems most plausible to me - John sang the A melody to Paul but probably didn't have it completely down - and it needed to be different for the B melody - Paul approximated what John had sung for first melody and probably resolved it a little (hence causing the confusion) and then did the B melody - totally agree. It's certainly a John song but a big hand from Paul.
@@stephengow9590 Thanks, Stephen. Actually i just discovered a comment from John that throws more confusion into this. Here he is talking in 1980 about If I Fell: ""The harmony's Paul's ... and maybe the middle eight, let me think ... yeah [sings the verse through] that's all mine. I think maybe the middle eight he introduced the chord in there. I might have mixed up the story on the middle eight to In My Life and this one - I think it's *this* one he gave me the middle eight, on the F." (amoralto.tumblr.com/post/48091904152/august-1980-john-talks-to-playboy-writer-david) So what do we make of that? It absolutely confirms how tricky memory can be. On one hand you could say "There is now no evidence from John that support's Paul's claim to have written any part of In My Life". On the other hand, one could argue it undermines everything John thought he remembered about the music, which would strengthen Paul's 1971 claim to have written it. I don't know! What do you think? (Howsoever, it's very interesting that John credited the beautiful middle eight of If I Fell to Paul. Paul has only said they wrote it "together, but with the emphasis on John", without being specific.)
Thank you for pointing out that study was completely illegitimate. In my life has the octave rhyming and the lyrical rhyming progression with the melody that are only found in Paul songs
Lennon said "his contribution melodically was the harmony and the middle-eight itself." McCartney claimed he set Lennon's lyrics to music from beginning to end, taking inspiration for the melody from songs by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. "I liked 'In My Life'. Those were words that John wrote, and I wrote the tune to it. That was a great one."] A 2018 study that used bag-of-words modelling to analyze the song indicated that the music was entirely composed by Lennon. Based on the analysis, mathematician Keith Devlin reported a .018% probability of McCartney writing the song.
Great video and channel man! I am in the process of reviewing every Beatles album on my channel and some of your videos have been helpful in the research process! This is one of my favorite songs of all time... Lennon was a genius!
Just checked out your channel! Very good stuff, I like that part in your trailer when you mention those boring "reactions to famous songs". That was funny and too true.
The HollyHobs Thanks a lot my dude, appreciate it! One of the reasons I like your channel so much is that you actually learn something and it’s VERY well edited. You have a great personality to boot, and that makes for a fantastic channel. Keep up the good work my friend! 👍🏻
Rewriting the Beatles history and grabbing somebody’s intellectual property just because the person cannot defend himself anymore?? What a friend! Now I know why George is much closer to John..
Great job, as usual. Financial implications aside, I think it is best to consider all songs written by either of them to have been written by both. They were, even in the tortuous end years, soulmates. They influenced each other, even when it was unconscious. Even the bulk of their solo catalogs show the ongoing influence. In fact, "In My Life" talks exactly about this, how places and people affect us, influence us, mold us. Neither John nor Paul would be himself, had it not been for the other. Thanks for another thought-provoking video about some of the most thought-provoking songs ever written.
I do get a little worked up over the Who wrote What debate. I'm a hardcore JL fan but I still think PM is beyond brilliant. I can easily envision JL writing the lyrics and chord progressions and PM writing the melody and the opening lick. I can just easily envision JL writing all of it but the middle eight, which he gave PM credit for creating. I can also imagine them both working on it together starting with JL's original inspiration. All of these scenarios are plausible because as songwriters they were both so flexible in that they could both write hard rockers, sensitive ballads & Top 10 pop hits with equal ease. Personally, and not without bias, I call it a John song with pieces of Paul sprinkled on top.
I've always loved this song, I sometimes play it myself and it always makes me think of all the people that I have known, who have passed through my life.
John certainly wrote the lyrics and I would not be surprised if Paul contributed to the melody. And of course, George Martin's piano piece is brilliant... Good video, man.! Thanks for posting!
One of the most beat songs ever written. I think of this one whenever I think back to not seeing a group of people regularly anymore (i.e. post high school)
As obsession tends to do to one, we who awaited every sound out of the Beatles most likely assumed this was John’s song. But more importantly it was a Great Beatle gift to us all....so utterly beautiful.
I'm just glad the song was made regardless who made it. It speaks for all of us in our lives we've been loved and given love as well as memories of. Place having there moments with people and friends we all can recall and the rest I say thank you lads, and God Bless You The Beatles will be forever Loved
To insist that it is a “John song” or “Paul wrote it” is to ignore the creative process. John. Paul and George Martin pushed each other to create. George Harrison chimed in routinely, coming up with better guitar licks than originally composed and Ringo added just the right touch with his drum kit. All four Beatles and the production team pushed themselves to make the music. I worked for over 30 years in the field of television production and post-production. Producers I worked with pushed and inspired me to do my best and I pushed producers regularly to outdo their previous efforts. Additionally, the Beatles did not make music in a vacuum, and this video touches on this fact, as a random question from a reporter caused John to challenge himself to write a song based on his own experiences and introspection. Additionally, there were other musicians that the Beatles knew or read about that were doing new things and the Beatles’ music shows these influences as well. In the midst of any creative process, there is origination and execution. The Beatles fired a drummer who had issues with execution and hired Ringo. Their breakup was an issue of their need to originate more, knowing that there was a vast talent pool that they could, then, draw on for execution. I would state with certainty that Ringo Starr, the Beatle credited for no original composition, was a master of execution. When they went into the studio to record, they started out at the demo state, where Ringo would listen and start to complement what he heard on drums. As the tune came together, he would play all day and into the wee hours of the morning to get the song done and recorded. He worked as hard as anyone. Lose Ringo Starr and you completely lose the music. Lose George Harrison and, likewise, you lose the music. Writing credits were Lennon and McCartney mostly, as they were most involved in that process of origination. But I’m certain neither John or Paul told Ringo what to play. The credit on “In My Life” is Lennon and McCartney. That is a true statement.
