“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book. It took me years to write will you take a look?” .. and so goes the first line of the Beatles’ first non-love song single - Paperback Writer.

Paperback Writer was mostly written by Paul McCartney and with the accompanying help from John on harmony and musical side.. also suggesting and/or approving some lines of lyrics.

What was the idea behind the song? How did it came to be?

Well, there’s one story that goes..

DJ Jimmy Savile, who says he was reading a book backstage when John Lennon asked McCartney what they should write about next. McCartney’s reply was: ‘Why not write about that book Jimmy is reading?’

Some also believes that McCartney once remarked that he liked the way the phrase “paperback writer” sounded, and wanted to build a song around it.

The idea for Paperback Writer according to Paul McCartney came to hime while driving out to John Lennon’s house in Weybridge in the stockbroker belt for a songwriting session.

By the time McCartney arrived in Weybridge he had the song’s structure in his head. McCartney: “I told John I had this idea of trying to write off to a publishers to become a paperback writer, and I said I think it should be written like a letter. I took a bit of paper out and I said it should be something like ‘Dear Sir or Madam, as the case may be…’

Galing talaga. Such a genius those lads are…