771 The Beatles “In My Life” 1965

“Not only didn’t any of the Beatles have formal training, none could read a note. To stem the lack of communication, they developed a rapport with the eloquent [George] Martin that facilitated discussions about music free of theory-loaded jargon. ‘Give it some color here,’ they might suggest. ‘Make it punchier.’ On one number, ‘In My Life,’ which required an instrumental bridge between the verses, John’s instruction got whittled down to ‘play it like Bach.’ Exchanges like that galvanized Martin, who took up each of their abstract ideas as a challenge” (Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography, 2005). 

The Beatles “In My Life”