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6 February 1970, Jabberwocky, Syracuse, NY

"If I Needed Someone" is a song written by George Harrison. Versions by the Beatles and by the Hollies appeared simultaneously, both being released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1965. The Beatles' recording of the song first appeared in the UK on the 1965 album "Rubber Soul" and was later included in the 1966 North American release, "Yesterday And Today".

The song was heavily influenced by the music of the Byrds, and like most of the songs on "Rubber Soul", utilizes a folk rock structure. In a 2004 radio interview with the BBC in London, Roger McGuinn confirmed that Harrison had sent a tape recording of the song to him in Los Angeles before it was released on record. Harrison did this to show McGuinn that the guitar riff he had used in "If I Needed Someone" was based on McGuinn's own riff in "The Bells Of Rhymney." "George was very open about it," said McGuinn, who was then going by his given name, Jim. "He sent [the record] to us in advance and said, 'This is for Jim' — because of that lick."

"If I Needed Someone" was the only Harrison composition played during any of the Beatles' tours; otherwise Harrison sang only covers onstage. Hence, it is the first and only song written by Harrison performed by him in concert until the group disbanded in 1970. "If I Needed Someone" is one of only two tracks from "Rubber Soul" that the Beatles performed live (the other was "Nowhere Man"). It was included on the Beatles final UK tour in December 1965, the 1966 NME Poll-Winners All-Star Concert, and on the 1966 Summer World Tour, including the Beatles' very last concert, in Candlestick Park on 29 August 1966. The 1982 documentary The Compleat Beatles used a clip from the Beatles' haggard performance of the song on stage in Tokyo as an illustration of band's growing weariness with touring.

Lyrics:

If I needed someone to love

You're the one that I'd be thinking of

If I needed someone

If I had some more time to spend

Then I guess I'd be with you my friend

If I needed someone

Had you come some other day

It might not have been like this

But you see now I'm too much in love

Scrawl your number on my wall

And maybe you will get a call from me

If I needed someone

Now had it been some other day

It might not have been like this

But you see now I'm too much in love

Scrawl your number on my wall

And maybe you will get a call from me

If I needed someone

Ah, ah

If I needed someone