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"'''For No One'''" is a song by the English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Beatles]] from their 1966 album ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]''. It was written by [[Paul McCartney]], and credited to [[Lennon–McCartney]]. An early example of [[baroque pop]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Steve Smith: Wyman and Taylor join the Rolling Stones onstage; Coldplay takes a break |url=http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/weekend/ci_22091693/steve-smith-wyman-and-taylor-join-rolling-stones |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203041259/http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/weekend/ci_22091693/steve-smith-wyman-and-taylor-join-rolling-stones |archive-date=3 December 2012 |access-date=2016-05-07}}. ''[[Pasadena Star-News]]''. 29 November 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Parsons |first=Matthew |date=7 January 2016 |title=25 classical pieces with surprising Beatles connections |url=http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2016/1/25-classical-pieces-with-surprising-Beatles-connections |access-date=7 May 2016 |publisher=[[CBC Music]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brackett |first1=Nathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA53 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |last2=Hoard |first2=Christian David |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-74320-169-8 |page=53}}</ref> drawing on both [[baroque music]] and nineteenth-century [[art song]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "For No One" |url=https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/fno.shtml |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=www.icce.rug.nl}}</ref> it describes the end of a romantic relationship. Mostly performed by the composer, the track is distinguished by its [[French horn]] line performed by [[Alan Civil]], played first as a solo and then as [[counterpoint]] in the final verse. It was considered one of McCartney's most mature compositions to date on its release.<ref name="RS Sheffield" />
"'''For No One'''" is a song by the English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Beatles]] from their 1966 album ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]''. It was written by [[Paul McCartney]], and credited to [[Lennon–McCartney]]. An early example of [[baroque pop]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Steve Smith: Wyman and Taylor join the Rolling Stones onstage; Coldplay takes a break |url=http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/weekend/ci_22091693/steve-smith-wyman-and-taylor-join-rolling-stones |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203041259/http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/weekend/ci_22091693/steve-smith-wyman-and-taylor-join-rolling-stones |archive-date=3 December 2012 |access-date=2016-05-07}}. ''[[Pasadena Star-News]]''. 29 November 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Parsons |first=Matthew |date=7 January 2016 |title=25 classical pieces with surprising Beatles connections |url=http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2016/1/25-classical-pieces-with-surprising-Beatles-connections |access-date=7 May 2016 |publisher=[[CBC Music]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brackett |first1=Nathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA53 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |last2=Hoard |first2=Christian David |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-74320-169-8 |page=53}}</ref> drawing on both [[baroque music]] and nineteenth-century [[art song]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "For No One" |url=https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/fno.shtml |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=www.icce.rug.nl}}</ref> it describes the end of a romantic relationship. Mostly performed by McCartney, the track is distinguished by its [[French horn]] line performed by [[Alan Civil]], played first as a solo and then as [[counterpoint]] in the final verse. It was considered one of McCartney's most mature compositions to date on its release.<ref name="RS Sheffield" />


==Writing and recording==
==Writing and recording==
McCartney recalls writing "For No One" in the bathroom of a ski resort in the [[Swiss Alps]]{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=207}} while on holiday with his then girlfriend [[Jane Asher]]; "I suspect it was about another argument," he later recalled.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=289}} The lyrics end enigmatically with the line "A love that should have lasted years". The song's working title was "Why Did It Die?"{{sfn|Dowlding|1989|p=142}} The composition is built on a [[Chord progression#Harmonizing the scale|descending scale progression]] in B major with a refrain that [[modulation (music)|modulates]] to C-sharp minor.<ref name=":0" />
McCartney recalls writing "For No One" in the bathroom of a ski resort in the [[Swiss Alps]]{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=207}} while on holiday with his then girlfriend [[Jane Asher]].{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=289}} In his book ''[[The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present]]'' (2021), McCartney said that the song is "about rejection": "I'm talking about two people who've broken up, but obviously, as with any writer, it all comes from your own experience, and inevitably you're talking about yourself."{{sfn|McCartney|2021|p=179}} The lyrics end enigmatically with the line "A love that should have lasted years". The song's working title was "Why Did It Die?"{{sfn|Dowlding|1989|p=142}} The composition is built on a [[Chord progression#Harmonizing the scale|descending scale progression]] in B major with a refrain that [[modulation (music)|modulates]] to C-sharp minor.<ref name=":0" />


