Here, There and Everywhere

"Here, There and Everywhere"
Song by The Beatles from the album Revolver
Released	5 August 1966
Recorded	14 June 1966, EMI Studios
Genre	Soft rock, pop
Length	2:25
Label	Parlophone
Writer	Lennon–McCartney
Producer	George Martin
Revolver track listing
14 tracks Side one "Taxman" "Eleanor Rigby" "I'm Only Sleeping" "Love You To" "Here, There and Everywhere" "Yellow Submarine" "She Said She Said" Side two "Good Day Sunshine" "And Your Bird Can Sing" "For No One" "Doctor Robert" "I Want to Tell You" "Got to Get You into My Life" "Tomorrow Never Knows"

"Here, There and Everywhere" is a song written primarily by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), recorded for The Beatles 1966 album Revolver. In his biography Many Years From Now, McCartney said the song is one of his favourites. Beatles' producer George Martin has also mentioned it as one of his favourite McCartney songs. John Lennon reportedly told McCartney it was "The best tune on the album" and said in his 1980 Playboy interview it was "one of my favourite songs of the Beatles." It was ranked the 4th greatest song of all time by Mojo in 2000.

Musical Structure

The verse is based on an ascending major chord sequence, while the middle eight, which modulates to the tonic minor, creates a telling contrast. The introduction beginning "To lead a better life" opens in the key of G and involves a I-iii-♭III-ii-V7 chord progression. The ♭III (B♭ chord) on "I need my love to be here" (arpeggiated in the melody line) is a dissonant substitute for the more predictable VI (E7) that would normally lead to the ii (Am) chord. The verse opens strongly anchored on "Here" in the key of G (with simultaneous I (G chord) and melody G note) and moves equally predictably to a I-ii-iii-IV chord shift (G-Am-Bm-C) through "making each day of the year". This repeats on "Changing my life with a wave"; but immediately after (in bar 5) the song indeed changes on "of her hand". It goes down six semitones from the IV (C chord) to a ii (F#m) [adding a non-G scale C#] then a V7 (B7) chord [adding a non-G scale D#] which briefly modulates towards a new tonic Em. The harmonic fascination with the bridge segment beginning "I want her everywhere" is that at that point the key centre does go "everywhere". It shifts via an F7 chord (a ♭VII in the old G key and a V7 in the new B♭ key) to a I-vi-ii (B♭-Gm-Cm) chord progression in B♭ key. It then shifts again via a D7 chord (a III7 in the old B♭ key and a V7 in the new Gm key) to Gm key where we go through a i-iv (Gm-Cm chord) progression. Finally the pivot of D7 takes us back to the G major tonic and reinforcing G melody note of "Everywhere."

Recording

The song is noted for its bitter-sweet melody, layered backing vocals and utilising a 'clever harmonic scheme' underpinning the chordal structure. McCartney mentioned in the 1989 radio series McCartney on McCartney that the much-praised vocals were meant to have a "Beach Boys" sound. He has said he was trying to sing it in the style of Marianne Faithfull. His vocals are multi-tracked.

Personnel

• Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocal, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, finger snaps
• John Lennon – backing vocal, finger snaps
• George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar, finger snaps
• Ringo Starr – drums, finger snaps
• George Martin – producer
• Geoff Emerick – engineer

Personnel per Ian MacDonald

Cover versions

Noted performers who have covered "Here, There and Everywhere" include Beegie Adair, Clay Aiken, David Benoit, George Benson, Peter Breinholt, Petula Clark, Perry Como, Count Basie Orchestra, John Denver, Céline Dion (for a George Martin/Beatles tribute album), Episode Six, Jose Feliciano (instrumental), Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders (instrumental), Bobbie Gentry, Stéphane Grappelli, Ofra Harnoy, Emmylou Harris, The Flying Pickets, Jay and the Americans, The Lettermen, Locksley, Kenny Loggins (on Kenny Loggins Alive), Claudine Longet, John McDermott, Carmen McRae, Olivia Ong, Maaya Sakamoto, George Shearing, Sissel, Göran Söllscher, Marina Verenikina, and Andy Williams.

Bruce Welch of The Shadows claimed in his autobiography that McCartney offered the tune to Shadow's lead guitarist Hank Marvin prior to the Beatles' recording. Marvin eventually released an instrumental version of the song on his 2007 album Guitar Man.

Cultural references

In the TV series Friends, this song is played on steel drums when Phoebe Buffay walks down the aisle during her wedding. It was the second time a song written by McCartney was used in a wedding sequence in the series; the first being "My Love" when Chandler and Monica married.

Geoff Emerick, who engineered many of the Beatles' recordings, used the song title in the title of his own 2006 memoir, Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles.

Gary Sparrow sings this song on the piano in an episode of Goodnight Sweetheart.

References

• "Here, There, and Everywhere". Cover Together. 2009. http://covertogether.com/song/here-there-and-everywhere. Retrieved 10 October 2009. 
• MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3. 
• Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6. 
• Pollack, Alan W. (1994). "'Notes on "Here, There, And Everywhere"". 
• Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4. 
• Welch, Bruce (1989). A Life In The Shadows. Viking Books. 
• Moorefield, Virgil (2005). The producer as composer: shaping the sounds of popular music. MIT Press. p. 35. ISBN 0262134578. 

External links

• Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Here There and Everywhere"