‘In My Life’ — The Beatles
If you ask John Lennon, this 1965 single from “Rubber Soul” would be on every list of the greatest songs ever written. It was dubbed “my first real, major piece of work” by the Beatles. “Up until then, it had all been glib and thrown away,” he added. The line “Some [friends] are dead, and some are living / In my life I’ve loved them all,” according to Shotton’s friend and eventual biographer Peter Shotton, was a tribute to both Shotton and Stuart Sutcliffe, who died in 1962.
‘In My Life’ — The Beatles
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