Fact #89972
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Short story:
The Beatles record Day Tripper and start work on If I Needed Someone, for the album Rubber Soul, at EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
Full article:
Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) : George Harrison wrote this song (If I Needed Someone) after hearing The Byrds' recording of Bells of Rhymney. He gave a copy of his new recording to Derek Taylor, the Beatles former press officer. Derek flew from London to Los Angeles with the preview record of Revolver. He brought it over to my house and said that George wanted me to know that he had written the song based on the rising and falling notes of my electric Rickenbacker 12-string guitar introduction. It was a great honor to have in some small way influenced our heroes the Beatles.
(Source : interview at http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/DeepQuestions.html)
George Harrison (guitarist, The Beatles] : (If I Needed Someone was) like a million other songs written around one chord. Yeah, a D chord actually. It was based on the 12-string figure from The Bells Of Rhymney by The Byrds.
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(Source : interview at http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/DeepQuestions.html)
George Harrison (guitarist, The Beatles] : (If I Needed Someone was) like a million other songs written around one chord. Yeah, a D chord actually. It was based on the 12-string figure from The Bells Of Rhymney by The Byrds.
(Source : not known)