The British Library this week added handwritten lyrics of Beatles‘ classics Strawberry Fields Forever, She Said She Said and In My Life to their collection.
Although these 3 songs are legally credited to Lennon and band mate Paul McCartney, the lyrics are usually associated with Lennon. The manuscripts and a number of Lennon’s letters were donated to the library by Hunter Davies, a Beatles biographer with longtime connections to the Fab Four.
“The British Library is the perfect home for it,” he said of his unmatched Beatles collection.
The library already had some rare Beatles material on display, including some scrawled partial lyrics to earlier songs written on hotel stationery during the band’s tours. The new material, however, catches the band near the height of its creative powers, with Lennon’s haunting lyrics often offset by McCartney‘s sunnier take on life. Read the remainder of this entry »
