John Lennon hated Beatles' 'throwaway' song - it was George Harrison's favourite
The Beatles wrote countless songs throughout their decade-long career - but not every one of them was a hit. There were a number of songs the band never released as singles, and - as the songwriters - the Fab Four were their own biggest critics. As a result, John Lennon confessed he hated a song from their sixth album, Rubber Soul, which hit store shelves in 1965.
Lennon opened up about his music in the book "All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono", which involved snippets of interviews from 1980, the year he was murdered.
In the chat, he spoke about the song Run For Your Life. The track is a jaunty blues track that, Lennon later confessed, was inspired by a song performed by Elvis Presley.
Lennon revealed: "Yeah, it has a line from an old Presley song: ‘I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man’ is a line from an old blues song that Presley did once." The song in question was the King of Rock and Roll's 1955 song Baby, Let's Play House.
Source: Callum Crumlish/express.co.uk