Thank you Mark Hollis for your perspective from working in the entertainment industry. I enjoyed the process of originating versus execution life lesson. I understand perfectly because I have worked 30 years as part of a health team. Team usually is what gets the end result but rarely the praise...Doctors, Running backs,Quarterbacks, Presidents and Pitchers in Baseball are the heroes but could never have done anything without the team. I like how you pointed out George and Ringo being executors of the musical end result and there is also George Martin and who plays the harpischord?? I think a lot of us don't put a lot of thought into the process involved. It's easy to just recognize the names who wrote the song and not really give credit where credit is due. So I think this has to be a Beatles song especially that it makes sense that both John and Paul may not agree on exactly who wrote what part, they definently both say they both worked on it. I thank you for opening my eyes to the process. I should have remembered that there is a story behind every song.
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I grew up with "The Beatles" as I was 15 when they released "Love Me Do" and I followed them thereafter getting all their albums. I saw them when I was 16 and got 4 tickets for which I only paid £3 or about $4. In my opinion this song is mainly John's, he always contributed the deeper more thoughtful lyrics. He was a bit heavy and caustic and Paul was lighter and more cheerful. The combination of the two made them the perfect songwriters of their generation. Their songs made stars out of nobodies.
Great video, my friend. In My Life has always been my favourite Beatles track by far. The melody, the words, chord structure and amazing ‘harpsichord’ solo makes it a real signature song. The drums are kind of the same as on All I’ve Got to Do, I always thought that was funny.
Definitely mostly John's song, but I think Macca helped with the melody quite a bit. And your point isnt always true, for example, Eight Days A Week is mostly a Paul song, yet John sings it, and Every Little Thing is mostly Paul and Lennon sings that one as well. Day Tripper is mostly Lennon, yet Paul sings the lead there. So while generally true, there remain exceptions.
@@tysonjorstad it sounds like a double tracked John singing lead, however it's both John and Paul singing lead together. Paul was great at imitating John.
My memory is that the evolution of this song began as a retrospective on the places and people in Liverpool that the Beatles had encountered in their early lives. It then evolved into this one, a song with an outstanding first verse and a fairly standard second verse, and of course featuring the classical Beatles' harmonies. I also seem to recall someone referring to it as John's first certifiable work of genius. Great and memorable, but largely on the strength of that first verse.
I realize people like to dissect and peruse every nuance of meaning in these songs but the takeaway of this composition is how it resonates with each individual listener. Ringo's oblique drum track, John's bittersweet vocal, Martin's Baroque input all coalesce into a poignant remembrance of things past.
If you see the handwritten original lyrics to the song before Paul even saw it, you can see the only line that hasn't been crossed out, apart from the three verses, is "all these places..", which is the first line of the bridge which he credits Paul with melodically. I think he knew pretty much where it was going and figured he'd work the rest out with Paul.
Mr. Kite, A Day in the Life, and now this song? Wow, next time we'll hear Paul saying he can recollect writing Imagine on a napkin and slipping it on John's pocket because he thought it'd be funny.
They never disagreed on how A day in the life was written. See John's interviews, he says it's his song with Paul's part in the middle and the little lick was Paul's as well as the idea for the orchestration.
I could describe this song as a John's story told by Paul's words with strong John's spirit, and it's delivered thru Paul's melody with strong impression of a John's song. idk if this makes sense Nonetheless it's John's true-to-self lyrics and Paul's melodic genius that made this phenomenal song so rewarding and it's my eternal fav of the Beatles
Well I've never been into the whole John vs Paul thing. I love them both (And I don't want to forget to mention how awesome George Harrison was as a song writer.), and whenever I hear one and think, "Yeah, I like him best." I'll hear something from the other and go, "but wait a moment". lol That being said, I'm giving this one to John. Only because Martin says it was a John song and doesn't mention Macca at all. When two geniuses disagree, best to listen to a third, unbiased genius to settle the matter.
It’s got the tell tale Lennon melismas, lots of Lennonesque pentatonic phrasing. The first melodic figure could be McCartney’s. I do think Paul has penchant for over claiming authorship especially after John’s death which is really sad as he has so much to be proud of.
@@ewest14 he claims to have written/contributed lots of things - the intro to If I Fell for example, even though we have a solo Lennon ‘63 demo of the song with a different ending. He may have done and written a lot of things. No one talks about Lennon writing harmonic and melodic content to Yellow Submarine’s verses. The thing is Lennon is not around to respond and memories fade as well. I’m a big McCartney fan but when Lennon got killed it made him a martyr and that eclipsed McCartney and his contribution which led to many years from now and some overreaching. McCartney is totally amazing
@@dogmatronic Try thinking about this a different way. Lennon got all of his side of the story out from 70-80. Paul never felt the need to do it until after John died and Phillip Norman released his Shout with a false history of the band. That along with Lennon's interviews with Jann Wenner, which were heavily biased and provided false information to fans. For example John says he wrote 80% of Eleanor Rigby, which was proven to be untrue because even John's best friend said that John contributed basically nothing. John's own best friend backed Paul's story of John only helping with half a line. Paul knew that he had to set the record straight, even though he knew that it would look like him trying to revise history. So in reality, it's Paul fixing an already revisionist history.
2 Points ...1 The major shift in John’s writing is at this time and with this song but this is also the exact time they discovered pot and Dylan and John also said that pot gave him the window to no longer need to separate his song writing from his book writing - now he knew how to write personal songs ... 2. They couldn’t say it was just another Lennon & Mccartney song bcs later they were both asked specifically about who contributed what to each song - people wanted to know there recollections of this - John gave an interview to (Playboy Mag ithink) in 1980 was asked to recall every single song and how they came about -Paul later did a smaller/similar analysis in his memoir Many Years From Now - so I think thats why - thanks for the video - keep it up!!
It’s a without a doubt a John song. I believe what happened was it was John’s idea, then Paul came along and took out lyrics and maybe added a couple of his own. George Harrison probably helped with the guitar riff (similar to how he came up with the riff in And I Love Her) but it also could have been Paul. Then you add the beautiful piano solo by George Martin and Ringos simple but perfect beat. So, maybe it wasn’t a John song...it was a Beatles song lol
John Lennon stated in the Playboy interview just months before his death ,September. 1980 quote ...”now in my life Paul wrote the middle-eight melody. The whole lyrics were already written before Paul even heard it . In “ In my life” his contribution melodically was the harmony and the middle eight itself.
Haha. I often try to do what many comments here have attempted. To choose the signature or best songs of this Beatle or that Beatle, or the Beatles generally. But it is pretty much impossible. I once had some time on my hands and tried to list the top 10 essential Beatles songs. I couldn’t do it, so I expanded the list to 20. I still couldn’t do it, so I went to 30! And at 30, I still felt guilty about so many songs that I had left out. A fun exercise, this, but in the end, impossible!!!
