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** Another version of the story behind Yesterday has Paul playing it on the piano in Alma Cogan's flat in Kensington. He was sure it was an existing tune but couldn't recall where it came from. He may have been thinking of Answer Me, a huge hit for both Frankie Laine and David Whitfield in the 1950s. There are certainly some similarities between the two songs. Answer Me contains the lines

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** Another version of the story behind Yesterday "Yesterday" has Paul playing it on the piano in Alma Cogan's flat in Kensington. He was sure it was an existing tune but couldn't recall where it came from. He may have been thinking of Answer Me, a huge hit for both Frankie Laine and David Whitfield in the 1950s. There are certainly some similarities between the two songs. Answer Me contains the lines
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---> She was mine yesterday
---> I believed that love was here to stay
---> Won't you tell me where I've gone astray
---> Please answer me O Lord
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* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Buck Owens and Larry Williams, respectively.

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* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Buck Owens and Larry Williams, respectively. These would be the last covers the Beatles ever recorded.
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--> ''HELP!''
--> ''I need somebody''
--> ''HELP!''
--> ''Not just anybody''
--> ''HELP!''
--> ''You know I need someone''
--> ''H-EEEELP!''


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* CultSoundtrack: To the movie of the same name.

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''Help!'' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.

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''Help!'' '''''Help!''''' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.



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* AlbumTitleDrop: From the first line...
--> ''HELP!''



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* SubduedSection: "Help!" has this at the end, when Lennon repeats the first verse.
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'''''Help!''''' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.

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'''''Help!''''' ''Help!'' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.


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* BreakUpSong: "Yesterday" and "Ticket To Ride".

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* BreakUpSong: "Yesterday" ("Why she had to go/ I don't know she wouldn't say") and "Ticket To Ride".Ride" ("The girl that's driving me mad is going away").



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* SillyLoveSongsSillyLoveSongs: Just like the earlier albums most of the material here deals with love.
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* OneWordTitle: "Help".
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* FaceOnTheCover: The band is shown from a distance and in different clothing, but in an empty background that does not distract from the viewer watching at them.
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--> "When all my troubles seemed so far away".

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--> "When ''Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away".away''.

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* AlbumTitleDrop: From the first line...
--> ''HELP!''



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Music/PaulMcCartney dreamt the melody of ''Yesterday'' during his sleep. When he woke up he asked everyone whether they could remember who wrote it? As it turned out he had invented it himself and so he recorded it as a solo piece, without the rest of the band. It would become the most often covered song in history.

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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Music/PaulMcCartney dreamt the melody of ''Yesterday'' "Yesterday" during his sleep. When he woke up he asked everyone whether they could remember who wrote it? As it turned out he had invented it himself and so he recorded it as a solo piece, without the rest of the band. It would become the most often covered song in history.



* NostalgiaFilter: "Help", thinking about "when I was younger, so much younger than today. I never needed anybody's help in any way" and "Yesterday", referring to the time "when all my troubles seemed so far away".

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* NostalgiaFilter: "Help", thinking about "when NostalgiaFilter:
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I was younger, so much younger than today. I never needed anybody's help in any way" and "Yesterday", referring to the time "when way''
** "Yesterday"
--> "When
all my troubles seemed so far away".



* UrbanLegend: The album cover supposedly has the band mimicking the word ''Help'' in semaphore sign language. This was originally the idea, but the photographer felt the movements they made didn't look as photogenic, so he allowed the band to strike other poses that looked better.

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* UrbanLegend: The album cover supposedly has the band mimicking the word ''Help'' "help" in semaphore sign language. This was originally the idea, but the photographer felt the movements they made didn't look as photogenic, so he allowed the band to strike other poses that looked better.
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* BreakUpSong: "Yesterday" and "Ticket To Ride".



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Music/PaulMcCartney dreamt the melody of ''Yesterday'' during his sleep. When he woke up he asked everyone whether they could remember who wrote it? As it turned out he had invented it himself and so he recorded it as a solo piece, without the rest of the band. It would become the most often covered song in history.



* InTheStyleOf: "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is basically John doing Music/BobDylan (with John himself saying he'd never have used the "clown" line/rhyme otherwise).

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* InTheStyleOf: GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lennon wrote "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" about a man trying to keep his homosexuality a secret, most obviously referring to their manager Brian Epstein. The lyrics itself don't directly allude to it, though.
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"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is basically John doing Music/BobDylan (with John himself saying he'd never have used the "clown" line/rhyme otherwise).otherwise).
** "I've Just Seen A Face" is pure country.



