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MichelleThe Beatles

Released: December 3, 1965

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney Paul McCartney John Lennon

Producer: George Martin

"Michelle" is a song primarily written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Rubber Soul. The song would go on to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1967 and has since become one of the most widely recorded of all Beatles songs. Musical Structure The words and style of "Michelle" have their origins in the popularity of Parisian Left Bank culture during McCartney's Liverpool days. Read more on Last.fm.

Length: 2:43

[Verse 1]
Michelle, ma belle
These are words that go together well
My Michelle

[Verse 2]
Michelle, ma belle
Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble
Très bien ensemble

[Bridge 1]
I love you, I love you, I love you
That's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words I know that you'll understand

[Verse 3]
Michelle, ma belle
Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble
Très bien ensemble

[Bridge 2]
I need to, I need to, I need to
I need to make you see
Oh, what you mean to me
Until I do, I'm hoping you will know what I mean
I love you

[Instrumental Verse: Guitar solo]

[Bridge 3]
I want you, I want you, I want you
I think you know by now
I'll get to you somehow
Until I do I'm telling you so you'll understand

[Verse 4]
Michelle, ma belle
Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble
Très bien ensemble

[Outro]
And I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
My Michelle

The Beatles

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.

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