The song was recorded on 9, 16 and 19 May 1966. McCartney sang and played [[clavichord]] (rented from [[George Martin]]'s [[AIR Studios|AIR]] company), piano and bass guitar, while [[Ringo Starr]] played drums, tambourine and [[maracas]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Everett|first=Walter|author-link=Walter Everett (musicologist)|year=1999|title=The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-19-512941-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTkHAldi4bEC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/for-no-one/|title=For No One (song)|website=The Paul McCartney project|access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> Neither [[John Lennon]] nor [[George Harrison]] contributed to the recording.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=78–79}}
The song was recorded on 9, 16 and 19 May 1966. McCartney sang and played [[clavichord]] (rented from [[George Martin]]'s [[AIR Studios|AIR]] company), piano and bass guitar, while [[Ringo Starr]] played drums, tambourine and [[maracas]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Everett |first=Walter|author-link=Walter Everett (musicologist) |year=1999 |title=The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-512941-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTkHAldi4bEC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/for-no-one/ |title=For No One (song) |website=The Paul McCartney project|access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> Neither [[John Lennon]] nor [[George Harrison]] contributed to the recording.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=78–79}}


The [[French horn]] solo was by [[Alan Civil]], a British horn player described by [[recording engineer]] [[Geoff Emerick]] as the "best horn player in London".{{sfn|Emerick|Massey|2006|pp=128–129}} During the session, McCartney pushed Civil to play a note that was beyond the usual range of the instrument. According to Emerick, the result was the "performance of his life".{{sfn|Emerick|Massey|2006|pp=128–129}} Civil said that the song was "recorded in rather bad musical style, in that it was 'in the cracks' [not in [[concert pitch]]], neither B-flat nor B-major. This posed a certain difficulty in tuning my instrument."{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=79}} Civil is one of the few session musicians to receive credit on a Beatles album.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes | title=Revolver | title-link = Revolver (Beatles album) | year =1966 | type = LP cover (back) | publisher = [[Parlophone Records]] | id = PCS7009 }}</ref>
The [[French horn]] solo was by [[Alan Civil]], a British horn player described by [[recording engineer]] [[Geoff Emerick]] as the "best horn player in London".{{sfn|Emerick|Massey|2006|pp=128–129}} During the session, McCartney pushed Civil to play a note that was beyond the usual range of the instrument. According to Emerick, the result was the "performance of his life".{{sfn|Emerick|Massey|2006|pp=128–129}} Civil said that the song was "recorded in rather bad musical style, in that it was 'in the cracks' [not in [[concert pitch]]], neither B-flat nor B-major. This posed a certain difficulty in tuning my instrument."{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=79}} Civil is one of the few session musicians to receive credit on a Beatles album.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Revolver | title-link = Revolver (Beatles album) |year=1966 |type=LP cover (back) |publisher=[[Parlophone Records]] |id=PCS7009}}</ref>


==Reception==
==Reception==
In her contemporaneous review of ''Revolver'', for ''[[Evening Standard|The Evening Standard]]'', [[Maureen Cleave]] highlighted "For No One" among McCartney's contributions and deemed it "as moving as '[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]'".<ref>{{cite news|first=Maureen|last=Cleave|title=The Beatles: ''Revolver'' (Parlophone PMC 7009)|newspaper=[[Evening Standard|The Evening Standard]]|date=30 July 1966}} Available at [https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-beatles-irevolveri-parlophone-pmc-7009 Rock's Backpages] (subscription required).</ref>
In her contemporaneous review of ''Revolver'', for ''[[Evening Standard|The Evening Standard]]'', [[Maureen Cleave]] highlighted "For No One" among McCartney's contributions and deemed it "as moving as '[[Yesterday (song)|Yesterday]]'".<ref>{{cite news |first=Maureen |last=Cleave |title=The Beatles: ''Revolver'' (Parlophone PMC 7009) |newspaper=[[Evening Standard|The Evening Standard]] |date=30 July 1966}} Available at [https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-beatles-irevolveri-parlophone-pmc-7009 Rock's Backpages] (subscription required).</ref>


