“Things We Said Today” by The Beatles

"Things We Said Today" is Paul McCartney's song, though it carries the Lennon-McCartney stamp, and it turned up in July 1964 on the flip of "A Hard Day's Night"; American fans found it on the album Something New. McCartney wrote it on a Virgin Islands holiday with Jane Asher, and it's a love song haunted by distance, a man already looking back on the moment he's still living in, which McCartney later called "future nostalgia".

It's a moody little thing, too, sliding between major and minor keys and borrowing chords from jazz and classical music rather than the pop playbook. McCartney sings lead and plays bass, John Lennon hammers acoustic guitar and piano, George Harrison adds electric guitar and harmony, and Ringo Starr drums and shakes a tambourine, with George Martin producing. Some critics swore it sounded more like Lennon's handiwork than McCartney's.

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