How The Beatles Made "I Will" | The White Album Sessions

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  • Everything you need to know about "I Will" by The Beatles. |
    After the complexity of songs on Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, and beyond, Paul, the troubadour, decides to return to the Beatles' mid-'60s signature sound with "I Will," which sounds quite similar to what they were doing in "Help!" for example. Though this track has a very simple, laid-back sound, it took a whopping 67 takes to get it done, in true McCartney fashion, though many of the takes were false starts.
    🗣️ "I had the melody for quite a long time, but I didn't have lyrics to it," Paul said. "I remember sitting around with Donovan after our day of meditation, and I played him "I Will," and he liked it, and we were trying to write some words. We kicked around a few lyrics, something about the moon, but they weren't very satisfactory, and I thought the melody was better than the words, so I didn't use them. I kept searching for better words, and I wrote my own set in the end-very simple words. I think they're quite effective. It's still one of my favorite melodies that I've written."
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Комментарии • 60

  • @kimberleyplatt3914
    @kimberleyplatt3914 24 дня назад +23

    Beautiful song! One of my favorites!❤️🎵🌞

  • @CosmicMapping
    @CosmicMapping 20 дней назад +6

    I Will is genuinely one of my favorite songs of all time. Absolutely beautiful melody, heartbreaking lyrics, and production that supports the tone of the song brilliantly. It’s one of the only love songs about loving someone who doesn’t exist, and the pain and beauty in a love that isn’t even there to be unrequited.

  • @fbello18
    @fbello18 24 дня назад +16

    For sure is one of my favorites Paul’s song

  • @mogie1984
    @mogie1984 24 дня назад +17

    Love this song

  • @josephblue4135
    @josephblue4135 22 дня назад +4

    To think paul wrote & performed this song & "HELTER SKELTER" on the same album shows his incredible range!

  • @cmorales932
    @cmorales932 24 дня назад +8

    Bears a strong resemblance to “I’ll Follow the Sun”.

  • @GrouchoMarx-MaGeorge
    @GrouchoMarx-MaGeorge 24 дня назад +13

    It's a pretty tune 🎸 I enjoy.

  • @asmitax
    @asmitax 24 дня назад +5

    The lyrics are so simple yet so sweet and beautiful

  • @toddkurzbard
    @toddkurzbard 23 дня назад +2

    This is one of my favorites from this period. Just a simple (if short) love song. A shame it doesn't get the level of recognition it deserves.

  • @pallen49
    @pallen49 13 дней назад +1

    About ten years ago, I had an online love ( sadly we never made it to where we could meet in person ) that only lasted for a year and a half...I once, on the phone, sang to her 'I Will' ..At the end, her voice was shaking as if she was crying and said ' I love you'.. If only things could've worked out for her and I ...Sadly it never came to be.. In a way, to this day, I still do love her and always 'will'..

  • @meesterexit1969
    @meesterexit1969 6 дней назад +1

    Paul: I Will.
    Also Paul: Helter Skelter.
    It's the mark of a genius mind.

  • @M5guitar1
    @M5guitar1 24 дня назад +3

    A great song. I dig playing and singing this one. It's quite complex and unusual for sounding so simple, because it's not. The drummer in my band thought Beatles songs were simple, that is until he started learning guitar.

  • @pcsbeat
    @pcsbeat 24 дня назад +2

    A beauty…and catchy to boot!

  • @reddwood4971
    @reddwood4971 24 дня назад +1

    The only song that was recorded on my birthday (that I can recall) beautiful melody and although I didn’t rave over at first few listens it has since grown on me much more than many other Mac songs.

  • @stephenhosking7384
    @stephenhosking7384 24 дня назад +1

    He was (is) a master of the acoustic guitar!

  • @tomcox22
    @tomcox22 24 дня назад +2

    Original title was I Won’t. Then Paul was given inspirational speech from the Guru

  • @aminahmed2220
    @aminahmed2220 24 дня назад

    Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @mallorga1965
    @mallorga1965 24 дня назад +1

    I've always considered Step Inside Love as Paul's take on bossa nova.

  • @paulbear1
    @paulbear1 23 дня назад +1

    And not a word about Paul using his voice for a bass instead of playing his bass. Now who else would try such a thing. This was years before Bobby McFerrin! 😆

  • @user-te3jc3sl7r
    @user-te3jc3sl7r 6 дней назад +1

    ' I will' sounds so much like 'I'll follow the sun' from the Beatles for sale album. Still its a good song.

  • @hansvandermeulen5515
    @hansvandermeulen5515 24 дня назад +5

    John wrote Girl about the girl he was looking for and found i Yoko.
    It sounds like I Will was Paul's take on that kind of song, he found Linda.

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg 21 день назад

      Completely incorrect. Too bad.

    • @hansvandermeulen5515
      @hansvandermeulen5515 21 день назад +1

      @@FlipDahlenburg incorrect how?

    • @CosmicMapping
      @CosmicMapping 20 дней назад +1

      It’s one of the only love songs about loving someone that doesn’t even exist, and the pain and beauty that comes with a love that isn’t even there to be unrequited. I love it so much.