Thomas Ward of [[AllMusic]] describes "For No One" as "one of Paul McCartney's great ballads with the Beatles", adding that it is "a simply beautiful song, full of idiosyncratic McCartney touches yet undeniably inspired".<ref name="AllMusic review">{{cite web |last1=Ward |first1=Thomas |title="For No One" – The Beatles |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/for-no-one-mt0010100263 |publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2 March 2019}}</ref> Ward praises McCartney's vocal performance and calls the song's melody "one of the most inspired of the singer's whole career".<ref name="AllMusic review" /> Ward also admires the bass line and French horn solo, and concludes his review by calling the song "one of the most delicate and fine ballads of the Beatles' entire canon".<ref name="AllMusic review" />
Thomas Ward of [[AllMusic]] describes "For No One" as "one of Paul McCartney's great ballads with the Beatles", adding that it is "a simply beautiful song, full of idiosyncratic McCartney touches yet undeniably inspired".<ref name="AllMusic review">{{cite web |last1=Ward |first1=Thomas |title="For No One" – The Beatles |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/for-no-one-mt0010100263 |publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2 March 2019}}</ref> Ward praises McCartney's vocal performance and calls the song's melody "one of the most inspired of the singer's whole career".<ref name="AllMusic review" /> Ward also admires the bass line and French horn solo, and concludes his review by calling the song "one of the most delicate and fine ballads of the Beatles' entire canon".<ref name="AllMusic review" />
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[[Rob Sheffield]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' writes that McCartney's songs on ''Revolver'' "[had] a new caustic realism".<ref name="RS Sheffield">{{cite magazine |last1=Sheffield |first1=Rob |title=Celebrating 'Revolver': Beatles' First On-Purpose Masterpiece |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/celebrating-revolver-beatles-first-on-purpose-masterpiece-248790/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=5 August 2016 |access-date=12 March 2019}}</ref> He calls "For No One" the "ultimate 'you stay home, she goes out' break-up song".<ref name="RS Sheffield" /> Lennon called the song "one of [his] favourites of [McCartney's]" and "a nice piece of work."{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=209}}
[[Rob Sheffield]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' writes that McCartney's songs on ''Revolver'' "[had] a new caustic realism".<ref name="RS Sheffield">{{cite magazine |last1=Sheffield |first1=Rob |title=Celebrating 'Revolver': Beatles' First On-Purpose Masterpiece |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/celebrating-revolver-beatles-first-on-purpose-masterpiece-248790/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=5 August 2016 |access-date=12 March 2019}}</ref> He calls "For No One" the "ultimate 'you stay home, she goes out' break-up song".<ref name="RS Sheffield" /> Lennon called the song "one of [his] favourites of [McCartney's]" and "a nice piece of work."{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=209}}


Elvis Costello named it his favorite Beatles song in an interview, stating, {{"'}}For No One' is everything that’s great about Paul McCartney in one song ... It's a really beautiful melody. He's like a fantastic movie actor who doesn't do anything. He doesn't over-dramatize." Costello went on to call it McCartney's best lyric and lauded the song's arrangement, concluding, "It's about as perfect a record as you could make."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-15 |title=80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2187691/paul-mccartney-80th-birthday-tribute/lists/ultimate-playlist/ |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref>
[[Elvis Costello]] named it his favourite Beatles song, stating in an interview, {{"'}}For No One' is everything that's great about Paul McCartney in one song ... It's a really beautiful melody. He's like a fantastic movie actor who doesn't do anything. He doesn't over-dramatize." Costello went on to call it McCartney's best lyric and lauded the song's arrangement, concluding, "It's about as perfect a record as you could make."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-15 |title=80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2187691/paul-mccartney-80th-birthday-tribute/lists/ultimate-playlist/ |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref>


