Today's song is "The Night Before", not to be confused with the Keanu Reeves movie. :P This one was written by Paul, and John plays the Hohner Pianet electric piano we heard in "Help!" yesterday.
I like this song--the call and response technique works really well with the song's structure and McCartney's guitar solo in the middle is pretty bangin'. I also like his vocals--he really belts it out and you can hear the feeling behind the words. :)
At BeatlesEBooks.com, author Rybaczewski points out similarities between "The Night Before" and what is possibly Paul's greatest song, "Yesterday". Both songs have a familiar theme, that everything was great yesterday but today things have fallen apart. Other than that, however, the two couldn't be more different (but we'll find out more about that in the future, when we get to "Yesterday"). Rybaczewski does mention that it's unlikely Paul wrote "The Night Before" about Jane Asher, since they went on a long vacation right after he wrote it. He says, "...it makes more sense to assume the lyrics are fictional, 'projecting myself into a situation and writing a nice story about it,' as John would describe it."
That's it for today. See you tomorrow! :)
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Heard It Tally: 10
Songs Completed: 75
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