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The company released a soundtrack album on 26 June 1964 with eight Beatles songs and four instrumentals. "I Should Have Known Better" was performed in the film, and it appears on the soundtrack . Capitol Records released Something New a month later with songs from the UK version of A Hard Day's Night that were not used in the film.
"She Said She Said" is in the key of B ♭ Mixolydian, based on three chords: B ♭ (I), A ♭ (♭ VII), and E ♭ (IV). [37] The key centre shifts to E ♭ major during the bridge sections by means of an F minor (v) chord, a pivot chord that the Beatles had used to modulate to the subdominant before on "From Me to You" and "I Want to Hold ...
The song has been said to be musically reminiscent of the Beatles' hit single "Penny Lane". [4] It moves forward by way of regular chords, produced by Lennon and George Harrison's electric guitar. George Martin plays Pianet and piano, on the latter bypassing the keyboard and directly striking the strings. [5]
Influenced somewhat by the Shirelles, [3] "When I Get Home" is essentially a rock and roll number, but with unusual chord progressions. Lennon liked this particular ploy, and used it on many of his songs at the time. Typical also of this period of the Beatles is the vocal leap into falsetto.
"Norwegian Wood" was not the first Western pop song in which an Indian influence was evident: the raga-like drone was found in the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride", [20] [21] as well as in the Kinks' song "See My Friends". [22] [23] The Yardbirds also created a similar sound with a distorted electric guitar on "Heart Full of Soul".
[33] [nb 4] Harrison's adoption of the pedal typified his search for new sounds for the Beatles, and for colouring that was empathetic with the group's material. [35] [36] He played the part on his Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar [37] and soon used the effect again on "Yes It Is", a similarly emotive Lennon composition. [38]
Lennon wrote "How Do You Sleep?" in the aftermath of Paul McCartney's successful lawsuit in the London High Court to dissolve the Beatles as a legal partnership. [1] This ruling was caused by the publication of Lennon's remarks about the Beatles in a December 1970 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, and McCartney and his wife taking full-page advertisements in the music press, in which, as ...
A simple twelve-bar blues number extended into fourteen-bars, [10] the song uses only the chords I, IV and V. [9] One of the few Beatles songs to feature a simple verse form, [11] musicologist Alan W. Pollack suggests that, in the context of the Beatles' 1965 compositions, its simple format is stylistically regressive. [9]