Talk:We Can Work It Out

POV
obvious and egregious POVBadgerpatrol 01:53, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Yupe. "(...) their masterpiece "A Day in the Life" (...)"

Even though i agree that 'A Day in the Life' is a masterpiece, it's major POV warning to describe it as a masterpiece on this site, right? I remove that word. MatteusH 09:48, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Did Yoko write this?
An "unreconstructed northern male chauvanist", and where does this come from? How has this been proven to be a fact. As a long time fan of the Beatles, one thing that I do know is that (and I have read this in interviews with Paul McCartney) sometimes he wrote lyrics to song that fit the melody. Not all of his songs corresponded with any kind of reality. What does Yellow Submarine say about Paul? Nothing. I don't think We Can Work It Out proves that he was knuckle-dragging womanizer in 1965. Swatson1978 20:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't like the language in that paragraph, either. Seems POV. Should be re-written -6/19/06

John's contribution
Whereas John takes credit for the middle eight, Paul's assessment is that he brought the song to John and they then wrote the middle eight together. There should be no dispute as to whether John contributed to this song, but can someone tell me why any view John Lennon brings forward is generally accepted as 'truth', while Paul's views are often regarded merely as apocryphal?192.153.194.200 17:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Time signature of bridge
Two references are made to the middle section of this song being in 3/4 "waltz time" (one in a quote by Lennon himself), but this is factually incorrect. The middle section is in 2/4 time, punctuated by a run of triplets at the end of each phrase, which is not the same as 3/4 time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AQuandary (talk • contribs) 15:45, 6 December 2015 (UTC) →Seconded. This is a sound (ba-dum-tish!) observation and is correct. Chimpa2 (talk) 01:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Collaboration
I think you'll find quite a few examples of John and Paul collaborating as much as they did on this song later on in their career. 'We Can Work It Out', Paul brought to John in a half-written stage, and they wrote the rest together. Many songs on 'Rubber Soul', 'Revolver' and 'Sgt. Pepper' share this quality.

It wasn't until 1968 that their close writing partnership sort of came to a halt.--84.208.240.143 (talk) 08:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I find the second paragraph of this article very odd and opinionated with it's reference to "good" collaborations. Chimpa2 (talk) 01:06, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

What filled the gap on the Billboard charts?
For the bottom links for what topped the chart before and after, only the successor to the second lead is given. What came between the #1 weeks? Halofan333 (talk) 02:47, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Line-up discrepancies
In the 2013 book, there is an absurd claim that Paul was on acoustic guitar and John was on bass, but it wouldn't be likely, because John, being right-handed, couldn't have feasibly played Paul's left-handed bass and he didn't even start filling in on bass until at least The White Album.

Graeme Thomson claimed in his book that George wasn't on the song at all, but Walter Everett says that he is present playing tambourine.

61.69.217.3 (talk) 12:26, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


 * It's well-known that Paul was capable of playing a normally stringed guitar or bass upside down (left-handed) which means any right-handed guitarist might have played such an instrument. Binksternet (talk) 15:54, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

That's not true, because it's not always easy for right-handed guitarists to play left-handed instruments and to my knowledge, the band didn't even own a right-handed bass at this stage while even Walter Everett believes that Paul and John were on bass and acoustic guitar respectively (oh of course John was on harmonium). 61.69.217.3 (talk) 21:27, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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