I Need You ( Beatles song ) - wikipedia I Need You ( Beatles song ) `` I Need You '' The Italian single release of the song, backed with `` Dizzy Miss Lizzy '' Song by the Beatles from the album Help ! Published Northern Songs Released 6 August 1965 Recorded 15 -- 16 February 1965, EMI Studios, London Genre Pop rock Length 2 : 28 Label Parlophone Songwriter ( s ) George Harrison Producer ( s ) George Martin `` I Need You '' is a song by the Beatles and appears on the album Help !. It is the second George Harrison song the band released after two albums without any songwriting contribution from Harrison. It was performed in their second film, Help ! and is the second video produced showing George Harrison singing lead vocal ( after `` I 'm Happy Just to Dance with You '' from A Hard Day 's Night ). Contents 1 Composition 2 Musical characteristics and recording 3 Personnel 4 Cover versions 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links Composition The song was recorded on 15 and 16 February 1965. This was the first recording session for the group in 1965 and included two others, `` Ticket to Ride '' and `` Another Girl '', both of which were also included on the Help ! album. The song is often assumed to be addressing Harrison 's relationship with Pattie Boyd, whom he had met in March 1964 while filming A Hard Day 's Night ( they married in January 1966 ). Some Beatles ' books have claimed that George wrote it in the Bahamas while separated from Pattie, but this ca n't be true as recording began on February 15th, 1965, and the Bahamas scenes were n't shot until the following week. Musical characteristics and recording The song is in A major ( actually a little less than half a semitone below A, as were `` Ticket to Ride '' and `` Another Girl '', also recorded that day ). The recording 's distinctive lead guitar cadences were achieved through Harrison 's first recorded use of a volume pedal, ( used again on the Lennon composition `` Yes It Is '' from the same sessions ) and by common guitar suspended chords in the key of A. These form the introduction and most of the verse of the song and give a quasi-modal effect relieved in the verse by a line in the relative minor ( with a simple backing harmony from Lennon and McCartney ), the whole making a fourteen - bar ternary verse - structure. This, after a repeat, segues easily into a second, bridge melody that introduces a cowbell for contrast and is based on a simple IV - V-I chord progression that passes through the dominant key to resolve back on the verse. An interesting feature is the use of an imperfect cadence ( resolving on A Major ) in the climax of the bridge ( on `` I just ca n't go on anymore '' ) which uses II ( B7 ) and V ( E7 ) chords. Many such aspects of the song are developed in Harrison 's song `` If I Needed Someone '' on the group 's next album, Rubber Soul. Personnel George Martin kept notes during the session that documented the unusual arrangement, which was : George Harrison -- double - tracked vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar, twelve - string lead guitar John Lennon -- harmony vocal, snare drum Paul McCartney -- harmony vocal, bass Ringo Starr -- acoustic guitar percussion, cowbell Personnel per George Martin, quoted in Ryan and Kehew Cover versions The Sunshine Company recorded a version, arranged by George Tipton, for their 1967 Imperial Records LP Happy Is the Sunshine Company. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the song in tribute to Harrison at the Concert for George in 2002. The progressive rock supergroup Transatlantic recorded a mix of two songs called `` I Need You '' ( this one and America 's 1972 single ) on their 2009 album The Whirlwind. The first part ( America 's cover ) is sung by Neal Morse while the Beatles 's part features vocals by the band 's drummer Mike Portnoy. Notes ^ Jump up to : Pollack 1992. ^ Jump up to : MacDonald 2005, pp. 145 -- 146. ^ Jump up to : Lewisohn 1988, p. 54. Jump up ^ Harry 2000, p. 199. Jump up ^ Steve Turner & `` The Beatles A Hard Days Write '' ( The Stories Behind Every Song ), p. 119. Jump up ^ Dominic Pedler. Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles. Omnibus Press, London 2003 p 95. Jump up ^ Ryan & Kehew 2006, p. 389. Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Jump up ^ `` Concert for George ''. allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 January 2015. References Concert for George ( booklet ). London : Oops Publishing. 2002. R2 745 / 16. Harry, Bill ( 2000 ). The Beatles Encyclopedia : Revised and Updated. London : Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0 - 7535 - 0481 - 2. Lewisohn, Mark ( 1988 ). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York : Harmony Books. ISBN 0 - 517 - 57066 - 1. MacDonald, Ian ( 2005 ). Revolution in the Head : The Beatles ' Records and the Sixties ( Second Revised ed. ). London : Pimlico ( Rand ). ISBN 1 - 84413 - 828 - 3. Pollack, Alan ( 7 December 1992 ). `` Notes on `` I Need You '' ``. Notes on... Series. Ryan, Kevin ; Kehew, Brian ( 2006 ). Recording the Beatles : The Studio Equipment and Techniques Used to Create Their Classic Albums. n.p. : Curvebender Publishing. ISBN 0 - 9785200 - 0 - 9. External links Alan W. Pollack 's Notes on `` I Need You '' Help ! Songs Side one `` Help ! '' `` The Night Before '' `` You 've Got to Hide Your Love Away '' `` I Need You '' `` Another Girl '' `` You 're Going to Lose That Girl '' `` Ticket to Ride '' Side two `` Act Naturally '' `` It 's Only Love '' `` You Like Me Too Much '' `` Tell Me What You See '' `` I 've Just Seen a Face '' `` Yesterday '' `` Dizzy Miss Lizzy '' Non-album tracks `` I 'm Down '' `` Yes It Is '' `` Bad Boy '' Outtakes `` If You 've Got Trouble '' `` That Means a Lot '' `` Wait '' Related article Help ! ( film ) The Beatles discography Help ! ( George Martin album ) Please Please Me With the Beatles A Hard Day 's Night Beatles for Sale Help ! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles ( White Album ) Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be Past Masters Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Need_You_(Beatles_song)&oldid=841927089 '' Categories : 1960s ballads 1965 songs The Beatles songs Song recordings produced by George Martin Songs written for films Songs written by George Harrison Songs published by Northern Songs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Brezhoneg Deutsch Español Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano ქართული Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Português Русский Svenska 4 more Edit links This page was last edited on 19 May 2018, at 00 : 47. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote i need you by the beatles
Answer: George Harrison