In My Life — The Beatles
Rated as one of the top rock songs of all time, this was John’s meditation on his childhood. Originally written with references to places he saw on a school bus ride, including Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane, it was reworked, with Paul McCartney, to be a more general take on the wild trip it had been thus far.
According to best friend and biographer Pete Shotton (one half of the trouble making duo Shennon and Lotton) the lines “Some [friends] are dead and some are living/In my life I’ve loved them all” referred to original Beatles bassist and art school Stuart Sutcliffe (who died in 1962) and to Shotton.
