How The Beatles Made "For No One" | The Revolver Sessions

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Everything you need to know about the Beatles' "For No One." |
Written in March 1966 on holiday with Jane Asher in Switzerland, "For No One" is a curiously serene account of the end of an affair, as matter-of-fact in its recognition of deceased love as "Eleanor Rigby" in its tale of lonely death. The song's original title was "Why Did It Die?" The only emotion shown in this elegant waltz comes in a puzzled reckoning: 'a love that should have lasted years'. Neither partner on Paul's cool scenario commands much sympathy, his detachment precluding the compassion of "Eleanor Rigby."
One may speculate that Paul's relationship with Dot Rhone was the inspiration for "For No One," but later insights appear to point in another direction. His book "Many Years From Now" has him relating: 🗣️ "I suspect it was about another argument. I don’t have easy relationships with women, I never have. I talk too much truth. It's a song about rejection. The breakup, or marking the end of a relationship that didn't work, has always been quite a rich area to explore in a song. Jane Asher and I were together for around five years, so at the back of my mind I expected to marry her, but as the time got closer, I think I also realized it wasn't right."
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@heatherqualy9143 2 ай бұрын

For No One is a song that, over the decades, has moments where it tops my list of Beatles songs. When it hits just right with your mood, it is magical.

@TonyLovell 2 ай бұрын

This, and Eleanor and She's Leaving Home have grown in my estimation as I age.

@MLGadventuersinfinance101 25 күн бұрын

@@TonyLovell so tru Tony, as we compare to what we hear as modern music now they sound better and better

@MLGadventuersinfinance101 25 күн бұрын

yes, i agree when i am in that state it makes me cry (FYI am 70 and saw them at maple leaf gardens for my birthday, as they played 2 shows that day I saw them in afternoon) and a month later that was the end of touring

@billyhodges7194 2 ай бұрын

Loved this album since I was a kid , by far their best and FNO is absolutely their most underrated song and possibly my favourite

@CraigCholar 2 ай бұрын

Amen to everything you wrote.

@LRBeatles 2 ай бұрын

Agreed, it really is THE most underrated song in their discography.

@staggerlee7301 2 ай бұрын

Easily my favorite Paul song

@ExplodingPsyche 2 ай бұрын

@@TopballerAU You mean ADITL. 🤣

@charlesbronson4282 2 ай бұрын

Great song. Great album. Great band.....an unbelievably great band

@nathanmiller2982 Ай бұрын

The unbelievable part is very true

@marcob6880 Ай бұрын

For no one is such a wonderful piece, it is a love and a song that certainly has lasted years.

@robmarshall9026 2 ай бұрын

Absolute masterpiece

@davefordavefor 2 ай бұрын

Great video explaining this great song. Terrific lyrics, “You want her. You need her. Still you don’t believe her when she says her love is dead. You think she needs you. In her eyes you see nothing. No sign of love behind the tears cried for noone.”

@nezbit8989 2 ай бұрын

The whole thing was a one off with the right people in the right place at the right time with the perfect timing and that’s why I love them ❤

@StrawberryFieldsForEveryone 2 ай бұрын

awesome! one of my favorite songs

@deadlyoneable 2 ай бұрын

I learned this on guitar years ago and it’s still one of my favorites to play. Love the chord progressions.

@stephenhosking7384 2 ай бұрын

I've been building up to it for years! I don't want to touch it until I can play it properly.

@strikerorwell9232 2 ай бұрын

As a long time Beatles fan I dismissed any claims that Lennon/McCartney didnt write all their songs? But after some research as an amateur musician who knows how hard it is to write, rehearse and record with a band I find it remarkable to how they recorded both Rubber Soul and Revolver in such a short time and they were also on tour and both Lennon and McCartney says they never wrote songs during their tours? According to the official narrative Paul McCartney said this about the recording of Rubber Soul: “We went into the studio, and we had no songs. We wrote them in the studio, rehearsed them, and recorded them.” Regarding the official recording dates for Rubber Soul: The album was recorded between October 12 and November 15, 1965 This feat seem impossible no matter how talented you are and given the fact that no one in the Beatles were educated musicians who could write notes etc. Im not saying they didnt write every song they claim, I just find it very, very strange?

@Judyag1 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful song, always on my favorite list.