I chose to walk up the aisle at my one and only son's wedding to "In My Life," played on a harp. I'd wondered if I would cry during the wedding...well, at the first NOTES, I started, and sort of cried through the whole ceremony! In my speech, I quoted Lennon's thoughts on love. God, I love John and Paul, still today.
In my life it's a song written by John, but that doesn't mean that Paul couldn't give him any important advice. The extraordinary thing about the songs by Lennon - McCartney is that even if Paul wrote a song himself, he asked John for advice and so did John with Paul. If the advice was followed, even if it concerned only 1% of the song, it often gave her something more, making it an absolute masterpiece.
When you played the alternate lyrics, I discovered the power of this song. In the alternate lyrics, Lennon is *_very specific,_* naming places that mattered to him. This would have made the song important to him, but no one else. Compare this to the final lyrics, which are *_more general, and more about universal feelings._* This allows the listener to insert *_their own_* people, places, relationships, and experiences. In that regard, it transformed into a thing wherein everyone can find value.
We played this song for the recessional at my wedding. My first thought was to play a string quartet version similar to something I'd heard on UA-cam, but when I couldn't one similar available anywhere to purchase that would let me listen to a sample first (to make sure it was what I wanted!), I decided screw it, we will play the original, and we did! It was beautiful!
This song came out on their LP Rubber Soul. Although this album has outright songs by individual songwriters Lennon, McCartney & Harrison, John & Paul were still collaborating, sitting down with guitars, eyeball to eyeball for some of the songs: "Drive My Car" & "The Word" are two. I think Paul's recollection is correct. John was struggling with the words & then changed them after he & Paul had a guitar session together as they used to do when they were touring, writing together in hotel rooms or on the tour bus, guitar to guitar. So it is entirely feasible that Paul contributed more to the guitar changes/melody than Lennon did, while the song used Lennon's words entirely. And it should be noted that their collaborations extended into the "Sgt Pepper" album on songs like "With A Little Help From My Friends," "It's Getting Better" & "A Day In The Life," although the latter was more of a hybrid of putting two different songs together - - still, they seem to be working very closely together on this as well when one takes into account that they 'together' decided to put in the 'drug reference' of "turn you on."
Paul is more than likely goofing on us. This is John's song and John decalared this early on. John used to give many interviews and mix nonsense in with truth about song writing...example he said he wrote 50 per cent of Elenor Rigby which he did not........no doubt he did this to blurr the line for Beatle' s fans to keep them guessing who did what and not to deduce that one person was the beatles.............because the beatles were truly a dynamic group....After John dyed Paul was the only one to keep some of mystery alive. John said early on this was his song, maybe a little help from Paul......it does not sound like Paul' s style.
In my life was the very first song I knew when I was starting to learn how to sing when I was around 4 or 5 years old listening on a Parlopone 45rpm record playing it over and over again and the other side was Run for your Life.
The song is a good song to fit any person. Anyone can relate to this. It is suitably vague and easily sung. Easy to remember, too. Every time I see a video where someone comments on a Beatles song, there's always a comment about "well this led to their breakup." Nothing could be farther from the truth. Paul has said himself that in a year's time, the Beatles' style evolved quickly, the style changed rapidly. They were just creating and making songs. *Rubber Soul* was one of those big evolutions of music. That and *Revolver* were great experimental and growing performances. Remember the Beatles never had a dry studio session, and Paul said they wrote more songs than got on the records. The ones that got on the records were the ones they could remember. It seems to me a good test of a song's staying power if you can remember it. They didn't write the music, only played it. *In My Life* was a Beatles song, even if you can distinguish who did what. It's no different than being able to parse out who sang what notes in the harmonies of, say, *Nowhere Man* You did listen to *Peter and the Wolf* and *Young People's Guide to the Orchestra* when you were young, didn't you?
Paul hardly needs to claim any extra credit if he knows he didn't completely write the music. His place in history was secured over 50 years ago. Paul saying that we should not take his memory here categorically is very revealing. Paul is being really honest, in my opinion, and his unsureness about the whole episode is refreshing. I tend to go with how Paul remembers it. The music is Paulist and the words Lennonist.
it's 100% a John song in my opinion, and it's unfortunate that Paul takes so much credit for things after John's passing when John can't refute any of Paul's claims.
I hear very little of Paul in this song. He may have helped a bit, but for me, "In My Life" is very similar structurally to John's song "Girl" and is pure John with a little help from his friend Paul.
I did agree about the notion of not writing it together. The bit about go have some tea still falls within the milieu of their deliberate Weybridge songwriting meetings. As Paul's anecdote suggests that doesn't mean they had to head to head the whole time. I seem to recall that Here, There and Everywhere came about in a moment at Weybridge too when John was distracted with something else or perhaps while Paul was waiting for Cynthia to rouse John from his bed.
I've sat down and analyzed the melodies that John wrote versus Paul. In short, the melody of 'In My Life' does a lot of vocal modulation that almost never appears in Paul's songs. But, there are note intervals that almost never appears in John's work. While I firmly believe that the lyrics are definitely John, the melodic was co-written as it progressed. We've be very fortunate to see and hear many of their sessions like a fly on the wall. They chipped into each other's work. They were still a friendly working environment at the time so it seems very likely it evolved. (There were a lot of drugs then, too (wink))
Paul's memory of such things as who wrote what is not nearly as precise as John's was. He often blusters, blunders or creates a myth that he then believes. This is clearly a John chord progression, which doesn't seem to be in dispute. The melody is almost certainly John's as it starts with one of John's signature moves: the first note on the first downbeat is a 9. He did this a lot and it's really, really tricky to do but John did it quite a bit. On the other hand, Paul writing the melody to what John calls the middle 8 is actually Paul writing the melody to the chorus. That melody really does sound like Paul. The verses though, not so much.
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Guess what? I never do this but I'm excited to tell you tomorrows video is "How The Beach Boys Made "God Only Knows". Everyone, it's such a beautiful story. Can't wait to see what you all think!
Hey Hobs!, can you please make a video about the turtles "happy together"
@@Sugi05 Great Idea! I absolutely love that song, I'll see what I can do.
