McCartney Times

Sitting in his luscious country home in the small town of Weybridge on a spring morning in 1965, John Lennon contemplated his quick rise to fame and all the troubles that it had brought upon him, along with his good friend (at the time), Paul McCartney.Having written a basic version of what would later become the hit single ‘Help!’, the two Beatles bandmates attempted to sharpen the edges around Lennon’s original idea, one that was written for a soundtrack to the band’s second feature film of the same name. With its jangly descending guitar riff right at the start, the high-pitched backing melodies of McCartney, and its quick tempo carried by a hard-strummed acoustic and Ringo Starr’s straight-drum beats, instrumentally, this song was as groovy and festive as any of the group’s finest.

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Source: In 1964, an act of “desperation” saw John Lennon write a Beatles anthem. Paul McCartney knew it was a cry for help