@skibo3522 2 ай бұрын

Yo Beatles Bible, This song has been one of my fondest of the Beatles but especially by Paul from the 'early days'. As a matter of fact, it was the ONLY one that I recalled John ever really publicly praising of Paul's so it stood out even more then, than now. As per usual however you have come along and finally done all the real 'Deep Digging' it takes to have that total Beatles understanding of (in a proper sort of way). Do you know what I mean?!? I've never known this further end part, let alone who played that haunting horn section 'till just now, so very glad that you did this AND then posted it. Thank you very MUCH!!

@stephenhosking7384 2 ай бұрын

It's long been my favourite Beatles song, but I'd never made the connection to "Another Day", which is one of my favourites from his solo career. So glad to be informed of that.

@JimCox-mi2qi 29 күн бұрын

Great great song !!!

@gaizkasalazarrodriguez5054 2 ай бұрын

Sublime SONG!!!🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

@CosmicMapping 2 ай бұрын

Knowing that Another Day is a sequel to For No One is CRAZY. What a perfect story

@ellenbeckmann4293 2 ай бұрын

Love❤ this Song,,and in her 👀you see nothing the lyrics are so good.,by the way wonderful pics inside the Video 😍thank you from Germany, Beatles Fan Elli ✌❤

@kingdicelille 2 ай бұрын

One of my favorite songs ever. According to different sources (Mark Lewisohn, Geoff Emerick,...), Alan Civil's solo was not improvised but dictated by Paul and written down (on a score) by George Martin. Same as for "Penny Lane" actually.

@stephenhosking7384 2 ай бұрын

There's a video of Paul demoing the song (to George Martin, apparently) in the studio, and at the start of the instrumental he says "French Horn" and hums the part. To my ears, it is exactly what was recorded by the horn.

@aucourant9998 6 күн бұрын

This is my favourite McCartney song. Pure genius.

@lumigpictures 2 ай бұрын

I could have sworn this horn was recorded at a different speed, slower and lower (just like the harpsichordish piano solo in In my life, recorded an octave lower). Amazing that this player actually managed to reach those notes with such clarity

@joseaqamart1257 2 ай бұрын

That one is really fast and was played by George Martin. This one is mid tempo and not that high on the pitch.

@lumigpictures 2 ай бұрын

@@joseaqamart1257 yeah, I figured it was recorded at a smaller difference of speed, like a second lower or something like that. In my life was an octave lower, which is half the speed

@PaulLea 2 ай бұрын

Your clips are always fascinating. Thanks !.

@strathman7501 2 ай бұрын

Not sure I'd agree with your summary of this as emotionless and unsympathetic, but I know what you mean by "curiously serene". I think this detachment is its strength - the emotion in the lyric is vivid but distant, viewed as though happening to someone else, because the narrator is numbed by the pain. A line like "she wakes up, she makes up, she takes her time, she doesn't feel she has to hurry" is so well observed it perfectly nails the whole situation and is all the more poignant for being done with absolutely no histrionics. It is work of genius. BTW, the french horn was *not* George Martin's idea. Paul: "I was interested in the French horn; because it was an instrument I’d always loved from when I was a kid. It’s a beautiful sound, so I went to George Martin..." Martin himself said: "we wanted a very special sound, and French horn was what he [Paul] chose." (Anthology)

@gjs9366 2 ай бұрын

One of Paul's very best.

@barrysallows1777 2 ай бұрын

thank you very enjoyable!!

@guitar1067 2 ай бұрын

Well done! Saw the Beatles Aug. 15 1966, about a week after Revolver's US release; was disappointed they played no songs from the album. Not known at the time, they would play just 4 or 5 more concerts before ending touring, and thus no one ever heard them play any Revolver songs live.

@promerops 2 ай бұрын

Peter Noone tells an amusing story about finding, at the Abbey Road studios, a tape marked, what looked like "FOR NOONE" and thinking it had a song for him!

@briglop6 2 ай бұрын

That's awesome. That would have been interesting to hear him cover it.

@mirarki 2 ай бұрын

Nice video about one of my favourites, and definitely one of the best rejection songs ever. One minor criticism--it's not a waltz (3/4), it's 4/4.

@GroveEndRoad 2 ай бұрын

I think it in 2/2

@Mojo16011973 16 күн бұрын

most underrated Beatles song ever.

@mrwittyone 2 ай бұрын

Was that John saying "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No one" were his favorite Paul songs? Lennon is my favorite Beatle through-and-through, but what he said is my sentiment, too. Those are two of my favorite Beatles' songs ever.