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
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==References==
==References==
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* {{cite book |author=The Beatles |year=2000| author-link=The Beatles |title=The Beatles Anthology |publisher=Chronicle Books |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-8118-2684-8| url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesanthology0000unse}}
* {{cite book
* {{cite book |last=Dowlding |first=William J |year=1989 |title=Beatlesongs |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |isbn=0-671-68229-6}}
| author=The Beatles
* {{cite book |last1=Emerick |first1=Geoff |year=2006| author-link=Geoff Emerick |last2=Massey |first2=Howard |title=Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=New York |isbn=1-59240-179-1}}
| year=2000
| author-link=The Beatles
| title=The Beatles Anthology
| publisher=Chronicle Books
| location=San Francisco
| isbn=0-8118-2684-8
| url-access=registration
| url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesanthology0000unse
}}
* {{cite book
| last=Dowlding
| first=William J
| year=1989
| title=Beatlesongs
| publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]
| location=New York
| isbn=0-671-68229-6
}}
* {{cite book
| last1=Emerick
| first1=Geoff
| year=2006
| author-link=Geoff Emerick
| last2=Massey
| first2=Howard
| title=Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
| publisher=[[Penguin Books]]
| location=New York
| isbn=1-59240-179-1
}}
* {{cite book |last1=Guesdon |first1=Jean-Michel |last2=Margotin |first2=Philippe |title=All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release |date=2013 |publisher=[[Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers]] |location=New York City |isbn=978-1-57912-952-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXKnAgAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last1=Guesdon |first1=Jean-Michel |last2=Margotin |first2=Philippe |title=All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release |date=2013 |publisher=[[Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers]] |location=New York City |isbn=978-1-57912-952-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXKnAgAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Lewisohn |first=Mark |year=1988| author-link=Mark Lewisohn |title=The Beatles Recording Sessions |publisher=[[Harmony Books]] |location=New York |isbn=0-517-57066-1}}
* {{cite book
| last=Lewisohn
| first=Mark
| year=1988
| author-link=Mark Lewisohn
| title=The Beatles Recording Sessions
| publisher=[[Harmony Books]]
| location=New York
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}}
* {{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Ian |author1-link=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |date=2007 |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |isbn=978-1-55652-733-3 |edition=Third |url=https://archive.org/details/revolutioninhead0003macd |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Ian |author1-link=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |date=2007 |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |isbn=978-1-55652-733-3 |edition=Third |url=https://archive.org/details/revolutioninhead0003macd |url-access=registration}}
*{{cite book |last=McCartney |first=Paul |author-link=Paul McCartney |editor-last=Muldoon |editor-first=Paul |title=The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present |year=2021 |publisher=[[Boni & Liveright|Liveright]] |location=New York City |isbn=978-1631492563 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Lyrics/D4eQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en }}
* {{cite book
* {{cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |year=1997| author-link=Barry Miles |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now |publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-5249-6| url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneyman00mile}}
| last=Miles
| first=Barry
| year=1997
| author-link=Barry Miles
| title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now
| publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company]]
| location=New York
| isbn=0-8050-5249-6
| url-access=registration
| url=https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneyman00mile
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Latest revision as of 12:30, 11 May 2026

"For No One"
Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music (licensed to Sonora Musikförlag)
Song by the Beatles
from the album Revolver
Released5 August 1966
Recorded9, 16 and 19 May 1966
StudioEMI, London
GenreBaroque pop
Length2:00
LabelParlophone
SongwriterLennon–McCartney
ProducerGeorge Martin

"For No One" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was written by Paul McCartney, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. An early example of baroque pop[1][2][3] drawing on both baroque music and nineteenth-century art song,[4] it describes the end of a romantic relationship. Mostly performed by McCartney, the track is distinguished by its French horn line performed by Alan Civil, played first as a solo and then as counterpoint in the final verse. It was considered one of McCartney's most mature compositions to date on its release.[5]

