For No One by The Beatles
“this isn't the ENTIRE reason i got a french horn. honest. it's, er, trickier than i thought.”
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this isn't the ENTIRE reason i got a french horn. honest. it's, er, trickier than i thought.
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one of my 5 favorite love songs. (Bob dylan excluded, of course)
Actually just Paul with a bit of Ringo and some beautiful French horn from Alan Civil.
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Solo Paul McCartney around 1983-1984, I think. Enjoy!
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"I was in Switzerland on my first skiing holiday. I'd done a bit of skiing in Help! and quite liked it, so I went back and ended up in a little bathroom in a Swiss chalet writing For No One. I remember the descending bassline trick that it's based on, and I remember the character in the song - the girl putting on her make-up.
Occasionally we'd have an idea for some new kind of instrumentation, particularly for solos... On For No One 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 and said, 'How can we go about this?' And he said, 'Well, let me get the very finest."
Paul McCartney
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"The day breaks, your mind aches..."
