Saw the Help! movie on tv when I was young, and it was so cool having all these songs on it, filmed as music videos are filmed today. This was during the early 80s, the MTV revolution was in full swing, so it was a heck of a curiosity for me to see all these songs from the mid-1960s, filmed in full colour, and edited pretty much like the music videos we were seeing on the pop charts! I then went on a hunt to find the record, and finally found it, and used to thrash it all the time. Especially songs like The Night Before, Another Girl, You're Gonna Lose That Girl, and I've Just Seen A Face. My favourite song on the album is It's Only Love - I know John would probably regard it as a throwaway tune, nothing special (remember reading that in a Rolling Stone interview once), but I listen to it more than I do with Yesterday. But of course, Yesterday is one of the most instantly-recognised songs of all time, recognised by the Guinness Book Of Records as having the most cover versions by different artists.
For me, the Help soundtrack rocks. George's songs are great too. For many bands, to make an album like this would be a pinnacle. The Beatles made Rubber Soul, then Revolver, then Pepper... culminating in Abbey Road - the stratospheric heights they were about to reach (brushing aside Beatlemania for a sec) were probably unforseen by everybody at the time of Help! coming out!
