{"id":6931,"date":"2023-11-10T11:17:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:17:29","slug":"for-no-one-beatles-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6931","title":{"rendered":"For No One &#8211; Beatles Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dave Overland on vocals.  Produced at Baselines Designs Studio in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/For_No_One_2023.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Snap3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6934\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0727728983688833;width:338px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Snap3.png 769w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Snap3-640x595.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>For No One<\/strong>&#8221; is a song by the English&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock<\/a>&nbsp;band&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Beatles<\/a>&nbsp;from their 1966 album&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revolver_(Beatles_album)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolver<\/a><\/em>. It was written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_McCartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul McCartney<\/a>, and credited to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lennon%E2%80%93McCartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lennon\u2013McCartney<\/a>. An early example of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroque_pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">baroque pop<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;drawing on both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroque_music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">baroque music<\/a>&nbsp;and nineteenth-century&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art song<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-:0-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;it describes the end of a romantic relationship. Mostly performed by the composer, the track is distinguished by its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_horn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French horn<\/a>&nbsp;line performed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Civil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Civil<\/a>, played first as a solo and then as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Counterpoint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterpoint<\/a>&nbsp;in the final verse. It was considered one of McCartney&#8217;s most mature compositions to date on its release.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-RS_Sheffield-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing and recording<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>McCartney recalls writing &#8220;For No One&#8221; in the bathroom of a ski resort in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss_Alps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Alps<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000207-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;while on holiday with his then girlfriend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Asher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Asher<\/a>; &#8220;I suspect it was about another argument,&#8221; he later recalled.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiles1997289-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[7]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The lyrics end enigmatically with the line &#8220;A love that should have lasted years&#8221;. The song&#8217;s working title was &#8220;Why Did It Die?&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDowlding1989142-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[8]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The composition is built on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chord_progression#Harmonizing_the_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">descending scale progression<\/a>&nbsp;in B major with a refrain that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modulation_(music)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">modulates<\/a>&nbsp;to C-sharp minor.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-:0-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song was recorded on 9, 16 and 19 May 1966. McCartney sang and played&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clavichord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clavichord<\/a>&nbsp;(rented from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Martin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Martin<\/a>&#8216;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AIR_Studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIR<\/a>&nbsp;company), piano and bass guitar, while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ringo_Starr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ringo Starr<\/a>&nbsp;played drums, tambourine and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maracas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maracas<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[10]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Neither&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lennon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Lennon<\/a>&nbsp;nor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Harrison<\/a>&nbsp;contributed to the recording.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewisohn198878%E2%80%9379-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_horn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French horn<\/a>&nbsp;solo was by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Civil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Civil<\/a>, a British horn player described by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recording_engineer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording engineer<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoff_Emerick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoff Emerick<\/a>&nbsp;as the &#8220;best horn player in London&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEmerickMassey2006128%E2%80%93129-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[12]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;During the session, McCartney pushed Civil to play a note that was beyond the usual range of the instrument. According to Emerick, the result was the &#8220;performance of his life&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEmerickMassey2006128%E2%80%93129-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[12]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Civil said that the song was &#8220;recorded in rather bad musical style, in that it was &#8216;in the cracks&#8217; [not in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concert_pitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concert pitch<\/a>], neither B-flat nor B-major. This posed a certain difficulty in tuning my instrument.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewisohn198879-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[13]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Civil is one of the few session musicians to receive credit on a Beatles album.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reception<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In her contemporaneous review of&nbsp;<em>Revolver<\/em>, for&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evening_Standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Evening Standard<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maureen_Cleave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maureen Cleave<\/a>&nbsp;highlighted &#8220;For No One&#8221; among McCartney&#8217;s contributions and deemed it &#8220;as moving as &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yesterday_(Beatles_song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yesterday<\/a>&#8216;&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Ward of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AllMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AllMusic<\/a>&nbsp;describes &#8220;For No One&#8221; as &#8220;one of Paul McCartney&#8217;s great ballads with the Beatles&#8221;, adding that it is &#8220;a simply beautiful song, full of idiosyncratic McCartney touches yet undeniably inspired&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-AllMusic_review-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[16]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Ward praises McCartney&#8217;s vocal performance and calls the song&#8217;s melody &#8220;one of the most inspired of the singer&#8217;s whole career&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-AllMusic_review-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[16]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Ward also admires the bass line and French horn solo, and concludes his review by calling the song &#8220;one of the most delicate and fine ballads of the Beatles&#8217; entire canon&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-AllMusic_review-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rob_Sheffield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob Sheffield<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rolling_Stone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;writes that McCartney&#8217;s songs on&nbsp;<em>Revolver<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;[had] a new caustic realism&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-RS_Sheffield-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;He calls &#8220;For No One&#8221; the &#8220;ultimate &#8216;you stay home, she goes out&#8217; break-up song&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-RS_Sheffield-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Lennon called the song &#8220;one of [his] favourites of [McCartney&#8217;s]&#8221; and &#8220;a nice piece of work.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Beatles2000209-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elvis_Costello\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis Costello<\/a>&nbsp;named it his favourite Beatles song, stating in an interview,&nbsp;&#8220;&#8216;For No One&#8217; is everything that&#8217;s great about Paul McCartney in one song &#8230; It&#8217;s a really beautiful melody. He&#8217;s like a fantastic movie actor who doesn&#8217;t do anything. He doesn&#8217;t over-dramatize.&#8221; Costello went on to call it McCartney&#8217;s best lyric and lauded the song&#8217;s arrangement, concluding, &#8220;It&#8217;s about as perfect a record as you could make.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[18]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personnel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_MacDonald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian MacDonald<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald2007205%E2%80%93206-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[19]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;except where noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Beatles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_McCartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul McCartney<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 vocals, bass, piano,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clavichord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clavichord<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ringo_Starr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ringo Starr<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 drums, tambourine,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maraca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maracas<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_No_One#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuesdonMargotin2013342-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[20]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional musician<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Civil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Civil<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_horn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French horn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Overland on vocals. Produced at Baselines Designs Studio in Boston. &#8220;For No One&#8221; is a song by the English&nbsp;rock&nbsp;band&nbsp;the Beatles&nbsp;from their 1966 album&nbsp;Revolver. It was written by&nbsp;Paul McCartney, and credited to&nbsp;Lennon\u2013McCartney. An early example of&nbsp;baroque pop[1][2][3]&nbsp;drawing on both&nbsp;baroque music&nbsp;and nineteenth-century&nbsp;art song,[4]&nbsp;it describes the end of a romantic relationship. Mostly performed by the composer, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}