Paul McCartney’s favourite among his own compositions, Here, There And Everywhere’ is often cited as his finest love song. It was written alongside John Lennon’s swimming pool in Weybridge, while McCartney waited for Lennon to wake sat out by the pool on one of the sun chairs with my guitar and started strumming in E, and soon had a few chords, and I think by the time he’d woken up, I had pretty much written the song, so we took it indoors and finished it up.Here, There And Everywhere’ was particularly highly regarded by song completely, I believe. And one of my favourite songs of The McCartney claims to have had a demo version in March 1965, while The Beatles filmed Help! in Obertauern, and I shared a room and we were taking off our heavy ski boots after a day’s filming, ready to have a shower and get ready for the nice bit, the evening meal and the drinks. We were playing a cassette of our new recordings and my song Here, There And Everywhere’ was on. And I remember John saying, You know, I probably like that better than any of my songs on the tape.’ Coming from John, that was high praise the song was written with Jane Asher in mind, McCartney found inspiration for his vocals from a less likely I sang it in the studio I remember thinking, I’ll sing it like Marianne Faithfull; something no one would ever know… So that was a little voice, I used an almost falsetto voice and double-tracked it. My Marianne Faithfull the studioRecording for Here, There And Everywhere’ took place over three days. On 14 June 1966 The Beatles recorded four takes, only the final one of which was complete and with vocals. The group overdubbed the first of the harmony vocals that would be so important to the final harmonies were performed by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison, and were arranged by George Martin, who was somewhat modest about his harmonies on that are very simple, just basic triads which the boys hummed behind and found very easy to do. There’s nothing very clever, no counterpoint, just moving block harmonies. Very simple to do… but very 16 June they recorded takes 5-13 of the rhythm track, the last of which was deemed to be the best. Onto this they overdubbed more harmony vocals along with McCartney’s lead vocals and bass guitar. The following day McCartney double-tracked his lead vocals, and the song was 1996 the Real Love’ single featured a composite of take 7, featuring McCartney’s guide vocals, and the harmonies overdubbed onto take 13. This version is unavailable on any official Beatles favourite line is Changing my life with a wave of her hand’. I look at that line now and wonder where it came from. What was it? Was I thinking of the queen waving from the royal carriage? Or just the power of the little thing. The power of doing hardly anything. She waves her hand and she’s changed my life. It summons up a now when I sing it, I look back at it and think, The boy’s not bad.’ In fact, if pushed, I would say that Here, There and Everywhere’ is my own favourite of all my songs. Previous song Love You To’Published 15 March 2008 Last updated 1 March 2023