Paul McCartney Said John Lennon's Last-Minute Addition to 'All My Loving' Made It Magical

Paul McCartney said John Lennon‘s last-minute addition to The Beatles‘ “All My Loving” made it magical. The songwriting partners added something special to each other’s songs every time.

In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote about writing “All My Loving.” He said he wrote it while traveling on a tour bus and doesn’t think he wrote it about his girlfriend, Jane Asher.

Paul wrote, “So I was on a tour bus somewhere in the U.K., with nothing to do, and I started to think of these words: ‘Close your eyes . . ‘ Although we’d met at this point, I don’t know that I was thinking specifically of Jane Asher when I wrote this, though we were courting.

“It’s probably more of a reflection on what our lives were like then – leaving behind family and friends to go on tour and experience all these new adventures.

“It’s one of the few songs I’ve written where the words came first. That almost never happens, I usually have an instrument with me. So, I’d started work on the lyrics on the bus, and back then we were playing what was known as the Moss Empires circuit.”

Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com

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