It's only love

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It's only love
The Beatles
publication 0August 6, 1965 ( UK ),
August 12, 1965 ( D )
length 1 min 55 s
Genre (s) ballad
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Producer (s) George Martin
Label Hörzu (D),
Parlophone (UK)
album Help!

It's Only Love ( English , "It's Only Love") is a song by British band The Beatles in 1965, which on the album Help! appeared.

background

“The working title of the song was That's A Nice Hat , and that says a lot about how serious the author was about the piece.” “In this case, maybe the song's shortcomings were on the enormous pressure to produce more songs for the soundtrack album [...] "" It's Only Love is one of the last lyrics that John wrote without any real inspiration. "

composition

John Lennon : “ It's Only Love is mine. I always thought the song was pretty bad. The text is extremely bad. I've always hated the song. "" It was John's original idea and Paul helped him finish it. Paul rates him sixty-forty for John. It was a real filler. [...] Paul: 'Sometimes we didn't argue when the lyrics of one of those filler songs like It's Only Love were pretty flat. If a text was really bad, we edited it [...] '. "

The in 4 / 4 - stroke wrote song is in C major company and has a length of 1:55 minutes. The tempo is given as moderato , the genre of the song is a ballad .

text

“The text tells how his girlfriend sweetens his night and that he has butterflies in his stomach. [...] It was one of the few Beatles songs that John really hated. […] He condemned all the songs that John would rather not have written because of their lyrics and not because of the melodies, because he was of the opinion that he had created platitudes instead of real feelings [like that!]. "" You can hear, by the way, how he enjoys himself at the word 'bright', which he pronounces with a strong rolling R. "" When singing the last 'bright', you can hear him putting on a silly Scottish accent for the r, as if to let us know he realized it was a bit of a dud. " ("While singing the last 'bright' you can hear him put a goofy Scottish accent on the r, as if to let us know he realized it was a little dud.")

occupation

Cast list:

admission

The recording was made on Tuesday, June 15, 1965 in Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios . There were only six takes in total . George Martin was the producer and Norman Smith was the sound engineer .

publication

In Germany the LP Help! published on August 12, 1965 ( Hörzu SHZE 162), in Great Britain on August 6, 1965 ( Parlophone PMC 1255 [mono], PCS 3071 [stereo]). The title also appeared in the UK on EP Yesterday (Parlophone GEP 8948) on March 4, 1966. On March 18, 1996, takes 3 and 2 of the title appeared on Anthology 2 . The sheet music for the song was published by the London music publisher Northern Songs from 1965 onwards .

Reviews

"[...] a nice little stopgap [...] the text is the hollowest thing Lennon has ever done."

- Ian McDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon 

"Another simple, but masterful number [...]"

"Another simple but masterful number [...]"

- Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual 

Cover versions

George Martin and his orchestra published an instrumental version of the piece in 1965 under the title That's A Nice Hat . Bryan Ferry released his version in 1976 .

literature

  • Alan Aldridge (Ed.): The Beatles Songbook 2. The Beatles' colored text book. Volume 2 . German by Lutz-W. Wolff. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01746-5 .
  • Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always . Something, Rostock 2007, ISBN 978-3-936300-44-4 .
  • Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962-1970 . Pierian Press, Ann Arbor 1980, ISBN 0-87650-104-8 .
  • Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics. The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-316-24716-0 .
  • Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4 .
  • Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores . Hal Leonard, Milwaukee 1993, ISBN 0-7935-1832-6 .
  • Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3881-8 .
  • Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 2. Help! through revolver (1965-1966) . Gearfab Books, Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-1983704550 .
  • Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. Hamlyn, London 1988, ISBN 0-600-55798-7 .
  • Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1426-7 .
  • Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide. An Anthology of Original LP Releases in more than 40 Countries 1962–1972 . Print Competence, Mühlenrade 2004, ISBN 3-9809137-1-6 .
  • Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide II. An Anthology of Original Singles and EP Releases in 58 Countries 1961–1973. Print Competence, Mühlenrade 2005, ISBN 3-9809137-2-4 .
  • Barry Miles : Paul McCartney. Many years from now . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60892-8 .
  • NN : The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ. Music Sales, London, undated
  • John Pring, Rob Thomas: The Beatles Story. Band history | Albums | Backgrounds . Knesebeck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95728-176-0 .
  • David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview . Hannibal, Höfen 2002, ISBN 3-85445-202-0 .
  • Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road . A History of The Beatles on Record. 2nd Edition. Virgin, London 1983, ISBN 0-907080-96-0 .
  • Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song . Heel, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-500-X .
  • Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Digital printing service, Halle (Saale) 2002.
  • Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?) . Modern Music Cologne, Cologne 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The Song Lexicon, p. 174
  2. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song, p. 82
  3. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs, p. 242
  4. ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview, p. 184
  5. ↑ Barry Miles: Paul McCartney. Many years from now , pp. 240-241
  6. ↑ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores, pp. 540-543
  7. ↑ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores, pp. 540-543; John Pring, Rob Thomas: The Beatles Story. Band history | Albums | Background, p. 103
  8. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs, p. 242
  9. ^ NN: The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ, p. 129
  10. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song, p. 82
  11. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs , p. 242
  12. ^ Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics. The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs, p. 101
  13. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. Das Song-Lexikon, p. 174. Instruments from: Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 2. Help! through Revolver (1965–1966) , p. 53
  14. ^ Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, p. 60
  15. ^ Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?), P. 66; Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, p. 40; Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always, p. 786
  16. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, p. 62; Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road. A History of The Beatles on Record, p. 32
  17. ↑ Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide II. An Anthology of Original Singles and EP Releases in 58 Countries 1961–1973, p. 57; Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always, p. 102
  18. ↑ Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, p. 116
  19. ↑ p. 174
  20. ↑ p. 53