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“I'm Looking Through You” by The Beatles
From the album Rubber Soul (1965)
“I'm Looking Through You” by The Beatles appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2001 and 2004. It was first released in 1965 on the album Rubber Soul. Its best result is #723 on the KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #8,008 indie & aaa song of all time.
Paul McCartney wrote "I'm Looking Through You" for Rubber Soul, the Beatles' December 1965 album, under the Lennon–McCartney credit, and it's a love song gone sour. He aimed it at Jane Asher, the English actress who was his girlfriend through most of the decade, and at her refusal to shelve her stage career for his sake; the words chart his own shifting moods too.
McCartney sings lead, double-tracked until the outro, and plays electric bass and electric guitar, while John Lennon strums acoustic and joins in harmony on each verse's third phrase. George Harrison adds electric guitar and tambourine, Ringo Starr drums and plays Hammond organ, and there are hand claps. When the doubling drops away at the end, Alan W. Pollack heard a late rush of intimacy. George Martin produced, and the band recorded three versions across October and November 1965.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1913 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2002 | 723 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2004 | 865 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
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