‘If I Needed Someone’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ are also good examples of this stylistic change for the band. While some have pointed towards the band’s inclusion of Indian culture as the source of inspiration for the one-chord melodies, many have equally pointed to their newfound love of marijuana. It was an idea they tried to enact on a lot of their output around this time. I had no music, but it’s just a little bluesy song, not a lot of melody.”Īs well as using a new subject matter, and also trying to change up their lyrical structure by changing the lyrics into something a little more conceptual, Lennon and McCartney were keen to keep their melody backed by a single chord: “John and I would like to do songs with just one note like ‘Long Tall Sally.’ We got near it in ‘The Word.'” While the song does remain on G for most of the run time, it does deviate for a few moments as it pauses on C, Macca and Lennon, just falling short on this one.
John and I sat down and finished it all up, but it was tilted towards me, the original idea was mine. “And John, as I recall, just sat there and said, ‘Oh, that’s it,’ ‘Uhuh,’ ‘Yeah.’ I remember him, his amused smile, saying, ‘Yes, that’s it, that’ll do.’ Quite a nice moment: ‘Hmm, I’ve done right! I’ve done well!’ And then we went upstairs and put the melody to it. He added: “I arrived at Weybridge and told John I had this idea of trying to write off to a publishers to become a paperback writer, and I said, ‘I think it should be written like a letter.’ I took a bit of paper out and I said it should be something like ‘Dear Sir or Madam, as the case may be…’ and I proceeded to write it just like a letter in front of him, occasionally rhyming it.”ĭuring the same conversation with Barry Miles for Many Years from Now, Macca also shared that despite their struggles he and Lennon shared a genuine warmth.
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