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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]
An instrumental version of "This Boy", orchestrated by George Martin, is used as the incidental music during Ringo Starr's towpath scene in the film A Hard Day's Night. The piece, under the title, "Ringo's Theme (This Boy)", was released as a single—but failed to chart in the UK—on 7 August 1964 with "And I Love Her" on the B-Side, [ 11 ...
The verse-chorus also employs what Pedler terms a "delaying tactic" in alternating between vi and iii chords (over the lines "Please come on back to me / I'm lonely as can be") before again returning to A. [25] The lyrics serve as a rare example of Harrison embracing the standard boy–girl themes of love songs. [22]
The song was included on Beatles VI in the U.S. (using the "duophonic" stereo remix from the original mono track, with additional echo and reverb added), and on compilation albums, including Love Songs, the British version of the Rarities album; Only the Beatles, an unauthorised British promotional cassette for Heineken Beer in 1986 (on which ...
The earliest known taping of the song [1] is the Beatles performing a version in January 1969 during their Get Back sessions. [15] [16] [nb 1] John Lennon is on lead vocal while McCartney supplies a repeated sustained upper descant. [1] McCartney recorded another early version on a crude home tape in the mid-1970s.
[17] Author Ian MacDonald praised "Don't Let Me Down" and declared that "this track vies with 'Come Together' for consideration as the best of Lennon's late-style Beatles records". [18] "Don't Let Me Down" is the most viewed video on the Beatles' YouTube channel, with over 510 million views.
"Girl" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written by John Lennon [3] [4] and credited to Lennon–McCartney. "Girl" was the last complete song recorded for that album. [5] [6] "Girl" is considered to be one of the most melancholic and complex of the Beatles' earlier love songs. [7]
"The Beatles' Movie Medley" is a compilation of snippets from various Beatles songs. The single peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and No. 10 on the British charts in 1982. The songs were chosen from the Beatles' films, A Hard Day's Night , Help! , Magical Mystery Tour , Yellow Submarine and Let It Be .