I Need You (Beatles song)

"I Need You"
Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music
Song by the Beatles
from the album Help!
Released6 August 1965
Recorded15–16 February 1965
StudioEMI, London
GenrePop rock,[1] folk rock[2]
Length2:28
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)George Harrison
Producer(s)George Martin

"I Need You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Help! It was written by George Harrison, the group's lead guitarist, and was the second composition of his to be released by the Beatles. The track appears in their film Help!, in a scene filmed on Salisbury Plain where the group were under military protection from a murderous cult.

Harrison wrote "I Need You" about Pattie Boyd, the English model whom he married in January 1966. Recorded in February 1965 at the start of the sessions for Help!, it features the Beatles' first use of a guitar volume pedal. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the song in tribute to Harrison at the Concert for George in November 2002.

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