Run for your life

Run for your life
The Beatles
publication	December 3, 1965
length	2 min 18 s
Genre (s)	Folk rock , rock 'n' roll
Author (s)	Lennon / McCartney
album	Rubber Soul

Run for Your Life ( English Run for your life ) is a song by British band The Beatles , which for the album 1965 Rubber Soul was recorded. The piece was written primarily by John Lennon , although Lennon / McCartney is indicated as the composing team .

background

In an interview with Jann Wenner for the music magazine Rolling Stone in 1970, Lennon admitted that he wrote the first line of the text “I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man” from the song Baby, Let's Play House and then developed the rest around this topic. Baby, Let's Play House , a 1954 composition by blues musician Arthur Gunter, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1955 version of Elvis Presley . He also said that he had never liked the piece, it was just a song that he “just knocked off” (“[…] a song I just knocked off”).

“I used to like specific lines from songs - 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man'– so I wrote it around that.”

"I liked certain lines from songs - 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than with another man' - so I wrote around that."

- John Lennon, interview with Jann Wenner

Lennon's low esteem for the song persisted, and in his last major interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine in December 1980 , he said he had never thought much of the piece, but pointed out that George Harrison always liked it.

John Lennon took up the jealousy theme again in 1971 in the song Jealous Guy for the album Imagine .

admission

Although Run for Your Life closes the album Rubber Soul , it was the first song recorded for it. The recordings took place on October 12, 1965 in London's Abbey Road Studios under the direction of George Martin . Norman Smith acted as the sound engineer . It took the Beatles five takes to complete the backing track . During the recording, John Lennon played western guitar , George Harrison electric guitar , Paul McCartney electric bass and Ringo Starr drums . Overdubs followed in which tambourines , additional guitars and backing vocals were added. The singer of the play was John Lennon. The backing vocals were from McCartney and Harrison.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jann S. Wenner: John Lennon and the Beatles . Höfen: Hannibal, 2002. pp. 106, 120.
2. ↑ imaginepeace.com: The Rolling Stone Interview . Accessed November 10, 2011.
3. ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko . Höfen: Hannibal, 2002. p. 185.
4. ^ Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head . Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007. pp. 161 f.