Paul McCartney: George Martin always has something to do with it, but somethimes more than others. For instance, he wrote the end of "All you need is love" and got into trouble because the "In the mood" bit was copyrighted. We thought of all the great clichès because they're a great bit of random. It was a hurried session and we didn't mind giving him that to do - saying "There's the end, we want it to go on and on". Actually what he wrote was much more disjointed, so when we put all the bits together we said, "Could we have 'Greensleeves' right on top of that little Bach thing?" And on top of that we had the "In the Mood" bit.
George is quite a sage. Sometimes he works with us, sometimes against us; he's always looked after us. I don't think he does as much as some people think. He sometimes does all the arrangements and we just change them.
Paul McCartney (in 1967) - "We had been told
we'd be seen recording it by the whole world at the same time. So we had one message for the world-- Love. We need more love in the world."
Paul McCartney (in 1994) - "'All You Need Is Love' was John's song. I threw in a few ideas, as did other members of the group, but it was largely ad libs like singing 'She Loves You' or 'Greensleeves' or silly little things like that at the end, and we made those up on the spot."
