Beatles Countdown #91 – I’ll Follow The Sun
{Mar 02}
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I didn’t realize until I started counting this down, but there are a lot of Paul McCartney songs on here. I’m not trying to badmouth him, but jeez! This is the tenth song we’ve covered so far: two have been by Harrison, two by McCartney & Lennon, and the rest by him! So yeah, here’s another McCartney song at #91 from the rushed album Beatles For Sale: “I’ll Follow The Sun.”
This song is interesting. It’s one of the first Paul ever wrote having originally penned it down when he was 16 after he had just recovered from the flu. The song itself never had serious attention paid to it, but it was actually one of the first songs the band ever recorded together. In 1960 (then with the original quintet of Paul, John, George, Stu Sutcliffe, & Pete Best), the then Quarrymen recorded a version slightly briefer while on break from school. It featured different lyrics, structure, and a different guitar section, but it still kept the same feeling of the song. Pete Best would later recall how even though it wasn’t a staple of their performances, he remembers Paul playing them between sets in Hamburg by himself on piano a handful of times. The band originally had thought of themselves with a harder image (when they dressed in all leather in Hamburg) which Best says is the reason they never played it as a group. Even as the band’s image softened in the following years, Paul still maintained that ballads didn’t fit their image as a rocking band so they kept ballads as sparse as possible. Think about that – The Beatles without ballads? Where would we be without Yesterday?
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