IF I NEEDED SOMEONE

This song was written by George Harrison. Versions by The Beatles and by The Hollies appeared simultaneously, both being released in the UK on 3 December 1965. The Hollies version appeared on a single. The Beatles recording of the song first appeared in the UK on the 1965 album Rubber Soul and was later included in the 1966 U.S. release "Yesterday and Today".

The Beatles version was recorded on 16 October and 18 October 1965, the basic track being recorded right after sessions for "Day Tripper".

The song was heavily influenced by the music of The Byrds. In a 2004 radio interview with the BBC in London, Roger McGuinn confirmed that Harrison had sent a tape recording of the song to him in Los Angeles before it was released on record. Harrison did this to show McGuinn that the guitar riff he had used in "If I Needed Someone" was based on McGuinn's own riff in "The Bells of Rhymney." The song's introduction and coda are also very similar to those of The Byrds' song. Appropriately, The Byrds' own use of electric 12-string guitar was influenced by George Harrison's use of the instrument in the film A Hard Day's Night.


"If I Needed Someone" was the only Harrison composition played during any of the Beatles' tours; The Quiet Beatle otherwise only sang covers onstage. "If I Needed Someone" is included in the Beatles' Tokyo concerts in July 1966; the documentary The Compleat Beatles used a clip from the Beatles' haggard performance of the song on stage in Tokyo as illustration of how the band was growing tired of touring. The song was also performed on the Beatles' very last concert in Candlestick Park on 29 August 1966. It is suspected, but not confirmed, that "If I Needed Someone" was performed at every Beatles concert in 1966.


The short story presents a drunk man that has a story to tell. His audience, as the story advances, starts to feel horrified.


Live in Japan 19666: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tq3d8K5KjM  (en vivo en Japon 1966)


George Live in Japan 1991: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ak7hFxY0_M  (en vivo en Japon 1991)


Esta canción fue escrita por George Harrison. Versiones por The Beatles y por The Hollies fueron lanzadas de manera simultánea en el Reino Unido el 3 de diciembre de 1965. La versión de The Hollies apareció en un single.
Los Beatles grabaron esta canción los días 16 y 18 de octubre de 1965, quedando grabada en la cinta justo después de las sesiones de Day Tripper.


Esta canción tiene una gran influencia del grupo The Byrds. En una entrevista radial del año 2004 con la BBC de Londres, Roger McGuinn confirmó que Harrison le había enviado la cinta con la grabación a Los Angeles antes de que el disco saliera a la venta. Harrison hizo esto para mostrarle a McGuinn que la guitarra que había utilizado en "If I Needed Someone" estaba basada en el riff que McGuinn's utilizó en "The Bells of Rhymney."

Esta ha sido la única canción de Harrison que los Beatles tocaron durante sus giras. Estuvo incluida en el concierto dado por los Beatles en 1966 en Tokio y en el video se ve el desgano que tenían a la hora de tocar en vivo, fruto del cansancio que pesaba sobre ellos.  


El cuento nos presenta a un ebrio en un bar que tiene una historia que contar. El oyente, a medida que escucha la historia, comienza a sentirse horrorizado.


THE LYRICS /LA LETRA


If I needed someone to love
You're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone


If I had some more time to spend
That I guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone
Had you come some other day
Then it might not have been like this
But you see now I'm too much in love


Carve your number on my wall
And maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone
Ah, ah, ah, ah


If I had some more time to spend
That I guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone
Had you come some other day
Then it might not have been like this
But you see now I'm too much in love


Carve your number on my wall
And maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone
Ah, ah