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A formulaic love song, 'I Need You'
was written by George for his girlfriend Pattie Boyd, and
was one of two of his Beatles' songs which he didn't comment
on his 1980 book I Me Mine (the other was 'You Like Me Too
Much').
It was also the only George song to
be featured in the film Help! (in the Salisbury Plain
sequence) and the first to use a wah-wah pedal to distort
the guitar sound.
Some Beatles' books have claimed
that George wrote it in the Bahamas while separated from
Pattie, but this can't be true as recording began on
February 15, 1965, and these Bahamian scenes weren't shot
until the following week.
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