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"Think for Yourself" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, and, together with "If I Needed Someone", marked the start of his emergence as a songwriter beside John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The song's lyrics advocate independent thinking ...
Harrison likened "If I Needed Someone" to "a million other songs" that are based on a guitarist's finger movements around the D major chord. [22] [nb 3] The song is founded on a riff played on a Rickenbacker 360/12, [24] [25] which was the twelve-string electric guitar that McGuinn had adopted as the Byrds' signature instrument after seeing Harrison playing one in A Hard Day's Night.
Decker likens the lyrics to a less philosophical version of "Think for Yourself" in which "the narrator has grown, yet the woman has failed to keep up." [ 168 ] The composition contrasts acoustic-based verses with harsher, R&B-style instrumental sections, [ 169 ] suggesting a combination of the folk rock and soul styles. [ 147 ]
Harrison’s inauspicious debut as a songwriter, ... Even “Think for Yourself,” which displayed Harrison’s increasingly sophisticated lyrical outlook, gets an irrepressible charge from ...
[45] [46] [47] The song marked the first example of a rock band playing a sitar [48] or any Indian instrument on one of their recordings. [49] It was also issued on a single with "Nowhere Man" in Australia and was a number 1 hit there in May 1966. [50] [51] The two songs were listed together, as a double A-side, during the single's two weeks at ...
Kelsea Ballerini and boyfriend Chase Stokes are getting serious.. On her new song “Baggage,” the country star, 31, teases a new relationship milestone. “Boy, I know the weight and gravity ...
The lead now describes this feature as "atypical" but I think the previous wording – "a departure from convention" – is more accurate. The claim's supported in the main text by the statement that there was no precedence before "Think for Yourself" for having a standard bass part and a fuzz bass part on the one song.
Nashville Songwriters Association International Executive Director Bart Herbison sat down with songwriter (and now book author) Gary Burr to talk about his 1994 Patty Loveless hit "I Try to Think ...