Tag: beatles for sale
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101: Baby’s In Black
Baby’s In Black is an Lennon-McCartney collaboration from the Beatles For Sale album. Although few would claim it’s their greatest song, it does demonstrate an increasing self-confidence and ambition in their writing and perhaps unconsciously exposes something about their connection. Lyrically, Baby’s In Black (what a cool title) deals with someone else’s grief (she dresses…
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103: I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party is a track from Beatles For Sale, written by John Lennon. According to Paul McCartney (in Barry Miles’ 1998 authorised biography, Many Years From Now) it was written with Ringo in mind, but I can’t help thinking this is a mix-up; it really doesn’t sound like one that…
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117: I’m A Loser
I’m A Loser is a track from Beatles For Sale, written mainly by John Lennon, and one of his first introspective songs. According to several internet sources including the Beatles Bible and Beatles Music History, Lennon attributed this new direction to a meeting with journalist Kenneth Allsop who had interviewed him in connection with Lennon’s…
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121: Mr. Moonlight
Mr Moonlight is a cover of a song, originally recorded by Dr Feelgood and the Interns, that appears on the Beatles For Sale album. Looking back at the underlying ratings that support its ranking on this blog, I see that I rated it highly for performance, and a good proportion of that score is due…
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131: Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (I’ll call it Kansas City) is a cover version from the Beatles For Sale album. It had been a staple of the Beatles’ Cavern Club setlists. The Kansas City part of the song is a very early rock’n’roll song written by Leiber and Stoller (both then just 19 years old) in 1952, but…
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133: Every Little Thing
Every Little Thing is a track from the Beatles For Sale album, written mainly by Paul McCartney but, unusually, with a prominent lead vocal by John Lennon. Beatles For Sale is one of the albums that I did not have access to growing up, and when I did get to hear it, it was not…
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142: I’ll Follow The Sun
You learn something everyday, and I confess that until today, when I sat down to research this entry, I did not know that I’ll Follow The Sun, was one of the earliest McCartney wrote, going back to 1959 when he was aged about 16. As the Beatles Bible article says, the Beatles made a home…
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152: Eight Days A Week
Eight Days A Week was a track on the Beatles For Sale album written as a collaboration between McCartney and Lennon. In the US and some other territories it was released as a single, and it made #1 in the US Billboard Hot 100. Eight Days A Week is an example of a song that…
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155: No Reply
No Reply was written mainly by John Lennon and appears on the Beatles For Sale album. For some reason this song really sticks in my memory, and I think it must have been one I listened to a lot in my early days as a Beatles fan. Teenage Memories I’d heard the Beatles quite a…
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181: Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
I have a soft spot for this Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby. I love the cheeky, light-heartedly bragging tone. Seems like a great fit for George’s witty, ironic and sort-of-but-not-quite humble personality. It wouldn’t work at all for Paul McCartney, right? I also think it has a really nice authentic rock’n’roll sound and a…
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184: What You’re Doing
Having read the Beatles Bible page (I also have the Many Years Ago book), I agree with Paul McCartney’s own assessment of the song: “You sometimes start a song and hope the best bit will arrive by the time you get to the chorus… but sometimes that’s all you get, and I suspect this was…
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207: Honey Don’t
This is another Ringo track, and a cover of a Carl Perkins song from (IMO) the Beatles’ weakest pop era album Beatles For Sale.“Weak” being very much a relative term for Beatles albums – they’d have knocked most other artists into a cocked hat, of course. Ringo was a fan of country music, so Honey…