@@JamesMaharajOfficial thanks! You're the best
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Here's another video idea: "how The HollyHobs made their first album"
John signature song- “In My Life”
Paul signature song - “Yesterday”
George signature song- “Here Comes The Sun” or “Something”
Ringo signature song- “Octopuses Garden”
In my life I love them all
judedude John and Paul both have many more signature songs tho
Martha B-C oh trust me, I know, I love most of the Beatles discography, I was trying to sum up each members favorite song that each member individually is credited with
John's signature song is Strawberry Fields. Everyone knows that was his favorite song.
Though he didn't write it, Ringo's signature song is "Yellow Submarine," IMHO.
Hahahaha best comment!!
To my ear, it's John all over. He was on fire on Rubber Soul.
*Girls*
Anna Kermode Paul said he wrote the melody and chords.
Rubber Soul and Revolver are my favourite albums.
So many simple but profound songs
@@detroitfunk313 the best songs on Pepper are John songs
I wholeheartedly agree. It's a John song---and John was at his best on Rubber Soul.
The line "some forever, not for better.." is brilliant, tender, bittersweet, and all Mr. Lennon.
Its something every human being can relate to and feel. Masterpiece
sweet melancholy
I saw Paul in an interview saying that"Yesterday " was all his but that he'd had nothing to do with "In My Life" and that it was all John's -- except for the sweet guitar intro and ending. He said George came up with that and to him, it "made the song".
I agree with Elaine. Now please take your seats, class.
I agree!!!!!!! There are 2 videos where Paul contradicts himself in regards to the song Help, one Paul says John wrote the song and I wrote the counterpoint. In another he said John and I wrote it together. I believe the first is where John said " the song Help was me crying out for help you know I had gotten fat and all " So it is possible Paul is remembering wrong!!!!!
John was real and " The Walrus was Paul "
I didn't see that
@@jackdemolay3545 he never says anything but that they wrote it together
Now THIS makes more sense. That guitar bit sounds a LOT like George
In My Life is my favorite song ever. The nostalgia and the memories I have with this song in my life...simply amazing
It's a John song with Paul's flavor and George Martins piano solo
It's a Paul melody but a John lyric. They always worked best as a team and/or a semi-team. Paul admired John's ability to write fantastic lyrics easily & John admired Paul's ability to easily write fantastic melodies quickly. That's what drew both of them together as a song writing team and very successful at the same time!
@@AndyMann0007 It is not Paul's melody. It is John's. By the time of 'in my life' John and Paul were writing their own songs rather than together like for 'she loves you'.
Danny Vine They started writing together or giving input in 1965 like on this song and with less dispute on more songs that year like “You’re Going to Loose That Girl” “Drive My Car” “We Can Work it Out” “Norwegian Wood” “Day Tripper” “The Word” they wrote a lot together that year actually Paul recalls going to John’s mansion frequently to write together for sessions
@@devinjerryfreedomisfree4599 Michelle, We Can Work it Out, etc., were all mainly Paul's songs virtually complete when John heard them. The same can be said for Norwegian wood and Day tripper by John. Only the arrangements needed organising. The word I would agree was more colliborative. Very few Lennon- McCartney songs were equal billing / input.
@@devinjerryfreedomisfree4599 " lose " that girl, not " loose ".
As an engineer, I can only draw from my own experience and say the best collaboration is when you leave not knowing who contributed what.
as a gardener, I agree
That’s quite beautiful.
Am I the only one who wishes that "In My Life" had won Song of the Year at the 9th Grammy Awards instead of "Michelle"?
Awards are bullshit, no one should think too much about them. Enjoy the art, man.
Especially Grammy's. Always decades behind.
@@mator2339 *On the contrary, sales and awards are the two sides of the coin of success in the entertainment industry.*
@@Wired4Life2 for sure, they can surely count as "entertainment" measuring parameters. Not art. They are just events where rich people pat themselves on the back.
But again art is subjective. So you are again correct.
@@mator2339 *Perhaps, but artists have to eat eventually. XD*
Everytime you post a video I literally go “Yes!”
Same
The only youtuber i watch every video of when released
To state that "In My Life" was John Lennon's first introspective song ignores his earlier plea in "Help!".
Exactly
@@currentwork4353 Agree, I think it's impossible to analyze The Beatles' Genius or Quantify, or ( Especially ) to Categorize their Genre into Any or Only one Genre. They Were "A Movement" .
And before Help, there was I'm A Loser. And before I'm A Loser there was I'll Cry Instead.
But John was still hiding his emotions in "Help" while "In My life" is fairly out front in his emotions.
In My Life is in my top 5 songs of all time, ever(at least two other spots in my top five are held by the Beatles, being that they are my favorite band of all time). The lyrics are simply wonderful, the melody so memorable, and piano solo, it’s all there. It’s just awesome!
How Michelle won a grammy over a song as great as “In My Life” is unbelievable...the latter is a superior song, musically, lyrically, tonally and melody wise. It’s the perfect pop track, from the opening guitar riff to Lennon’s falsetto that ends the tune. Always magnificently choreographed and written. There was nothing as good as this at the time of its release and has never been since. Rubber Soul was a ground breaking album and a game changing catalyst for the band itself. George Martins half speed piano is a beautiful flavour and McCartneys harmony is as always awesome. It’s interesting that Paul dis-agrees/or remembers differently, as to who actually wrote the track but if John says he did then I believe him...he was always honest about his input or lack of on the other bands tracks and was equally straight about what he wrote.
My favourite Beatles track alongside “A Day In The Life”. So many glorious songs to choose from. The Beatles are beyond definition and most certainly beyond comparison....the greatest by a proverbial mile of all time.♥️🎵x
A modeling study was done in 2018 that indicated that the melody was all John with a * .018% * probability that Paul wrote the song. Bags-of-words modeling is what was used.
I always thought it was a John song ... I’m sure Paul, George and Ringo put their heart into it too... 🙏🏼 together they were all so brilliant 🎵 🎶 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
To me the melody is evocative of the many simple, melancholy pieces by Paul, but it's long been considered John's song and no reason to dispute it.
In my life is the best songs ever written
You're one of the few people I've heard sing a Beatles song and treat it with respect while letting your great voice shine through.
One of their most esteemed tunes. You either know it or you don't and if you DO,it's one Beatles song you simply cannot dislike. The words mean everything.
