- I Need You (The Beatles song)
Song infobox
Name = I Need You
Artist =The Beatles
Album = Help!
Released =6 August 1965
track_no = 4
Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 15–16 February 1965
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:28
Writer =George Harrison
Label =Parlophone , Capitol,EMI
Producer =George Martin
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Help!
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
# "Help!"
# "The Night Before "
# "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away "
# "I Need You"
# "Another Girl "
# "You're Going to Lose That Girl "
# "Ticket to Ride ";Side two
# "Act Naturally "
# "It's Only Love "
# "You Like Me Too Much "
# "Tell Me What You See "
# "I've Just Seen a Face "
# "Yesterday"
# "Dizzy Miss Lizzy ""I Need You" is aBeatles song on the album "Help!" (see1965 in music ). It is the secondGeorge Harrison song the band recordedcite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |year=2005 |pages=145-146 |edition=Second Revised Edition |publisher=Pimlico (Rand) |location=London |isbn=1-844-13828-3] (on 15 and16 February 1965 )cite book |first=Mark |last=Lewisohn |authorlink=Mark Lewisohn |title=The Beatles Recording Sessions |year=1988 |pages=54 |publisher=Harmony Books |location=New York |isbn=0-517-57066-1] and released, after a two album–long hiatus. The song was performed in their second movie "Help!".The song is a simple, melancholy number, with a lead guitar sound achieved by Harrison's first recorded use of a volume pedal. The confessional lyrics are commonly thought to be about Harrison's relationship with
Pattie Boyd , whom he had met in March1964 while filming "A Hard Day's Night". (They married in January 1966.)cite book |first=Bill |last=Harry |authorlink=Bill Harry |title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated |year=2000 |pages=199 |publisher=Virgin Publishing |location=London |isbn=0-7535-0481-2]Credits
*
John Lennon – harmony vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar
*Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass
*George Harrison – double-tracked lead vocal, lead guitar,volume pedal
*Ringo Starr – drums, cowbell:"Credits per Ian MacDonald."Other versions
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the song in tribute to Harrison at
2002 'sConcert for George (see2002 in music ).cite album-notes |title=Concert for George |albumlink=Concert for George (album)|Concert for George |year=2002 |format=booklet |publisher=Oops Publishing |location=London |publisherid=R2 745/16 |pages=25]Les Fradkin has an instrumental version on his 2005 release- "While My Guitar Only Plays".Notes
External links
* [http://www.stevesbeatles.com/songs/i_need_you.asp Song lyrics]
* [http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/iny.html Alan W. Pollack's Notes On "I Need You"]
* [http://www.geocities.com/~hammodotcom/beathoven/harris3.htm "The Harrisong, Part III"]
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