Paul McCartney’s Favorite Beatles Song

Paul
McCartney
is often
asked
about his
favorite

Beatles
song,
and
he
admits
it’s
a
hard
question
to
answer,
but “if
pushed,”
he admitted
recently,
it’s “Here,
There
and
Everywhere.”

McCartney
named
the
song
as
his
favorite
on
a newly
released
episode
of
his
podcast,


McCartney:
A
Life
in
Lyrics,
going
on
to
explain
how
Fred
Astaire
was
a
partial
inspiration
for
the
1966 track
that
appeared
on


Revolver.

“I
was
a
big
fan
of
Fred
Astaire,
I
still
am,”
he
said. “And
unlike
the
studio
executives,
who
thought
he
could
dance
a
little,
has
no
voice.
I
always
loved
his
voice,
I
still
do.”

McCartney
also
explained
how
he
wrote
the
song
one
day
while
waiting
for

John
Lennon
to
wake
up
for
the
day.

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“I
would
go
out
to
his
house
for
a
writing
session,
and
he
wasn’t
always
up,”
he
said. “So
I
would
often
have
20
minutes,
half
an
hour
while
someone
told
him
I
was
here,
and
he
would
get
up.
I
remember
sitting
out
by
his
swimming
pool
in
his
house
in
Weybridge,
which
is
a
golf
suburb
of
London.
I
had
my
guitar
because
I
was
ready
for
the
writing
session.
So
we
sat
out
and
started
something…it
just
went
quite
nice
and
smoothly.
So
by
the
time
I
came
to
write
with
John,
by
the
time
he
deemed
to
get
up
and
have
his
coffee,
I
would
have
something
to
go
on.”

Listen
to
the
Beatles’ ‘Here,
There
and
Everywhere’

But
even
then,
McCartney
said
he
wasn’t
entirely
sure
the
direction
the
song’s
lyrics
would
take.

“Even
when
you
get
lyrics
like
this,
the
purpose
of
the
lyric
is
to
support
the
song
rather
than
be
a
lyric.
It’s
quite
liberating,”
he
continued. “You
can
just
experiment
as
you
go
along.
So
things
slip
out
like
they
would
in
a
session
with
a
psychiatrist…Basically,
I
always
say
when
I’m
writing
a
song,
I’m
following
a
trail
of
breadcrumbs.
Someone’s
thrown
out
these
breadcrumbs,
and
I
see
the
first
few,
and
you
just
go
along,
and
I
feel
like
I’m
following
the
song
rather
than
writing
it.”