Writing and recording

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McCartney recalls writing "For No One" in the bathroom of a ski resort in the Swiss Alps[6] while on holiday with his then girlfriend Jane Asher.[7] In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (2021), McCartney said that the song is "about rejection": "I'm talking about two people who've broken up, but obviously, as with any writer, it all comes from your own experience, and inevitably you're talking about yourself."[8] The lyrics end enigmatically with the line "A love that should have lasted years". The song's working title was "Why Did It Die?"[9] The composition is built on a descending scale progression in B major with a refrain that modulates to C-sharp minor.[4]

The song was recorded on 9, 16 and 19 May 1966. McCartney sang and played clavichord (rented from George Martin's AIR company), piano and bass guitar, while Ringo Starr played drums, tambourine and maracas.[10][11] Neither John Lennon nor George Harrison contributed to the recording.[12]

The French horn solo was by Alan Civil, a British horn player described by recording engineer Geoff Emerick as the "best horn player in London".[13] During the session, McCartney pushed Civil to play a note that was beyond the usual range of the instrument. According to Emerick, the result was the "performance of his life".[13] Civil said that the song was "recorded in rather bad musical style, in that it was 'in the cracks' [not in concert pitch], neither B-flat nor B-major. This posed a certain difficulty in tuning my instrument."[14] Civil is one of the few session musicians to receive credit on a Beatles album.[15]

Reception

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In her contemporaneous review of Revolver, for The Evening Standard, Maureen Cleave highlighted "For No One" among McCartney's contributions and deemed it "as moving as 'Yesterday'".[16]

Thomas Ward of AllMusic describes "For No One" as "one of Paul McCartney's great ballads with the Beatles", adding that it is "a simply beautiful song, full of idiosyncratic McCartney touches yet undeniably inspired".[17] Ward praises McCartney's vocal performance and calls the song's melody "one of the most inspired of the singer's whole career".[17] Ward also admires the bass line and French horn solo, and concludes his review by calling the song "one of the most delicate and fine ballads of the Beatles' entire canon".[17]

Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone writes that McCartney's songs on Revolver "[had] a new caustic realism".[5] He calls "For No One" the "ultimate 'you stay home, she goes out' break-up song".[5] Lennon called the song "one of [his] favourites of [McCartney's]" and "a nice piece of work."[18]

Elvis Costello named it his favourite Beatles song, stating in an interview, "'For No One' is everything that's great about Paul McCartney in one song ... It's a really beautiful melody. He's like a fantastic movie actor who doesn't do anything. He doesn't over-dramatize." Costello went on to call it McCartney's best lyric and lauded the song's arrangement, concluding, "It's about as perfect a record as you could make."[19]

Personnel

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According to Ian MacDonald,[20] except where noted:

The Beatles

Additional musician

Notes

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  1. ↑ "Steve Smith: Wyman and Taylor join the Rolling Stones onstage; Coldplay takes a break". Archived from the original on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2016.. Pasadena Star-News. 29 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Parsons, Matthew (7 January 2016). "25 classical pieces with surprising Beatles connections". CBC Music. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-74320-169-8.
  4. 1 2 "Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "For No One"". www.icce.rug.nl. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 Sheffield, Rob (5 August 2016). "Celebrating 'Revolver': Beatles' First On-Purpose Masterpiece". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  6. ↑ The Beatles 2000, p. 207.
  7. ↑ Miles 1997, p. 289.
  8. ↑ McCartney 2021, p. 179.
  9. ↑ Dowlding 1989, p. 142.
  10. ↑ Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0.
  11. ↑ "For No One (song)". The Paul McCartney project. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  12. ↑ Lewisohn 1988, pp. 78–79.
  13. 1 2 Emerick & Massey 2006, pp. 128–129.
  14. ↑ Lewisohn 1988, p. 79.
  15. ↑ Revolver (LP cover (back)). Parlophone Records. 1966. PCS7009.
  16. ↑ Cleave, Maureen (30 July 1966). "The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone PMC 7009)". The Evening Standard. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).
  17. 1 2 3 Ward, Thomas. ""For No One" – The Beatles". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  18. ↑ The Beatles 2000, p. 209.
  19. ↑ "80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday". Stereogum. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  20. ↑ MacDonald 2007, pp. 205–206.
  21. ↑ Guesdon & Margotin 2013, p. 342.

References

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