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August 5 was apparently the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' Revolver album, so I skipped ahead in my Collection Audit project (I'm currently in the Ns) to listen to it. I wrote a rather lengthy post about some things I noticed, but rather than reblog the whole thing (this is a Zombies blog after all, although I am doing this same sort of thing with the Beatles), here's a thing I noticed about "Here, There, and Everywhere" that's relevant to this project:
The line "Running my hands through her hair" sounded familiar to me, and it wasn't too long before I placed it. There's an identical line near the end of Colin Blunstone's "She Loves the Way They Love Her" (on One Year). Both Blunstone and his former Zombies band mate Rod Argent (who wrote "She Loves the Way They Love Her") have listed the Beatles as an influence, and between that and both songs' rhyming "hair" with "there" ("There / Running my hands through her hair" in "Here, There, and Everywhere" and "Running my hands through her hair / And knowing she'll always be there" in "She Loves the Way They Love Her"), I think this is more than just a coincidence. At best, it might be an instance of subconscious influence.
