Title:	Run For Your Life
Credits:	John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded:	EMI Studios, London, 12 October, 1965
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Norman Smith
Location:	Rubber Soul - track 14

The last song on the album but the first to be recorded. John's lyric borrowed two lines from Elvis Presley's "Baby Lets Play House", which may explain why Lennon later expressed strong dislike for this song. to the layman the song sounds fine and it proved another ideal number with which to close an album.

Title:	Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown)
Credits:	John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded:	EMI Studios, London, 12 October, 1965
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Norman Smith
Location:	Rubber Soul - track 2 Anthology 2 - track 14, dick 1

As the Beatles' music became more experimental in nature so they used the recording studio to try out and, if necessary, re-vamp their song ideas - rather than, as they had been doing, using the facility to record songs and arrangements with which they were already familiar. With sessions for Rubber Soul, their sixth album in 33 months, the Beatles twice invested considerable time and thought into recordings that they would leave unissued in favour of re-made versions, one being Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown) and the other I'm Looking Though You.

Titled simply THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN When first aired in EMI's Abbey Road studio, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), a John Lennon-Paul McCartney collaboration written mostly by John, was a perfect indication of the new creative direction towards which the Beatles music was headed. The released version was a re-make cut on 21 October 1965. Take 1, an earlier model issued here, was recorded during the first day of sessions for the new album. Like the eventual mater, it includes a sitar contribution by George Harrison (the first time the Indian instrument was heard in a "pop" song) and also a lead and occasionally double-tracked vocal by John, harmonies form Paul and John, acoustic guitar, finger cymbals, maracas and bass guitar. The recording was marked "best" on the tape box and studio log-sheet so, clearly, the Beatles thought that they had made a master, and indeed it remained the preferred take for nine days, until they cut a re-make.

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