This is John's... Only he can pull out so much soul and emotion.
It's not a John song or a lennon/mccartney song.
Its a Beatles song
All The Beatles played on it but not all of them wrote it. I say it's a Lennon/McCartney song.
@@CB-xr1eg when you think of "In My Life" do you think of it as a song by The Beatles or by Lennon/Mccartney?
@@oliverfield877 What a stupid fucking question! My comment states quite clearly what I regard it as.
@@oliverfield877 Just in case you're too dim to realise, and I suspect you are, I think of it as a Beatles song, sung by John and written by Lennon/McCartney
ah, a semantics lover. How sad.
My favorite Beatles song. It always makes me teary-eyed.
"Is it a collaboration?" Musically, yes. That much is clear, according to both writers. The lyric was John's. The question is: How much of the music was John's, how much Paul's.
According to John, Paul wrote the tune for "the middle eight itself" and the harmony for the rest. Of course there isn't a middle eight, but we know John must mean the tune of the B part ("I know that I will never lose affection / For people and things that went before / I know I'll always stop and think about them / In my life I love you more"). Oddly this sounds if anything more like John, whereas the A part ("There are places . . . " etc) seems more like Paul, but there you go!
A recent statistical analysis famously claimed to have proved that John wrote the whole tune. But the same analysis "proved" that Paul wrote the whole tune of Michelle, when we know for sure that John had a hand in the middle eight; and it also "proved" that Paul wrote the tune of The Word, which is supposed to be a John song. So I think this should be disregarded. Reality is too complicated for such simplistic bean-counting.
Is there a compromise solution? I think so.
Paul recalls writing the whole tune on a visit to Kenwood. But it seems unlikely that John had no notion of a tune *at all* - this was a song that had been work in progress for a while in different versions by that time. To give both men the benefit of the doubt, what may have happened is : John had an idea for the A part and suggested this to Paul when he gave him the words ("I was trying ity like this - whaddaya think?" or something); Paul took this in and produced an A part tune based on that, adding the B part tune to it ; later it seemed to Paul as if he had written the whole tune, having absorbed John's original idea into his own arrangement.
Speculation, obviously. But they could both have been conscientiously remembering half truths.
I was thinking the same thing having read Barry Miles's book - this seems most plausible to me - John sang the A melody to Paul but probably didn't have it completely down - and it needed to be different for the B melody - Paul approximated what John had sung for first melody and probably resolved it a little (hence causing the confusion) and then did the B melody - totally agree. It's certainly a John song but a big hand from Paul.
@@stephengow9590 Thanks, Stephen. Actually i just discovered a comment from John that throws more confusion into this. Here he is talking in 1980 about If I Fell:
""The harmony's Paul's ... and maybe the middle eight, let me think ... yeah [sings the verse through] that's all mine. I think maybe the middle eight he introduced the chord in there. I might have mixed up the story on the middle eight to In My Life and this one - I think it's *this* one he gave me the middle eight, on the F."
(amoralto.tumblr.com/post/48091904152/august-1980-john-talks-to-playboy-writer-david)
So what do we make of that? It absolutely confirms how tricky memory can be. On one hand you could say "There is now no evidence from John that support's Paul's claim to have written any part of In My Life". On the other hand, one could argue it undermines everything John thought he remembered about the music, which would strengthen Paul's 1971 claim to have written it. I don't know! What do you think? (Howsoever, it's very interesting that John credited the beautiful middle eight of If I Fell to Paul. Paul has only said they wrote it "together, but with the emphasis on John", without being specific.)
Thank you for pointing out that study was completely illegitimate.
In my life has the octave rhyming and the lyrical rhyming progression with the melody that are only found in Paul songs
Lennon said "his contribution melodically was the harmony and the middle-eight itself." McCartney claimed he set Lennon's lyrics to music from beginning to end, taking inspiration for the melody from songs by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. "I liked 'In My Life'. Those were words that John wrote, and I wrote the tune to it. That was a great one."] A 2018 study that used bag-of-words modelling to analyze the song indicated that the music was entirely composed by Lennon. Based on the analysis, mathematician Keith Devlin reported a .018% probability of McCartney writing the song.
For me...WITHOUT ANY DOUBT THE MOST TOUCHING ,AND BEAUTIFUL WORDS EVER WRITTEN TO MUSIC....
Great video and channel man! I am in the process of reviewing every Beatles album on my channel and some of your videos have been helpful in the research process! This is one of my favorite songs of all time... Lennon was a genius!
Just checked out your channel! Very good stuff, I like that part in your trailer when you mention those boring "reactions to famous songs". That was funny and too true.
The HollyHobs Thanks a lot my dude, appreciate it! One of the reasons I like your channel so much is that you actually learn something and it’s VERY well edited. You have a great personality to boot, and that makes for a fantastic channel. Keep up the good work my friend! 👍🏻
One of my favourite Beatles track! Thanks for this!
Rewriting the Beatles history and grabbing somebody’s intellectual property just because the person cannot defend himself anymore?? What a friend! Now I know why George is much closer to John..
Paul claimed that in the 70s before John died
One of the best song ever written.
Great job, as usual.
Financial implications aside, I think it is best to consider all songs written by either of them to have been written by both. They were, even in the tortuous end years, soulmates. They influenced each other, even when it was unconscious. Even the bulk of their solo catalogs show the ongoing influence.
In fact, "In My Life" talks exactly about this, how places and people affect us, influence us, mold us. Neither John nor Paul would be himself, had it not been for the other.
Thanks for another thought-provoking video about some of the most thought-provoking songs ever written.
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My favourite song “ in my life”
ur second kid hahaah
It's a great John song with Paul melody and a great piano bridge by Martin. It's in the top 5 and as great as Eleanor Rigby.
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Second being a douche bag maybe
I do get a little worked up over the Who wrote What debate. I'm a hardcore JL fan but I still think PM is beyond brilliant. I can easily envision JL writing the lyrics and chord progressions and PM writing the melody and the opening lick. I can just easily envision JL writing all of it but the middle eight, which he gave PM credit for creating. I can also imagine them both working on it together starting with JL's original inspiration. All of these scenarios are plausible because as songwriters they were both so flexible in that they could both write hard rockers, sensitive ballads & Top 10 pop hits with equal ease. Personally, and not without bias, I call it a John song with pieces of Paul sprinkled on top.
