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“I Need You” is a Beatles song on the album Help!. It is the second George Harrison song the band released after two albums without any songwriting contribution from Harrison. The song was performed in their second film, Help!.

The song, simple in arrangement, was recorded on 15 and 16 February 1965. It is commonly thought to address Harrison’s relationship with Pattie Boyd, whom he had met in March 1964 while filming A Hard Day’s Night. (They married in January 1966.)

The recording’s distinctive lead guitar cadences, achieved by Harrison’s first recorded use of a volume pedal, are based on common guitar suspended chords in the key of A, forming the introduction and most of the verse of the song and giving a quasi-modal effect that is relieved in the verse by a line in the relative minor (with a simple backing harmony from Lennon and McCartney), the whole making a fourteen-bar ternary verse-structure. This, after a repeat, segues easily into a second, bridge melody that introduces a cowbell for contrast and is based on a simple IV-V-I chord progression that passes through the dominant key to resolve back on the verse. Many such aspects of the song are developed in Harrison’s song “If I Needed Someone” on the group’s next album, Rubber Soul.
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  • Help!
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  • Early Contemporary Album (disc 1)
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  • Love Songs
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  • Forever (disc 2)
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  • EbbaOzolins

    Thank you, George. [43]

    Saturday evening

  • McCoyMcFlyer

    Love you all the time George

    14 days ago

  • xtwntraphq

    George the Musical Magician !

    15 days ago

  • ByTheDroves

    I just can't go on anymoreeeeee

    18 days ago

  • paradrome

    <3

    24 days ago

  • Yogi65

    Thank you, George. [42]

    last month

  • Sksat

    Thank you, George. [41]

    March 2012

  • McCoyMcFlyer

    Thank you, George. [40]

    March 2012

  • carlarafaelapf

    linda : )

    February 2012

  • Taip

    so accurate

    December 2011

  • clauxd93

    You don't realize how much I need you. Love you all the time, never leave you. Please come on back to me. I'm lonely as can be. I need you.

    December 2011

  • ViniciusStilt

    Cute song.

    December 2011

  • Lowbacca

    Thank you, George. [39]

    October 2011

  • farmgirlblues

    Thank you, George.

    August 2011

  • Jason_Ramone

    so beautiful..

    June 2011

  • paul30798

    Love this song! By the way guys if any of u want a free iphone 4 check out this site FREEIPHONE4-METROLYRICS.INFO Actually works! Just got mine the other day haha

    May 2011

  • khareen17

    oh george

    April 2011

  • sco703

    Love this song. Fantastic.

    April 2011

  • beatles_1940

    george is really good

    February 2011

  • PabloFromPoland

    It's not the best but my favourite song by The Beatles ;)

    January 2011
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