Difference between revisions of "Run for Your Life"

14 tracks
Side one "Drive My Car" "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" "You Won't See Me" "Nowhere Man" "Think for Yourself" "The Word" "Michelle" Side two "What Goes On" "Girl" "I'm Looking Through You" "In My Life" "Wait" "If I Needed Someone" "Run for Your Life"

“	It has a line from an old Presley song. 'I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man' is a line from an old blues song that Presley did once. Just sort of a throw-away song of mine that I never thought much of... but it was always a favorite of George's.	„
—John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, 1980

“	John was always on the run, running for his life. He was married; whereas none of my songs would have 'catch you with another man.' It was never a concern of mine, at all, because I had a girlfriend and I would go with other girls, it was a perfectly open relationship so I wasn't as worried about that as John was. A bit of a macho song. It was largely John's.	„
—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, p.279, 1994

“	I never liked 'Run For Your Life,' because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from — this is a very vague connection — from 'Baby Let’s Play House.' There was a line on it — 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 but I didn’t think it was that important.	„
—John Lennon, Rolling Stone interview, by Jann Wenner, 1971

Check out "classic" Elvis performing 'Baby Let's Play House'...

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 {{cquote|John was always on the run, running for his life. He was married; whereas none of my songs would have 'catch you with another man.' It was never a concern of mine, at all, because I had a girlfriend and I would go with other girls, it was a perfectly open relationship so I wasn't as worried about that as John was. A bit of a macho song. It was largely John's.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles, p.279|1994}}
-{{cquote|I never liked 'Run For Your Life' because it was just a song I knocked off. It was inspired from 'Baby, Let's Play House'. There was a line in it, I used to like specific lines from songs, 'I'd rather see you dead little girl, than to be with another man.' I wrote it around that, but I didn't think it was that important.|John Lennon, ''The Beatles Off The Record'', p.193|2000}}
+{{cquote|I never liked 'Run For Your Life,' because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from &#151; this is a very vague connection &#151; from 'Baby Let’s Play House.' There was a line on it &#151; I used to like specific lines from songs &#151; 'I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man' &#151; so I wrote it around that but I didn’t think it was that important.|John Lennon, [http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/John_Lennon_Part2.aspx ''Rolling Stone'' interview, by Jann Wenner]|1971}}
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