In keeping with the other Harrison songs of this era, “Think For Yourself” is a partly-political, partly-philosophical rant against politicians and other people who try to keep people from setting their goals too high. He proposes that we should think however we want and that to expand your mind to greater possibilities is the way forward.

“Think For Yourself” was recorded in a single session on November 8th, 1965, under the working title “Won’t Be There With You”.

The Beatles recorded the basic track – rhythm guitars, bass and drums – in a single take. They then overdubbed lead guitar, more bass (this time fed through a fuzz box), tambourine, maracas and organ, along with two three-part vocal tracks.

Paul used a fuzz box on the bass on Think For Yourself. When Phil Spector was making Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, the engineer who’s set up the track overloaded the microphone on the guitar player and it became very distorted. Phil Spector said, ‘Leave it like that, it’s great’. Some years later everyone started to try to copy that sound and so they invented the fuzz box. We had one and tried the bass through it and it sounded really good.
-George Harrison

Prior to the recording, George Martin taped the group rehearsing the song. The Beatles were aware of this, deliberately playing up to the microphones.

The recording went mostly unused, although a six-second segment of the group practising their harmonies found its way into the Yellow Submarine film, when The Beatles were called upon to revive the mayor of Pepperland.

Paul McCartney’s attempt at Ska. John Lennon and George Harrison absolutely loathed this song. Lennon stated that he hated how much time was devoted to it, calling it “Paul’s granny music”. Apparently, quite a few people share Lennon’s view, as a 2004 BBC poll named it the single worst song of all time.

“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is the fourth track on the Beatles' ninth studio album, The Beatles (more well known as the The White Album).

The song reached No.1 in the Australian, Austrian and Swiss charts. It also separately received No.1 and No.7 in the Japanese Oricon singles and international charts.

That same year, The Marmalade had a cover single that reached no. 1 in the UK single charts.

Rob Sheffield, writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, and author of Dreaming The Beatles, wrote this about John and Paul’s experience recording the song, in his book:

A McCartney song inspired by a comical faux-French ballad he used to busk in the streets when he was a teenager in order to attract women and make his friends laugh. Paul asked the mother of his friend, Peter Asher, if the French was correct.

Well, it’s pretty self-evident what this song is about: THE WORD – LOVE!

Fun trivia: after finishing this song, Lennon and McCartney got incredibly high and scrawled the lyrics to this song on a large sheet of paper to celebrate.