* NostalgiaFilter: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..."

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* NostalgiaFilter: "Yesterday, "Help", thinking about "when I was younger, so much younger than today. I never needed anybody's help in any way" and "Yesterday", referring to the time "when all my troubles seemed so far away..."away".
* OneWomanSong: "Dizzy Miss Lizzy".
* ThePowerOfLove: "It's Only Love", "I Need You".
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Help!" was a summarization of Lennon's feelings about Beatlemania at that point.
* ShoutOut:
** Music/TheRutles spoofed the film and the title track as "Ouch!" in their film "The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash".
** Inside the booklet of Music/{{Gorillaz}}' album ''Music/DemonDays'' the illustration for the song "Every planet we reach is dead" has the band members strike poses that mimick the album cover of ''Help!''.
** The tabletop game ''TabletopGame/TicketToRide'' was named after the song of the same name.


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* UrbanLegend: The album cover supposedly has the band mimicking the word ''Help'' in semaphore sign language. This was originally the idea, but the photographer felt the movements they made didn't look as photogenic, so he allowed the band to strike other poses that looked better.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The Beatles stand in it on the album cover.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: "Help!", as well as this album and the [[Film/Help film]].

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* ExcitedShowTitle: "Help!", as well as this album and [[Film/{{Help}} the [[Film/Help film]].



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* From the film score by Ken Thorne

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# "From Me To You Fantasy"

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# "From Me To You Fantasy"Fantasy"*



# "In The Tyrol"

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# "In The Tyrol"Tyrol"*



# "Another Hard Day's Night"

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# "Another Hard Day's Night"Night"*



# "Medley: The Bitter End/You Can't Do That"

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# "Medley: The Bitter End/You Can't Do That"That"*



# "The Chase"

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# "The Chase"
Chase"*

* From the film score by Ken Thorne
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* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Buck Owens and Larry Williams, respectively.
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* CoveredUp: "Act Naturally", and to a lesser extent "Dizzy Miss Lizzy".

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* CoveredUp: "Act Naturally", and to a lesser extent "Dizzy Miss Lizzy".
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* NostalgiaFiller: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..."

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* NostalgiaFiller: NostalgiaFilter: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..."
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[[caption-width-right:350:The standard album cover for ''Help!''.]]

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'''''Help!''''' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.

Interestingly, the album cover with the Beatles using flag semaphore to spell "HELP" is inaccurate. It instead spells "NUJV". According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, this inaccuracy was intentional as it turned out that the "HELP" arrangement didn't look good enough. On the US version of the album, it was changed to "NVUJ".

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!! Tracklist (Standard Version):

# "Help!"
# "The Night Before"
# "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
# "I Need You"
# "Another Girl"
# "You're Going To Lose That Girl"
# "Ticket To Ride"
# "Act Naturally"
# "It's Only Love"
# "You Like Me Too Much"
# "Tell Me What You See"
# "I've Just Seen A Face"
# "Yesterday"
# "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"

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!! Tracklist (US Version):

# "Help!"
# "The Night Before"
# "From Me To You Fantasy"
# "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
# "I Need You"
# "In The Tyrol"
# "Another Girl"
# "Another Hard Day's Night"
# "Ticket To Ride"
# "Medley: The Bitter End/You Can't Do That"
# "You're Going To Lose That Girl"
# "The Chase"

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!!Principal Members:

* Music/GeorgeHarrison - guitar, backing and lead vocals
* Music/JohnLennon - lead vocals, guitar, piano
* Music/PaulMcCartney - lead vocals, bass, guitar, piano, güiro
* Music/RingoStarr - drums, percussion, lead vocals, tambourine, maracas, cowbell, bongos, claves, brushed snare

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!! It's Only Tropes:

* CoveredUp: "Act Naturally", and to a lesser extent "Dizzy Miss Lizzy".
* CutAndPasteTranslation
* ExcitedShowTitle: "Help!", as well as this album and the [[Film/Help film]].
* InTheStyleOf: "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is basically John doing Music/BobDylan (with John himself saying he'd never have used the "clown" line/rhyme otherwise).
* NewSoundAlbum: To an extent. There's the country-rock "Act Naturally", and the proto-metal (to some people) "Ticket To Ride".
* NostalgiaFiller: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..."
* SillyLoveSongs
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Ringo Starr sings lead on "Act Naturally", and George Harrison sings lead on "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much".
* SubduedSection: "Help!".

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