New Study Concludes John Lennon Wrote Melody To ‘In My Life’

US and Canadian researchers have revealed the most likely answer to a decades-long debate regarding the true composer of the Beatles’ hit “In My Life.”More »

By on August 1, 2018

US and Canadian researchers have revealed the most likely answer to a decades-long debate regarding the true composer of the Beatles’ hit “In My Life.” Featured on the band’s hit 1965 album, Rubber Soul, the song was claimed to have been written by Sir Paul McCartney despite being originally attributed to bandmate John Lennon. “As I recall, he didn’t have a tune to it. I said, ‘Well, you haven’t got a tune, let me just go and work on it’. I recall writing the whole melody. And it actually does sound very like me, if you analyze it,” he says in his 1997 biography. A statistical analysis done by Mark Glickman, the senior statistic lecturer at Harvard University and Jason Brown, a professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University unveiled that the likelihood that McCartney composed the tune is nearly 0.018, which is much less than 1 in 50. The song was broken down into 149 components which were investigated to check for Lennon and McCartney’s singular musical styles. “The basic idea is to convert a song into a set of different data structures that are amenable for establishing a signature of a song using a quantitative approach. Think of decomposing a colour into its constituent components of red, green and blue with different weights attached,” said Dr. Glickman. Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «