Beatle Lennon did not like the sound of his voice and loved to double-track his records. He would often put reverbs or echoes or ask the band's producer, George Martin, to cover the sound of his voice: "Can't you smother it with tomato ketchup or something?"
Dining with his former producer, George Martin, one night years after the band had split up, Lennon revealed that he'd like to re-record every Beatles song. Completely amazed, Martin asked him, "Even 'Strawberry Fields'?" "Especially 'Strawberry Fields,'" answered Lennon.
Lennon thought the Bobby Scott/Rick Marlow song was too old-fashioned and spitefully called it “A Waste of Money.”
“That’s the one song I really hate of mine,” he told Hit Parader in 1972. “Terrible lyric.”
“That’s me trying a rewrite of ‘This Boy’ but it didn’t work,” Lennon said of this song
John dismissed this one as “just sort of a throwaway song.”
John snidely referred to this one as “granny music.” When asked about the authorship of the song, he said it was “Paul’s, completely. I would never dream of writing a song like that.”
John saw this as an example of the sort of fictitious, message-free song he disliked. “I’m not interested in writing about people like that,” he said, dismissing the tune. “I like to write about me, because I know me.”
John never liked this one, and would eventually call it “a piece of garbage.”
John was furious that this song was chosen to be an A-side over his more experimental “I Am the Walrus.” “It wasn’t a great piece,” he said of the McCartney tune. “The best bit was the end, which we all ad-libbed in the studio, where I played piano.”
“Good piano lick, but the song never really went anywhere,” he said. “Maybe I helped [Paul] with some of the lyrics, but I’m not proud of them either way.”
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John despised this song, and resented that the band spent more time on it in the studio than anything else on the White Album.
Both John and George hated this one, and saw it as an example of Paul writing songs that were not very personal.
He was very embarrassed by this one, especially all the cover versions of it that came along. “I saw Bob Hope doing it once on the telly years ago,” he said in an interview. “I just thanked God it wasn’t one of mine.”
“I think Paul wanted a song like ‘Happy Birthday Baby,’ the old ’50s hit,” he said. “It was a piece of garbage.”
He disliked it so much he denied writing it in an interview. “Not me, a piece of rubbish.”
“That’s a piece of garbage I had around,” he said in 1980.
He described it as “a bit of crap that I wrote in India.”
“It was literally a nonsense song,” he said in 1980, going on to dismiss it as “another piece of garbage.”
“It has nothing to do with The Beatles,” he said in a 1980 interview with David Sheff. “It could’ve been Wings. I don’t know what [Paul’s] thinking when he writes ‘Let It Be.’”
