Emily Linge has released a new cover of “Things We Said Today” by the Beatles, posting the acoustic performance to YouTube today. The timing lines up neatly with the song’s own history. Paul McCartney wrote it in May 1964 while on holiday in the US Virgin Islands with Jane Asher, and the Beatles recorded it that June at Abbey Road. It reached the public on July 10, 1964, as the B-side to “A Hard Day’s Night” in the UK, which puts Linge’s cover just two days ahead of the track turning 62.
It is also a fitting choice for a deep-cut fan. “Things We Said Today” was one of three songs McCartney wrote specifically for the film “A Hard Day’s Night,” alongside “And I Love Her” and “Can’t Buy Me Love,” though it ended up left out of the movie itself and tucked onto the non-soundtrack side of the album instead. Beatles diehards have argued for decades that it is one of the most underrated songs in the catalog, a moodier, more reflective turn than the band’s early run of teenage love songs. Choosing it over one of the more obvious singles fits the pattern Linge has built with her ongoing Beatles Covers series on her channel, favoring songs that reward a closer listen.
The recorded guitar parts came from Simon Tomkins, who has taught Linge guitar for years and has appeared on previous covers of hers. The track was mixed and mastered by Elvis Garagic at MORE Studios in Dubai. Linge, an 18 year old British-Norwegian singer-songwriter raised in Dubai, has spent years building her YouTube channel on a mix of covers and original songs, and this release arrives not long after her original single “Biggest Mistake” in June, the kind of back and forth between her own writing and classic reinterpretations that has defined her channel from the start.
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