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The album's most significant new influence was Bob Dylan, who Paul and John both heard and met for the first time during 1964. In the early days, the Beatles had concentrated mainly on mastering the musical side of the songs — chord construction, arrangement and delivery. Dylan was the first recording artist to affect them primarily as lyricists. [...] They were drawn to Dylan because his words were just as important as his tunes. [...] The shift towards a narrative style that Dylan initiated particularly excited John. Dylan, and later the British journalist Kenneth Alsop, impressed upon him the fact that there need not be that great a gap between his 'literary' outpourings and lyric writing. |
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—Steve Turner, A Hard Day's Write, 1994
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I started thinking about my own emotions— I don't know when exactly it started like "I'm a Loser" or "Hide Your Love Away" or those kind of things— instead of projecting myself into a situation I would just try to express what I felt about myself which I'd done in me books. I think it was Dylan helped me realize that — not by any discussion or anything but just by hearing his work— I had a sort of professional songwriter's attitude to writing pop songs; he would turn out a certain style of song for a single and we would do a certain style of thing for this and the other thing. I was already a stylized songwriter on the first album. But to express myself I would write Spaniard in the Works or In His Own Write, the personal stories which were expressive of my personal emotions. I'd have a separate songwriting John Lennon who wrote songs for the sort of meat market, and I didn't consider them — the lyrics or anything — to have any depth at all. They were just a joke. Then I started being me about the songs, not writing them objectively, but subjectively. |
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—John Lennon, The Rolling Stone interview, 1972
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The album cover was rather nice: Robert Freeman's photos. It was easy. We did a session lasting a couple of hours and had some reasonable pictures to use.... The photographer would always be able to say to us, 'Just show up,' because we all wore the same kind of gear all the time. Black stuff; white shirts and big black scarves. |
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—Paul McCartney, 19__
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