The Beatles - There's A Place
The Beatles - There's A Place
The Beatles - There's A Place 1963
"There's a Place" is a song composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and was first released as a track on The Beatles' UK debut LP, Please Please Me. Lennon and McCartney share the main vocal with George Harrison singing back-up vocal.
The title was inspired by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's "Somewhere" from West Side Story, which contained the line: "somewhere there's a place for us". McCartney owned the album of the soundtrack at the time of writing "There's a Place" and acknowledges its influence.[1] The "place" in question was "the mind", making its subject matter slightly more cerebral than Britain's kissing and cuddling songs and America's surf music from that period.[2] Lennon is quoted as saying: "'There's a Place' was my attempt at a sort of Motown, black thing."[2] It says the usual Lennon things: 'In my mind there's no sorrow...' It's all in your mind."
Composed at McCartney's Forthlin Roa
