Title: It's Only Love Help!
Credits: John Lennon - Paul Mccartney
Recorded: EMI Studios, London, 15 June, 1965
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Locations: Help! - track 9
Anthology 2 - disc 1, track 8

Issued on the non-soundtrack side of Help! album, the master version of John's composition It's Only Love was Take 6, with a prominent lead guitar overdubbed by George Harrison, the song was begun and completed in just three hours. The previously unreleased version version featured on Anthology 2 was Take 2 - acoustic guitar, bass, drums and Lennon vocal only - proceeded by the false start that was Take 3.

The song was completed in six takes; four of the six were complete. Lewisohn reports that take five was a breakdown. Both the mono and stereo mixes, from take six, were prepared June 18. This track is found in reprocessed stereo on the US LP "Rubber Soul."

Take three, a false start, was released in both the US and the UK on March 19, 1996 on "The Beatles Anthology Volume 2." On the release this take was followed by a complete take 2.

On April 30, 1987 the album "Help!" was released in both the US and the UK on the CD format. George Martin remixed the album in stereo for this release.


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