"Girl" By The Beatles Video Showcase

"Girl" is a song written by John Lennon, but as all releases written by either John Lennon or Paul McCartney, it is credited to Lennon/McCartney.

The song was first released in 1965 on The Beatles' album Rubber Soul, and was the last complete song recorded for it. The song's lyrics describe a girl the singer loves, but with misgivings: "She's the kind of girl who puts you down / When friends are there, you feel a fool."

Backing the bridges is a refrain sung by Lennon while McCartney and George Harrison repeatedly sing a syllable for vocal percussion ("tit-tit-tit-tit") as a joke. The deep breaths in the chorus were rumoured to have symbolised taking a long inhalation (drag) off of a marijuana joint. According to McCartney, he wrote the lines "Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure" and "That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure." But in a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon claimed this was his own early dig at the Catholic Church.

In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine on 5 December 1980, Lennon said his 1980 song "[Woman] reminds me of a Beatles track, but I wasn't trying to make it sound like that. I did it as I did 'Girl' many years ago. So this is the grown-up version of 'Girl.'" ("Woman" was the second single released from the Double Fantasy album, and the first Lennon single issued after his death on 8 December 1980.) In November 1977, Capitol Records scheduled the United States release of "Girl" backed with "You're Going to Lose That Girl" as a single (Capitol 4506) to accompany the release of Love Songs, a Beatles' compilation album that contains both of these songs. However, the single was canceled before it was issued.

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