The Beatles - No Reply
The Beatles - No Reply
The Beatles - No Reply (Copyright 1965 EMI Records)
"No Reply" is a song by the Beatles from the UK album Beatles for Sale and the US album Beatles '65. It was written mainly by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney.
he song is about a young man who is unable to contact his possibly unfaithful girlfriend, even though he sees her through her windows.
According to Lennon in 1972, the Beatles' music publisher Dick James was quite pleased with "No Reply":
" I remember Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, 'You're getting better now — that was a complete story.' Apparently, before that, he thought my songs wandered off. "
Reviewer David Rowley found its lyrics to "read like a picture story from a girl's comic," and to depict the picture "of walking down a street and seeing a girl silhouetted in a window, not answering the telephone."
In his book, "Revolution in the Head", Ian Macdonald r
