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Most people with a certain level of obsession about The Beatles would certainly recognize the song as Lennon's, though with some amount of input from McCartney
by 2bitencryption 8y ago
Most people with a certain level of obsession about The Beatles would certainly recognize the song as Lennon's, though with some amount of input from McCartney that could range from no involvement to half-and-half.
It's too conjunct to be Paul's, but that doesn't mean he didn't give any input.
I question this analysis because it seems like an easy target -- the song obviously has Lennon's fingerprint on it (a melody hovering around just a few notes with thick harmonies), and the headline of "study reveals new insight into Beatles songwriting" is too juicy for my liking.
- brianberns 8y agoBoth John and Paul agree that Paul wrote at least some of the music, and yet this article says that John wrote the whole thing. I believe John and Paul.
- rmrfrmrf 8y agoWhat this article seems to also be missing is that there are actually two versions of the song. I'd say that the final recording is indisputably Lennon, but the original is very much McCartney. The final version's lyrics are abstract and have the interplay of dark and light. The original version is very concrete and almost ballad-like, very much McCartney's style (it even mentions Penny Lane). What this kind of approach misses is that shared writing credits don't necessarily mean writing together at the same time. While the two have been known to go off and write a piece together, I think there's a decent argument to be made that McCartney sketched out the idea for "In My Life" and Lennon refined it.
- itronitron 8y agoYes, they seem to think that the song has a single incarnation and didn't go through an iterative process of creative development.