I've always loved this song, I sometimes play it myself and it always makes me think of all the people that I have known, who have passed through my life.
I only found this channel yesterday and its one of my favorites!
I found this channel by his video about The Beatles "Yesterday" lol.
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when all your troubles seems so faraway
John's words.
Paul's melody.
George Martins middle eight.
John's personal experience.
John's song with a little help from his friends.
The last line is the answer
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NOT Paul's melody lol thats what Paul would lead you to believe. I'll go with the songwriter John and producer George Martin vs Paul wanting credit
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I don't think Paul would lie.
He loved John.
@@markrymanowski719he didn't! he just love himself
John certainly wrote the lyrics and I would not be surprised if Paul contributed to the melody. And of course, George Martin's piano piece is brilliant... Good video, man.! Thanks for posting!
One of the most beat songs ever written.
I think of this one whenever I think back to not seeing a group of people regularly anymore (i.e. post high school)
As obsession tends to do to one, we who awaited every sound out of the Beatles most likely assumed this was John’s song. But more importantly it was a Great Beatle gift to us all....so utterly beautiful.
I'm just glad the song was made regardless who made it. It speaks for all of us in our lives we've been loved and given love as well as memories of. Place having there moments with people and friends we all can recall and the rest I say thank you lads, and God Bless You The Beatles will be forever Loved
To insist that it is a “John song” or “Paul wrote it” is to ignore the creative process. John. Paul and George Martin pushed each other to create. George Harrison chimed in routinely, coming up with better guitar licks than originally composed and Ringo added just the right touch with his drum kit. All four Beatles and the production team pushed themselves to make the music.
I worked for over 30 years in the field of television production and post-production. Producers I worked with pushed and inspired me to do my best and I pushed producers regularly to outdo their previous efforts. Additionally, the Beatles did not make music in a vacuum, and this video touches on this fact, as a random question from a reporter caused John to challenge himself to write a song based on his own experiences and introspection. Additionally, there were other musicians that the Beatles knew or read about that were doing new things and the Beatles’ music shows these influences as well.
In the midst of any creative process, there is origination and execution. The Beatles fired a drummer who had issues with execution and hired Ringo. Their breakup was an issue of their need to originate more, knowing that there was a vast talent pool that they could, then, draw on for execution.
I would state with certainty that Ringo Starr, the Beatle credited for no original composition, was a master of execution. When they went into the studio to record, they started out at the demo state, where Ringo would listen and start to complement what he heard on drums. As the tune came together, he would play all day and into the wee hours of the morning to get the song done and recorded. He worked as hard as anyone. Lose Ringo Starr and you completely lose the music. Lose George Harrison and, likewise, you lose the music. Writing credits were Lennon and McCartney mostly, as they were most involved in that process of origination. But I’m certain neither John or Paul told Ringo what to play.
The credit on “In My Life” is Lennon and McCartney. That is a true statement.
Thank you Mark Hollis for your perspective from working in the entertainment industry. I enjoyed the process of originating versus execution life lesson. I understand perfectly because I have worked 30 years as part of a health team. Team usually is what gets the end result but rarely the praise...Doctors, Running backs,Quarterbacks, Presidents and Pitchers in Baseball are the heroes but could never have done anything without the team. I like how you pointed out George and Ringo being executors of the musical end result and there is also George Martin and who plays the harpischord?? I think a lot of us don't put a lot of thought into the process involved. It's easy to just recognize the names who wrote the song and not really give credit where credit is due. So I think this has to be a Beatles song especially that it makes sense that both John and Paul may not agree on exactly who wrote what part, they definently both say they both worked on it. I thank you for opening my eyes to the process. I should have remembered that there is a story behind every song.
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It’s a beautiful Beatles song. It’s very
John. I do feel it!
In My Life is probably my favorite Beatles song
so?
@@AnthropoidOne Just enjoy it!
Best lyrics to any song ever written in my opinion.
Good way to start off my morning! I was literally in the process of adding Beatles songs to my car playlist, good video :D
Please tell me "Long, Long, Long" is gonna be on there, that is the perfect song to drive home to after a long day of work.
I grew up with "The Beatles" as I was 15 when they released "Love Me Do" and I followed them thereafter getting all their albums. I saw them when I was 16 and got 4 tickets for which I only paid £3 or about $4. In my opinion this song is mainly John's, he always contributed the deeper more thoughtful lyrics. He was a bit heavy and caustic and Paul was lighter and more cheerful. The combination of the two made them the perfect songwriters of their generation. Their songs made stars out of nobodies.
Great video, my friend. In My Life has always been my favourite Beatles track by far. The melody, the words, chord structure and amazing ‘harpsichord’ solo makes it a real signature song. The drums are kind of the same as on All I’ve Got to Do, I always thought that was funny.
From what I read, The Beatles had a deal. The writer of the song would sing lead. John sings lead here. So I think it is John's song.
Ikr
Definitely mostly John's song, but I think Macca helped with the melody quite a bit. And your point isnt always true, for example, Eight Days A Week is mostly a Paul song, yet John sings it, and Every Little Thing is mostly Paul and Lennon sings that one as well. Day Tripper is mostly Lennon, yet Paul sings the lead there. So while generally true, there remain exceptions.
@@tysonjorstad John and Paul both sing Eight Days A Week. Listen closely.
@@MarkMikelVideos Paul sings a harmony, John sings lead
@@tysonjorstad it sounds like a double tracked John singing lead, however it's both John and Paul singing lead together. Paul was great at imitating John.
My memory is that the evolution of this song began as a retrospective on the places and people in Liverpool that the Beatles had encountered in their early lives. It then evolved into this one, a song with an outstanding first verse and a fairly standard second verse, and of course featuring the classical Beatles' harmonies. I also seem to recall someone referring to it as John's first certifiable work of genius. Great and memorable, but largely on the strength of that first verse.
I realize people like to dissect and peruse every nuance of meaning in these songs but the takeaway of this composition is how it resonates with each individual listener. Ringo's oblique drum track, John's bittersweet vocal, Martin's Baroque input all coalesce into a poignant remembrance of things past.
Your last sentence is spot on.
