Beatles songs, In My Life

JOHN 1980: 'It was the first song I wrote that was consciously about my life.
(Sings) 'There are places I'll remember/ All my life though some have changed…' Before, we were just writing songs a la Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly – pop songs with no more thought to them than that.
The words were almost irrelevant.
'In My Life' started out as a bus journey from my house at 250 Menlove Avenue to town, mentioning every place I could remember.
I wrote it all down and it was ridiculous… it was the most boring sort of 'What I Did On My Holiday's Bus Trip' song and it wasn't working at all.
But then I laid back and these lyrics started coming to me about the places I remember.
Paul helped with the middle-eight.
It was, I think, my first real major piece of work.
Up till then it had all been sort of glib and throw-away.
And that was the first time I consciously put my literary part of myself into the lyric.'

PAUL 1984: 'I think I wrote the tune to that; that's the one we slightly dispute.
John either forgot or didn't think I wrote the tune.
I remember he had the words, like a poem… sort of about faces he remembered.
I recall going off for half an hour and sitting with a Mellotron he had, writing the tune… which was Miracles inspired, as I remember.
In fact, a lot of stuff was then.'