Beatlemania “ended” when they decided to stop touring, period. Beatlemania was not a song writing genre, but something the press made up to describe fan reaction. The hallmark of Lennon-McCartney songwriting was they insisted on writing something new and different from any previous song, exploring new musical territory. 1) The idea that the Beatles wrote “Beatlemania” songs until a certain point and then suddenly changed it with Rubber Soul/Revolver is nonsense. Neither of you guys seems to know what you are talking about. Then I started being me about the songs, not writing them objectively, but subjectively. I’d have a separate songwriting John Lennon who wrote songs for the sort of meat market, and I didn’t consider them – the lyrics or anything – to have any depth at all. But to express myself I would write Spaniard In The Works or In His Own Write, the personal stories which were expressive of my personal emotions. I was already a stylized songwriter on the first album. ![]() I think it was Dylan helped me realise that – not by any discussion or anything but just by hearing his work – I had a sort of professional songwriter’s attitude to writing pop songs he would turn out a certain style of song for a single and we would do a certain style of thing for this and the other thing. I would try to express what I felt about myself which I’d done in me books. I started thinking about my own emotions – I don’t know when exactly it started, like ‘I’m A Loser’ or ‘Hide Your Love Away’ or those kind of things – instead of projecting myself into a situation. The period would be for songwriting and so every day I would attempt to write a song, and it’s one of those that you sort of sing a bit sadly to yourself, ‘Here I stand, head in hand…’ I was in Kenwood and I would just be songwriting. Lennon’s writing for the Help! LP continued the inward reflection first explored on Beatles For Sale, with the title track speaking of his insecurity during the peak of The Beatles’ fame. ![]() This was used for around three weeks in March and April 1965, and Capitol Records even announced that it would be the title of their first US single of the year.Įventually the title Help! was settled on and, as for A Hard Day’s Night previously, John Lennon rose to the challenge of composing the theme song. The film had an early working title of Beatles II, until Eight Arms To Hold You was suggested. It contained 14 songs: 10 by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, two more by George Harrison, and a further two cover versions. ![]() The Beatles’ fifth official UK album release, Help! was the soundtrack to the group’s second feature film. ‘Help!’ ‘The Night Before’ ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’ ‘I Need You’ ‘Another Girl’ ‘You’re Going To Lose That Girl’ ‘Ticket To Ride’ ‘Act Naturally’ ‘It’s Only Love’ ‘You Like Me Too Much’ ‘Tell Me What You See’ ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’ ‘Yesterday’ ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’
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