If you see the handwritten original lyrics to the song before Paul even saw it, you can see the only line that hasn't been crossed out, apart from the three verses, is "all these places..", which is the first line of the bridge which he credits Paul with melodically. I think he knew pretty much where it was going and figured he'd work the rest out with Paul.
"You Never Give Me Your Money"
Please, it's my favourite song
Sooooooooooooooooo underrated. What a beautiful song.
Mr. Kite, A Day in the Life, and now this song? Wow, next time we'll hear Paul saying he can recollect writing Imagine on a napkin and slipping it on John's pocket because he thought it'd be funny.
lol
They never disagreed on how A day in the life was written. See John's interviews, he says it's his song with Paul's part in the middle and the little lick was Paul's as well as the idea for the orchestration.
A Day in the life was co-written and the orchestration was Paul's idea
@@herculepoirot6632 Yeah but it starts from a Lennon idea. So in my view it's a Lennon song.
No but John did credit Yoko for the original idea for Imagine. lol
I could describe this song as a John's story told by Paul's words with strong John's spirit, and it's delivered thru Paul's melody with strong impression of a John's song.
idk if this makes sense
Nonetheless it's John's true-to-self lyrics and Paul's melodic genius that made this phenomenal song so rewarding and it's my eternal fav of the Beatles
Well I've never been into the whole John vs Paul thing. I love them both (And I don't want to forget to mention how awesome George Harrison was as a song writer.), and whenever I hear one and think, "Yeah, I like him best." I'll hear something from the other and go, "but wait a moment". lol
That being said, I'm giving this one to John. Only because Martin says it was a John song and doesn't mention Macca at all. When two geniuses disagree, best to listen to a third, unbiased genius to settle the matter.
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YES! My favourite song of all time!
Same :")
Yes!!! I’ve been wait for this one!
24-yr old fan here and I believe this is John's 😍
jazel estolas You’ve been a fan for 24 years or you’re 24 years old
I agree.
It’s got the tell tale Lennon melismas, lots of Lennonesque pentatonic phrasing. The first melodic figure could be McCartney’s. I do think Paul has penchant for over claiming authorship especially after John’s death which is really sad as he has so much to be proud of.
No he doesn't. This is the only song that Paul disagrees with Lennon about.
@@ewest14 he claims to have written/contributed lots of things - the intro to If I Fell for example, even though we have a solo Lennon ‘63 demo of the song with a different ending. He may have done and written a lot of things. No one talks about Lennon writing harmonic and melodic content to Yellow Submarine’s verses. The thing is Lennon is not around to respond and memories fade as well. I’m a big McCartney fan but when Lennon got killed it made him a martyr and that eclipsed McCartney and his contribution which led to many years from now and some overreaching. McCartney is totally amazing
@@dogmatronic Try thinking about this a different way. Lennon got all of his side of the story out from 70-80. Paul never felt the need to do it until after John died and Phillip Norman released his Shout with a false history of the band. That along with Lennon's interviews with Jann Wenner, which were heavily biased and provided false information to fans. For example John says he wrote 80% of Eleanor Rigby, which was proven to be untrue because even John's best friend said that John contributed basically nothing. John's own best friend backed Paul's story of John only helping with half a line. Paul knew that he had to set the record straight, even though he knew that it would look like him trying to revise history. So in reality, it's Paul fixing an already revisionist history.
2 Points ...1 The major shift in John’s writing is at this time and with this song but this is also the exact time they discovered pot and Dylan and John also said that pot gave him the window to no longer need to separate his song writing from his book writing - now he knew how to write personal songs ... 2. They couldn’t say it was just another Lennon & Mccartney song bcs later they were both asked specifically about who contributed what to each song - people wanted to know there recollections of this - John gave an interview to (Playboy Mag ithink) in 1980 was asked to recall every single song and how they came about -Paul later did a smaller/similar analysis in his memoir Many Years From Now - so I think thats why - thanks for the video - keep it up!!
Lennon’s lyric sheet is in the Smithsonian. All his songs were introverted McCartney’s extroverted. This is 100% Lennon ...
John's lyric without a doubt. But maybe Paul's music more than John's ?
It’s a without a doubt a John song. I believe what happened was it was John’s idea, then Paul came along and took out lyrics and maybe added a couple of his own. George Harrison probably helped with the guitar riff (similar to how he came up with the riff in And I Love Her) but it also could have been Paul. Then you add the beautiful piano solo by George Martin and Ringos simple but perfect beat. So, maybe it wasn’t a John song...it was a Beatles song lol
Its completely John's song...like John's "This Boy" , "If i Fell", "Yes It Is" or "Dear Prudence", "Julia" - John said: "He could write ballads too"
It is a Beatles track. That's all I know.
I heard that George Martin recorded the piano part.
This is the most important Beatles song to me, it makes me cry every time I hear it, than k you for this video
By far my favorite "John" song...pretty sure I hear Paul in there because...there's a melody.
John Lennon stated in the Playboy interview just months before his death ,September. 1980 quote ...”now in my life Paul wrote the middle-eight melody. The whole lyrics were already written before Paul even heard it . In “ In my life” his contribution melodically was the harmony and the middle eight itself.
In My Life is ALL John and that’s what he has said. It’s my favorite Beatles song. Michelle is all Paul. two of their greatest songs.
So John wrote Penny Lane before Paul even thought of writing it.
Haha. I often try to do what many comments here have attempted. To choose the signature or best songs of this Beatle or that Beatle, or the Beatles generally. But it is pretty much impossible. I once had some time on my hands and tried to list the top 10 essential Beatles songs. I couldn’t do it, so I expanded the list to 20. I still couldn’t do it, so I went to 30! And at 30, I still felt guilty about so many songs that I had left out. A fun exercise, this, but in the end, impossible!!!
How the Beatles Made "I'll be back" . I'm more into John than beetles and I really wish to see more of *his songs. Btw you're great man
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Love that song
I chose to walk up the aisle at my one and only son's wedding to "In My Life," played on a harp. I'd wondered if I would cry during the wedding...well, at the first NOTES, I started, and sort of cried through the whole ceremony! In my speech, I quoted Lennon's thoughts on love. God, I love John and Paul, still today.
In my life it's a song written by John, but that doesn't mean that Paul couldn't give him any important advice. The extraordinary thing about the songs by Lennon - McCartney is that even if Paul wrote a song himself, he asked John for advice and so did John with Paul. If the advice was followed, even if it concerned only 1% of the song, it often gave her something more, making it an absolute masterpiece.
