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Lennon's mother, Julia, taught her son to play the banjo, showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars in a similar way to the banjo, and taught them simple chords and songs. Lennon founded a skiffle group with his close friend Pete Shotton and after a week of gaining new members, they named themselves The Quarrymen. [ 3 ]
"It Won't Be Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released as the opening track on their second UK album With the Beatles (1963), and was the first original song recorded for it. [1] Although credited to Lennon–McCartney , it was primarily a composition by John Lennon , with Paul McCartney assisting with the lyrics and ...
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]
[2] [5] [nb 2] In The Beatles Anthology, McCartney describes it as, "a self-penned little song very influenced by Elvis [Presley]." [7] In an interview with Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, McCartney goes further and explains that the song is very similar to a specific Elvis song, though he avoids mentioning which particular one. [8]
"Chains" is a rhythm and blues song written by husband-and-wife songwriting team Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It was a hit for the American girl group the Cookies in 1962 and for the English rock band the Beatles, who recorded the song for their debut album in 1963.
"Any Time at All" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, it was mainly composed by John Lennon, with an instrumental middle eight by Paul McCartney. [2] It first appeared on the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night album.
The frequent use of added sixth chords in the song accentuate its dreamlike feel. [7] The song also has an example of major 9th harmony in the Cmaj 9 chord on "Here comes the Sun King"; here, above the tonic C major triad, both B (seventh) and D (ninth) combine in the vocals "to form a suitably lush fanfare for the monarch himself." [8]
"Long, Long, Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the group's lead guitarist, while he and his bandmates were attending Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India, in early 1968.