Fact #52392
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Short story:
The Beatles are in Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe, recording What Goes On, a song they'd written two years earlier. Ringo Starr handles the lead vocal and contributed a few lines to the lyric. On the same day, Marianne Faithfull enters the UK singles chart with Yesterday, written by Paul McCartney of The Beatles. Her version will peak at No36.
Full article:
Ringo Starr (drummer, The Beatles] : I used to wish that I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others, they always say, 'Yeah, it sounds like such-a-thing,' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part-credit as a composer on one - What Goes On.
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