Editing Rubber Soul (section)

===="In My Life"====
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Lennon credited a remark made by [[BBC]] journalist [[Kenneth Allsop]], who had asked why his songs appeared to lack the wordplay and childhood focus evident in his 1964 book ''[[In His Own Write]]'', as the catalyst for "[[In My Life]]".{{sfn|Everett|2001|p=319}} Lennon considered the song to be his "first real major piece of work".{{sfn|Hertsgaard|1996|p=155}} The lyrics evoke his youth in [[Liverpool]] and reflect his nostalgia for a time before the onset of international fame.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=218}} McCartney recalled writing the melody on his own and said that the song's musical inspiration came from [[Smokey Robinson and the Miracles]];{{sfn|Everett|2001|p=319}}{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=151}} according to Lennon, McCartney merely assisted in writing what he called "the middle-eight melody".{{sfn|Kruth|2015|p=118}} In Gould's description, "In My Life" "owed a conscious debt" to the Miracles' contemporary hit "[[The Tracks of My Tears]]" and thereby served as "the most recent installment in the lively cultural exchange between Motown's Hitsville Studios and EMI's Abbey Road".{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=303}}{{refn|group=nb|Gould adds that, with "In My Life", Lennon "returned the compliment gratefully" after Robinson had based the lyrical theme of "The Tracks of My Tears" on two of his introspective songs from ''Beatles for Sale'', "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" and "I'm a Loser".{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=303}}}}

Martin's Bach-inspired piano solo was overdubbed in the Beatles' absence,{{sfn|Womack|2007|pp=122, 123}} over a section that they had left empty.{{sfn|Ingham|2006|p=187}} Womack says that the baroque aspect of this contribution furthers the song's nostalgic qualities,{{sfn|Womack|2007|p=122}} a point also made by Gould, who adds that, by revisiting the past and presenting emotional themes that are resolved in the narrative, "In My Life" serves as the album's only song that "sounds the Beatles' original ground theme of happiness-in-relationship".{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=304}}