  • @areareare9953
    @areareare9953 24 дня назад +8

    "here sheee comesss agaaaain....and she used to be mine....my best friennnd's giiiiirrrlll frienddddddd"

    • @kerry9125
      @kerry9125 24 дня назад +3

      Right you are!
      Fabulous guitar work in that song, and Elliot Easton lifted that main riff from "I Will".

  • @ericbgordon1575
    @ericbgordon1575 24 дня назад

    I was thinking about this song earlier. It occurred to me that it and the two adjacent ones were the last ones in the first half of *the White Album.* It then occurred to me that those same three songs were the last ones on *Anthology 3,* only "I Will" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" were swapped.

  • @ellenbeckmann4293
    @ellenbeckmann4293 23 дня назад +1

    Like Kim, the Fav Song from Paul..🌹🕊✌❤love you 4ever and 4ever..🎼🎶🎤Elli

  • @michaeldunne338
    @michaeldunne338 24 дня назад

    Interesting that he got into the Bossa Nova sound with Tom Jobin (and Jao Gilberto?). Around that time Brasil 66 was doing a number of covers, including a particularly good one of Fool on the Hill.

  • @helendropinski3754
    @helendropinski3754 24 дня назад +2

    At 3:37 it shows Paul playing right handed guitar.

    • @Nerkin610
      @Nerkin610 24 дня назад +4

      It’s clearly mirrored

    • @LucyLennon20
      @LucyLennon20 24 дня назад +2

      Trick photography ... 📷 🤡

  • @user-no9lv3xk2w
    @user-no9lv3xk2w 22 дня назад

    Cierto es bonita canción. Yo pensé sería para alguna chica. Y no es así. Es la inspiración pura de Paul. Saludos. 😊❤❤

  • @SPRPhilly
    @SPRPhilly 24 дня назад

    I was born while they were recording this song.

  • @n2nh2o22
    @n2nh2o22 24 дня назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Cbcw76
    @Cbcw76 23 дня назад

    And a fantastic acoustic-lead in the end. It's hard for me to stomach WHY DON'T WE DO IT and WILD HONEY PIE when he can deliver plums like I WILL. Meanwhile, George's properly accusatory NOT GUILTY and SOUR MILK SEA are shoved aside... maybe George was right in that regard... it'd be a few more years before Paul and John was trade song-salvos on their solo albums.

  • @ArujKhan-sp6gi
    @ArujKhan-sp6gi 24 дня назад +4

    How about a video on all the unaccredited ghostwriters and musicians that played on Beatles albums? Probably not...

  • @rayrostad639
    @rayrostad639 23 дня назад

    "Effortlessly" ?? I don't think so - Years in the making / struggling to find words? (Definitely worth the wait though..)

  • @53puskas53
    @53puskas53 24 дня назад

    Doesn't necessarily mean John refused to cooperate on thé lyrics, but with Paul was unable to improve them.

  • @jimc4839
    @jimc4839 24 дня назад

    I bought a stuffed rabbit for my daughter years ago that can sit on a shelf and has a recording of a young girl singing this song. Don't remember where I got it, but will never part with it.

  • @ericbreithaupt8750
    @ericbreithaupt8750 24 дня назад

    That one, but Michelle is in my opinion better because of John & George in the background humming if you listen to it closely!

  • @405Robot
    @405Robot 24 дня назад

    ...and Ringo present...

  • @johncena31925
    @johncena31925 24 дня назад +1

    Definitely couldve been on rubber soul

  • @spaceengineer1452
    @spaceengineer1452 24 дня назад

    Paul sang bass part....

  • @iantepper
    @iantepper 24 дня назад

    There is no ADT on I will

  • @user-fu2mi1nd5l
    @user-fu2mi1nd5l 22 дня назад

    "I Will" He is tellin us he;s William, not Paul in this tune

  • @greenwich1754
    @greenwich1754 21 день назад

    I absolutely loathe these fake AI/computer generated "vocals" in a fake documentary style. Can't we get a legitimate person to tell this story??

    • @BeatlesBible1
      @BeatlesBible1  21 день назад +1

      This is _literally_ me narrating. What are you on about?

    • @greenwich1754
      @greenwich1754 20 дней назад

      @@BeatlesBible1 It sounds way to computer generated to me. Sorry if it isn't.

  • @digiswitch
    @digiswitch 24 дня назад +1

    paul, if you're reading this, take some more lsd, and make some good music again!

  • @theone456
    @theone456 24 дня назад

    John wrote this

    • @graniterhythm53
      @graniterhythm53 24 дня назад +1

      He did indeed, as a thank you to Paul for writing In My Life!

    • @theone456
      @theone456 24 дня назад

      @@graniterhythm53 haha, you wish. Paul fan boys take credit for everything

    • @elizabethfonseca922
      @elizabethfonseca922 23 дня назад +1

      ​@@theone456so do John's fans, kiddo.

    • @blankyd3360
      @blankyd3360 22 дня назад +1

      lol

  • @lazoolazoo3771
    @lazoolazoo3771 23 дня назад +2

    I love the Beatles and I love Paul McCartney, but this is truly one of his most ordinary songs. Basic ballad compared to other songs he has written. Sorry fans.