Paul McCartney

Yeah, I think that's one of the things that made the Beatles special, was that three of us were grammar school boys.

So we'd

had to learn or be exposed to things like Lewis Carroll, as you say, Dickens.

My case would be like Thomas Hardy and Shakespeare and stuff.

Even though we didn't like it at the time, because it was school.

It was like, oh, this is boring.

I think once we started writing, I started to realize, oh, it's finding its way in here somehow.

It's just like sponges.

We got it all in our beings, and now we're writing songs.

You're starting to realize that like a rhyming couplet,

which I would learn about through studying Hamlet from A-level or whatever.

And I always thought that was a cool idea of Shakespeare's.

He just finished up the thing with, you know, I'm going to do the bop, and I'm going to do the bop.

Wow.

Goodbye.

That's the end of that.

So it was only years later I realized I'd used that

Unwittingly in and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make Proceeding that is golden slumbers, which you could literally word-for-word taken from.

Yeah, probably.

No, I like that.