The Beatles - Michelle (cover by Luis Gomes)

This is a lovely tune composed by Paul McCartney, with the middle eight co-written with John Lennon. It was released by The Beatles in their 1965 album Rubber Soul!

The instrumental music of "Michelle" originated separately from the lyrical concept. Paul wrote this song in 1959. According to McCartney:

"Michelle" was a tune that I'd written in Chet Atkins' finger-picking style. There is a song he did called "Trambone" with a repetitive top line, and he played a bass line while playing a melody. This was an innovation for us; even though classical guitarists had played it, no rock'n'roll guitarists had played it. The first person we knew to use finger-picking style was Chet Atkins ... I never learned it. But based on Atkins' "Trambone", I wanted to write something with a melody and a bass line in it, so I did. I just had it as an instrumental in C!"

The words and style of "Michelle" have their origins in the popularity of Parisian Left Bank culture during McCartney's Liverpool days. In his own words, "it was at the time of people like Juliette Greco, Sacha Distel... the French bohemian thing."
He asked Jan Vaughan, a French teacher and the wife of his old friend Ivan Vaughan, to come up with a French name and a phrase that rhymed with it. McCartney said: "It was because I'd always thought that the song sounded French that I stuck with it. I can't speak French properly so that's why I needed help in sorting out the actual words.". Vaughan came up with "Michelle, ma belle", and a few days later McCartney asked for a translation of "these are words that go together well" – sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble. When McCartney played the song for Lennon, Lennon suggested the "I love you" bridge. Lennon was inspired by a song he heard the previous evening, Nina Simone's version of "I Put a Spell on You", which used the same phrase but with the emphasis on the last word, "I love you".

Well... hope you guys enjoy my tribute version!!!