@owendarby2172 2 ай бұрын

Certainly was John saying that. 🙏🏼✌🏼

@Blisteryn 2 ай бұрын

This channel is my everything ❤❤❤

@jaymo8206 2 ай бұрын

Recently discovered and subscribed. The stories and production behind the songs are amazing with new info. In my collection I have a book titled, The Complete Recording Sessions at Abbey Road. This channel has even more background stories than in the book. Thanks for all the research and hard work. For No One used to be my breakup song. Still one of my favorites from the Fab Four

@steveconn 2 ай бұрын

It's part of the Baroque sound that's part of Revolver, like the strings on Eleanor Rigby. Why the album is a little more musically interesting than Pepper.

@felixramirez6898 2 ай бұрын

" I look up and there walking thru the door is ... The .. Big , Bad Beatle . Paul McCartney " Jimi Hendrix , London 1967

@drewsturgeon9511 2 ай бұрын

His and perhaps the Beatles greatest song

@aaronreeves8376 2 ай бұрын

It’s not a waltz…….great tune!

@maetzchenmusik 2 ай бұрын

It's in 4/4 bar. I wonder what would happen if the reporter mistook an offside for an accidental handball in soccer. In music, such sloppiness is easier to get away with because not many people in the audience know about it. Well…

@davidjones-owen8194 2 ай бұрын

Yeah - I was surprised by that! I had to check the pulse. :) Perhaps the confusion arose because it does king of stress the first three beats of the four with the major stress on the first beat...so it does have a bit of a waltz feel to it - maybe call it a "false waltz"!

@maetzchenmusik 2 ай бұрын

@@davidjones-owen8194 You shouldn't check the pulse of the piece so much as the constantly recurring stress ratios, because these inevitably make the time signature clear. Bass note on one and chords on two, three and four. Metronome (= denominator of the time signature) and accentuations that are thrown over the metronomic beats as a costume, so to speak (= numerator of the time signature): it's that simple. Assumptions à la false waltzes only lead you astray. Not only do regularly recurring larger volumes result in (dynamic) accents and can therefore mark the one in the bar, contrasts in terms of tone quantities (single tone versus chord strike) and different registers (bass versus middle register) also produce accents or reinforce them.

@grouchomarxist666 2 ай бұрын

For No One is in 2/2 time. Not a waltz. If you're going to draft off the Beatles' popularity, you'll need to elevate your accuracy.

@GroveEndRoad 2 ай бұрын

2/2

@criburgir 2 ай бұрын

@@GroveEndRoad pretty much the same

@grouchomarxist666 2 ай бұрын

@@GroveEndRoad I stand corrected. Thank you.

@sheaamalloy 17 күн бұрын

@@grouchomarxist666lol

@globalmonkey007 2 ай бұрын

0:22 - For No One is NOT a waltz. A waltz is 3/4 time. For No One is in 4/4 time.

@piotrq7150 2 ай бұрын

Top 10 McCartney, just wow

@Moonshine54321 10 күн бұрын

No, the song is not a waltz… it’s in 4/4 time, not 3/4. A masterpiece and one of my very favorite Beatles tunes. Paul’s voice is wonderful.

@shirleyrodgers8908 2 ай бұрын

The Beatles are surpreme

@Stieglitz. 2 ай бұрын

Great vid, can you share the credit for the interview you used for the part where George Paul and ringo talked together, around the 7th minute

@6040nick 2 ай бұрын

I believe it was taped in 1995 for the Anthology video..

@FortYeah 2 ай бұрын

Great account, thanks. But even tough For No One sounds like a waltz, it is in 4/4. Another Macca trick. And gem.

@GroveEndRoad 2 ай бұрын

It's in 2/2

@atroyz 2 ай бұрын

Yeah it has a waltz feel but once I learned to play it I quickly realized it’s 2/2. Paul didn’t compose that many Beatles songs with odd time signatures. A few, for sure, but not as many as John or George.

@thescarletandgrey2505 2 ай бұрын

I think the word here, re FNO is “somber”…. knowing on the one hand she seems the perfect answer to your dreams. Then one day, as you observe her going through her morning routine, you see it, her need for you no longer exists. She may decide to stick around for a bit, but not for long. That is a most emptying feeling…… somber

@musicryandave 2 ай бұрын

It's not a waltz. But still, love the video on this great song.

