Talk:It's Only Love

Is the Beatles Bible a reliable source?

A user named Sundayclose told me the Beatles Bible is not a reliable source, when I tried to add that Harrison plays an acoustic twelve-string guitar on this song (which is documented in several sources). So this brings me to the question, is the Beatles Bible a reliable source? If not, should all information in this article be removed per WP:INACCURATE? Best wishes, --88.115.126.130 (talk) 00:12, 16 April 2017 (UTC).

Your comment invites a question: if it's "documented in several sources", then what's the problem with citing those sources since your edit was challenged? The Beatles Bible is just a fansite with a lot of details; that doesn't mean the details are accurate. The owner of the website has no inside information on the Beatles, he provides no sources for most of his information, and by his own admission can't remember where he got some of his information. That is an unreliable source, especially when there are numerous sources related to the Beatles that are reliable; Lewisohn and MacDonald as a couple of examples. Those sources do have inside information. Sundayclose (talk) 01:18, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Line-up

I have the same issue with the line-up presented by MacDonald, because as said elsewhere, his book is full of factual errors in some of the line-ups to the Beatles songs. 88.115.126.130 (talk) and (talk) appear to have the same problem as me in terms of MacDonald's book containing questionable claims, because I tried to change it to say that John and George contributed more guitar parts than credited for, then add a verification template as well as citation needed, but it was reverted back for some reason.

So the question is: did John and George both contribute acoustic & electric guitars or not? 61.69.217.3 (talk) 21:44, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I've looked into this and added more detail from Lewisohn and from Everett's The Beatles as Musicians and John Winn's Way Beyond Compare. We now have more guitar parts mentioned. In fact, MacDonald discusses "Harrison's guitar tracks", so there was never a problem with him on that point – he is saying there are at least two lead guitars. I'm sure one of the three electric parts (the more rhythmic playing over the verses) has to be Lennon, but it's not as if any reliable source I've come across credits Lennon. JG66 (talk) 06:25, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Suggestions for expansion

I'd written the following to post at the AfD started for this article, but the entry was rightly removed from there (the nominator was clearly making a series of nuisance edits and has since been banned). I figured my comments in support of the article might be worth adding here, anyway:

It's a keep, the article just needs expanding. If the page needs to carry a notability tag, then fine, but the required third party commentary is out there. The recording is notable for George Harrison's guitar effect, for instance, which some sources identify as the first example of the Beatles feeding an instrument (other than organ) through a Leslie speaker cabinet; this effect came to define their sound, and psychedelia's, over 1966–67. Also, Capitol Records' use of the song as a side-opener of the US Rubber Soul contributed to that album's (inaccurate, according to some writers) reputation as a folk rock LP, undermining the soul/R&B aspect of the original album. Bryan Ferry released a well-known cover version in 1973; Gary U.S. Bonds had a minor hit with the song in 1981, which gave it renewed attention in the aftermath to Lennon's death. JG66 (talk) 05:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Wrong year in short description on mobile

When searching for It's Only Love on a mobile to get to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Only_Love, the brief description says It's Only Love - 2021 song by the Beatles. 2021 is obviously not specified within the article, so I guess that Wikipedia is not picking out the correct year. Can anyone fix it? --Gadge888 (talk) 00:20, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

I've never looked with a phone, but with a computer there is no short description. Sundayclose (talk) 00:35, 31 January 2021 (UTC)