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"I'm Looking Through You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. McCartney wrote the song about English actress Jane Asher, his girlfriend for much of the 1960s, [3] and her refusal to give up her stage career and focus on his needs. [4]
"You Won't See Me" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.As with songs such as "We Can Work It Out" and "I'm Looking Through You" from the same period, the lyrics address McCartney's troubled relationship with Jane Asher and her desire to pursue her career as a stage and film actress.
O'Grady similarly highlights the song's folk-styled guitar contribution with underlying hints of bluegrass, comparing it to another of McCartney's 1965 compositions, "I'm Looking Through You". [30] He writes that both songs "[demonstrate] a split personality" through joining pop-rock with either folk or country-western. [31]
Harrison likened "If I Needed Someone" to "a million other songs" that are based on a guitarist's finger movements around the D major chord. [22] [nb 3] The song is founded on a riff played on a Rickenbacker 360/12, [24] [25] which was the twelve-string electric guitar that McGuinn had adopted as the Byrds' signature instrument after seeing Harrison playing one in A Hard Day's Night.
"Think for Yourself" has a 4/4 time signature and is set to a moderate rock beat. [21] After a two-bar introduction, the structure comprises three combinations of verse and chorus, with the final chorus being repeated in full, followed by what musicologist Alan Pollack terms a "petit-reprise of the last phrase" to close the song. [22]
I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledygook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that. [ 7 ] "Glass Onion" was a name suggested by Lennon for the Iveys, a group who signed to Apple Records in 1968 and later became Badfinger .
John Lennon had felt during his youth that "love had been the answer", and had written "The Word" as his "first expression" of the concept. He had felt that love was an "underlying theme of the universe", and that love was fundamental in many things, which had inspired the lyric "In the good and bad books that I have read". [3]
It says in the article that Ringo played quick two-note vamps on the organ in this song, just like he played only three chords on the piano in Don't Pass Me By. "I'm Looking Through You" and "Don't Pass Me By" are the only songs (to my knowledge) where Ringo played any keyboard parts.--Kevjgav 07:54, 1 September 2015 (UTC)