@PGChemistry-s2y 2 ай бұрын

My fav part is John's impersonation of George Martin's posh accent 😅

@strikerorwell9232 2 ай бұрын

@WilliamChristian-lx2pb 2 ай бұрын

Maybe for one genius. But this band had two. Lightning struck. It'll happen again, but probably not in our lifetimes.

@Powerlines_ 2 ай бұрын

The beat breakup song ever

@q-tuber7034 7 күн бұрын

So which was it? Did Civil make up his own french horn solo, or was he playing a part written for him? Was it in the middle register, or was it “too high” for the instrument? Emerick seems to be describing something entirely different than Civil.

@mandolinic 24 күн бұрын

Minor point at 0:18. For No One is elegant, but not a waltz. A waltz is in 3/4 time; FNO is in 4/4 time.

@jlouis4407 2 ай бұрын

McCartney’s finest song, period

@devinjerry2780 2 ай бұрын

I think Paul was a genius.. it’s hard to have 2 geniuses in a band but Lennon was linguistically and McCartney was instrumentally and with melody. The Beatles were different bc of this. Beatles fans need to appreciate John more

@chriswest8389 2 ай бұрын

Have to comment. Fave Beat song. Semi fascinated by the fact it’s in 4/4 but has a 3/4 waltz time elements to it. Think it’s cos the left hand plays 1quater note, followed by 3 straight in the right.

@GroveEndRoad 2 ай бұрын

2/2

@chriswest8389 2 ай бұрын

@@GroveEndRoad Is that 2/2 time or do you mean it’s 2 left two right? Not sure who’s right here. Still has a waltz feel to it.

@lt.reubenrozeyt5716 2 ай бұрын

For no One the best Paul McCartney song.

@Pat-nl4wk 2 ай бұрын

The horn is in “G” which is next to impossible. Alan was paid £50 for the session.

@JeffreyStock 2 ай бұрын

Love your vids, but it's not a waltz.

@CosmicMapping 2 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure it quite literally is

@JeffreyStock 2 ай бұрын

@@CosmicMapping what can anyone say? Do you know what time signature a waltz uses? Have you heard of 3/4 time? It’s not really a question to be debated. It’s not a waltz. I’m curious what makes you think it is.

@CosmicMapping 19 күн бұрын

@@JeffreyStock Only in Jazz is 3/4 a prerequisite for a waltz, and even then there’s pleny of jazz waltzs that drift out of 3/4 or are entirely composed in a different signature.

@JeffreyStock 19 күн бұрын

@@CosmicMapping I literally can't tell if you're joking.

@ericmcgrath9472 2 ай бұрын

I'm 5😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮0 and a Beatles expert so we all have an opinion. Here's mine. Once Brian Epstein overdosed and they had stopped touring since lastly candlestick Park 8/29/66, John stupidly forced Yoko upon them after disrespecting his wife Cynthia and son Julian.. Even Ringo said that she was a bad influence then and it's amazing that they recorded Abbey road

@BrianRoberson-k7g 2 ай бұрын

Ending touring is what actually killed that group.

@youknowwho- 2 ай бұрын

Waltz? Those are in 3/4, mate. This song's in 4/4 or 2/4. If you can't get even a basic fact like this right, why would I care what else you have to say about the song? (Answer: I wouldn't.)

@danamcc221 2 ай бұрын

Hello! For No One isn't a waltz - it' clearly in 4/4. Please check your facts when you're talking about music!

@SkYla416 23 күн бұрын

Why the fuck can’t I listen to this song anymore in America it says it’s banned

@herbsierra 2 ай бұрын

this song’s ending is called an imperfect terminal cadence … the note sequence does not resolve …

@smolderingtitan 2 ай бұрын

It's not a waltz. It's 4/4 with the accent only on the 1st beat.

@daledavidson8242 2 ай бұрын

Only natural that a young man who is attracting beautiful women world wide to sew his wild oats. Yet he expected his young girlfriend to wait at their home to be at beck and call when he returned. Jane was an actress, looking to tour in her own right, though wanting an exclusive relationship. This constant conflict was grist for some of the best of the many Jane songs that he wrote. Meanwhile it was kind of a joke about the many pros brought in to solo on Paul’s songs who would hit it on the first take, which ended up being used, and yet told to remain for repeated recordings.