When you played the alternate lyrics, I discovered the power of this song. In the alternate lyrics, Lennon is *_very specific,_* naming places that mattered to him. This would have made the song important to him, but no one else. Compare this to the final lyrics, which are *_more general, and more about universal feelings._* This allows the listener to insert *_their own_* people, places, relationships, and experiences. In that regard, it transformed into a thing wherein everyone can find value.
That's why it was what we chose for my mother's funeral
Beautiful analysis of a beautiful song. I completely agree with you.
a how the beatles made for "here, there and everywhere" would be great
We played this song for the recessional at my wedding. My first thought was to play a string quartet version similar to something I'd heard on UA-cam, but when I couldn't one similar available anywhere to purchase that would let me listen to a sample first (to make sure it was what I wanted!), I decided screw it, we will play the original, and we did! It was beautiful!
Overtime someone says it’s a “John song”, John get his wings
This song came out on their LP Rubber Soul. Although this album has outright songs by individual songwriters Lennon, McCartney & Harrison, John & Paul were still collaborating, sitting down with guitars, eyeball to eyeball for some of the songs: "Drive My Car" & "The Word" are two. I think Paul's recollection is correct. John was struggling with the words & then changed them after he & Paul had a guitar session together as they used to do when they were touring, writing together in hotel rooms or on the tour bus, guitar to guitar. So it is entirely feasible that Paul contributed more to the guitar changes/melody than Lennon did, while the song used Lennon's words entirely.
And it should be noted that their collaborations extended into the "Sgt Pepper" album on songs like "With A Little Help From My Friends," "It's Getting Better" & "A Day In The Life," although the latter was more of a hybrid of putting two different songs together - - still, they seem to be working very closely together on this as well when one takes into account that they 'together' decided to put in the 'drug reference' of "turn you on."
Paul is more than likely goofing on us. This is John's song and John decalared this early on. John used to give many interviews and mix nonsense in with truth about song writing...example he said he wrote 50 per cent of Elenor Rigby which he did not........no doubt he did this to blurr the line for Beatle' s fans to keep them guessing who did what and not to deduce that one person was the beatles.............because the beatles were truly a dynamic group....After John dyed Paul was the only one to keep some of mystery alive. John said early on this was his song, maybe a little help from Paul......it does not sound like Paul' s style.
In my life was the very first song I knew when I was starting to learn how to sing when I was around 4 or 5 years old listening on a Parlopone 45rpm record playing it over and over again and the other side was Run for your Life.
The song is a good song to fit any person. Anyone can relate to this. It is suitably vague and easily sung. Easy to remember, too.
Every time I see a video where someone comments on a Beatles song, there's always a comment about "well this led to their breakup."
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Paul has said himself that in a year's time, the Beatles' style evolved quickly, the style changed rapidly. They were just creating and making songs. *Rubber Soul* was one of those big evolutions of music. That and *Revolver* were great experimental and growing performances.
Remember the Beatles never had a dry studio session, and Paul said they wrote more songs than got on the records. The ones that got on the records were the ones they could remember.
It seems to me a good test of a song's staying power if you can remember it. They didn't write the music, only played it.
*In My Life* was a Beatles song, even if you can distinguish who did what. It's no different than being able to parse out who sang what notes in the harmonies of, say, *Nowhere Man*
You did listen to *Peter and the Wolf* and *Young People's Guide to the Orchestra* when you were young, didn't you?
''And these memories lose their meaning, when I think of love of something knew''
Maybe John's most beautiful lyric.
Paul hardly needs to claim any extra credit if he knows he didn't completely write the music. His place in history was secured over 50 years ago.
Paul saying that we should not take his memory here categorically is very revealing. Paul is being really honest, in my opinion, and his unsureness about the whole episode is refreshing.
I tend to go with how Paul remembers it. The music is Paulist and the words Lennonist.
it's 100% a John song in my opinion, and it's unfortunate that Paul takes so much credit for things after John's passing when John can't refute any of Paul's claims.
Paul made his claims in the 70s before John died.
I hear very little of Paul in this song. He may have helped a bit, but for me, "In My Life" is very similar structurally to John's song "Girl" and is pure John with a little help from his friend Paul.
I played this song at my dad's funeral...there wasn't a dry eye in the house.. awesome song
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I want In My Life and Time to Say Goodbye played at my funeral.
“In my life” is simply a song where the two just understood the meaning but both just didn’t wanted to destroy each other’s filings.
*feelings?
It is beautiful. Too beautiful. It makes me so sad.
Paul's sheep dog "Martha" once claimed that SHE wrote the melody and chords AND title for the song. The song is about a sheep dogs life ;)
One of the most underrated songs from them.
I’m so mad that this video is over 😂 I’m loving the new videos
Thank you
I did agree about the notion of not writing it together. The bit about go have some tea still falls within the milieu of their deliberate Weybridge songwriting meetings. As Paul's anecdote suggests that doesn't mean they had to head to head the whole time. I seem to recall that Here, There and Everywhere came about in a moment at Weybridge too when John was distracted with something else or perhaps while Paul was waiting for Cynthia to rouse John from his bed.
I've sat down and analyzed the melodies that John wrote versus Paul. In short, the melody of 'In My Life' does a lot of vocal modulation that almost never appears in Paul's songs. But, there are note intervals that almost never appears in John's work. While I firmly believe that the lyrics are definitely John, the melodic was co-written as it progressed. We've be very fortunate to see and hear many of their sessions like a fly on the wall. They chipped into each other's work. They were still a friendly working environment at the time so it seems very likely it evolved. (There were a lot of drugs then, too (wink))
It is what it is. Thinking about the "why" when that cannot be ascertained is a waste.
Paul's memory of such things as who wrote what is not nearly as precise as John's was. He often blusters, blunders or creates a myth that he then believes. This is clearly a John chord progression, which doesn't seem to be in dispute. The melody is almost certainly John's as it starts with one of John's signature moves: the first note on the first downbeat is a 9. He did this a lot and it's really, really tricky to do but John did it quite a bit. On the other hand, Paul writing the melody to what John calls the middle 8 is actually Paul writing the melody to the chorus. That melody really does sound like Paul. The verses though, not so much.
Great, great song. Always surprises me that a young man or young men wrote it.