re: Beatles obsession thread

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Laid on the living room floor, a B&W television with the whole family watching the Ed Sullivan Show

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"Little Girl" is a home demo recorded by John Lennon sometime in 1965 that went unknown for six decades until it was announced that it would be included on the Beatles reissue album Rubber Soul: Special Edition (2026)

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"Little Girl" was recorded sometime in 1965 at John Lennon's home at the time, and dates to around the same time as "Day Tripper" Very few people knew of its existence until the box set was announced. Not even the band's biggest fans knew of its existence. According to Kevin Howlett, author Allan Rouse was the first person outside of the Lennon Estate and the few people who worked at Abbey Road to have known about the existence of the demo.

Giles Martin, who produced the set, found out about the demo when the Lennon Estate gave it to him as a tape reel from Lennon's archives, with John's son Sean Lennon giving it to him and telling him "Oh, and then there's this." A fan sent George Harrison the lyrics to the song written by John on a postcard sometime in 1965 or 1966.

The demo never circulated on any bootleg and was never traded amongst collectors. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone believed John was "sighing in Buddy Holly" on the demo. According to Rolling Stone, the demo consists of Lennon solely on vocal and acoustic guitar

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In a 2004 interview with Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, Cole explained how he came to be there at that precise moment.

On a London vacation with his wife, Cole, then a resident of Deerfield Beach, declined to enter a museum on the north London thoroughfare.

“I told her, ‘I’ve seen enough museums. [ ] You go on in, take your time and look around and so on, and I’ll just stay out here and see what’s going on outside,'” he recalled...

“I just happened to look up, and I saw those guys walking across the street like a line of ducks,” Cole remembered. “A bunch of kooks, I called them, because they were rather radical-looking at that time. You didn’t walk around in London barefoot.”

About a year later, Cole first noticed the “Abbey Road” album on top of the family record player (his wife was learning to play George Harrison’s love song “Something” on the organ). He did a double-take when he eyeballed McMillan’s photo.

“I had a new sportcoat on, and I had just gotten new shell-rimmed glasses before I left,” he says. “I had to convince the kids that that was me for a while. I told them, ‘Get the magnifying glass out, kids, and you’ll see it’s me.'

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