i guess i have a beatles blog now

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John wrote this song in 1964, when he was married with Cynthia. He sings that he’s in love, but this time it’s different, he has never been so in love before, he sings to:

‘please, if I love you, don’t run and hide’.

Why should Cynthia hide and run away? they were married.

Then he sings that she will cry when she’ll realize they’re two

‘So I hope you see that IWould love to love youAnd that she will cryWhen she learns we are two’

In the studio, John and Paul asked to share one microphone to sing this song.

In 1980 he said that it was his first love song, and it wasn’t written for Cynthia.

Then later admitted that he used to change the pronouns in ‘she’ in his songs.

“John’s “If I Fell” was a songwriting breakthrough for him: his first forthright expression of the soft core of emotional vulnerability that he otherwise sought to mask with bravado, insouciance and wit…From the moment Paul’s voice joins John’s on the stately, rising melody, the whole tenor of the track changes. Their two parts do not move in simple, parallel motion (like a couple holding hands); instead their voices perform an intricate courtship dance, ranging from a sixth to a third apart, alternately closing and widening the distance between them. “If I Fell” is a love song that seeks to move beyond the shaky ground of infactuation - beyond the very idea of falling (like the chords in the introdution) in love. By the last verse, the music sounds like a hymn, the singing an exchange of vow". - Jonathan Gould, Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America, 2008.

While filming A Hard day’s night, John did this while singing this song:

STERN: Do you think because of you- I mean, again, I think having that musical relationship with you saved his life because when you have no father, a mother who didn’t really spend time with you… tremendous tragedy, you know. You don’t know where your life could end up. You could end up a criminal For God’s sake, but that musical thing, saved him. And you’re right, Help was probably just really a cry for help. You know, I think that’s one of the things that- again, maybe I’m playing psychologist, but I think that’s one of the things that broke up the Beatles. When John looked at you, you were one of the few people who knew who the real John Lennon was- not the Beatle, not the famous guy. And sometimes when you become famous, you don’t want any of those people from the past who saw the horror of it all. You were the one person really who he should have turned to (I think) because you knew the real him and loved him back before all the fame. But I don’t think he could handle the mirror that you represented to him.

“I was inspired to create ‘Fashions for Men’ [because I was] amazed at how my man was looking so great. I felt it was a pity if we could not make clothes emphasizing his very sexy bod. So, I made this whole series with love for his hot bod and gave it to him as a wedding present. You can imagine how he went wild and fell in love with me even more.”

john lennon:

what yoko ono sees: