For No One

he's a beauty and he has I think his voice I've said this before on this podcast he has the most angelic like beautiful voice that's

beautiful yeah if you go back and listen to I Will or For No One or one's like just beautiful yeah yeah

Yeah.

Michael, you're a British pick.

going from our list so far, I'll be quite surprised if they are the same, but they could be.

So this one is... maybe my earliest memory of the Beatles, and it wasn't hearing the Beatles playing it, it was hearing my oldest brother Bruce playing it on the piano, because he had the Beatles' complete piano book, and I think I must have been about five or six, and he played this song, and the song is For No One.

And the line, a love that should have lasted years, for some reason, my five-year-old or six-year-old self said, was so struck by the pathos or the sadness of that notion that I actually, although I was taking piano lessons at the time and hating them, I even made the effort to sit down and try and pick out the melody on the piano myself.

And then when I finally, because obviously recorded music was not there at the touch of a button in those days, it was quite a long time.

You know, uh, I can feel, uh, people getting upset by this already, but like, I think side one is perfect, but I, I think side two is a bit of a washout.

Um, with the obvious exceptions of For No One, and Tomorrow Never Knows, in my view.

I think Tomorrow Never Knows I think is a really important track.

Um-

Uh, it's amazing how fast things were moving, moving culturally at this point, you know.

And The Beatles were kind of in the epicenter of it all, you know, and that track really, uh, uh, displayed, puts that on display.

Um, actually I think if you com- sort of compare For No One and Tomorrow Never Knows- You know, we contrast them.

You get a fairly good idea of what The Beatles were all about really.

Yeah.

Then I start off side two with a McCartney number from Revolver for no one.

Interesting.

Just love that song.

on.

I will hold my comments for that till I get to my 12.

But yeah, For No One's always been a big track of mine.

Now, I've realized I've done this, but Revolver does feature heavily for me, but I've gone straight into then to balance out that McCartney into a little Lennon Rocky number and your bird can sing.

Yeah.

Yesterday, She's Leaving Home, For No One, and then there's Penny Lane, Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, Get Back, and Good Day Sunshine.

What more could you ask for?

Wow.