Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
dear to heart music
There are a few songs and albums that hold a special meaning for both the girl and John and are mentioned throughout the story.
When John and the girl take Benzedrine to celebrate her birthday, they listen to Sam Cooke's Hit Kit. Especially the very last bonus track must've been a real laugh for John...but then again, they were pretty high by then anyway.
Angel Baby by Rosie & The Originals inspires John to call the girl Angel Baby
numerous times and he loves the song so much, that he still sings it in the 70s.
Calling the girl Honey Child
was inspired by The Olympics Well (Baby, Please Don't Go), a song John not only performed at The Cavern, but also with Yoko Ono live at the Fillmore East in New York City in 1971.
John tells the girl in his birthday letter not only about how he performed Stand By Me by Ben E. King for the first time at The Cavern but also how excited he is to perform it for her.
Whilst the girl models her latest acquisitions from C&A, Come Closer To Me plays on her Dansette record player.
A Picture of You by Joe Brown & The Bruvvers is a song that George performs for the first time in 1962.
George was so excited about it that he played the song to the girl beforehand a couple of times; that's why she asks John about it when he calls to wish her a happy birthday.
John and the girl's first proper date is seeing their idol Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock in theatre. Of course the song holds special meaning for both of them. John even keeps the theatre ticket stubs in a shoe box.
In 1967 John reminisces about the early days when he and the girl would listen to A Date With Elvis and Just Because from Elvis Presley's first LP.
John tries to scribble down the lyrics to Bobby Vee's Devil or Angel with the girl's help in Hamburg. After an eventful afternoon, John concludes that he loves both the girl's devilish and angelic side.
Another song performed by Bobby Vee is Take Good Care Of My Baby. The girl listens to it on repeat after her row with John at The Cavern.
Backstage at The Cavern, George tries to teach the girl Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue on guitar but John is not impressed.
Both John and the girl adore Buddy Holly for writing his own music. The girl also likes his glasses and therefore often encourages John to wear his own black-rimmed ones.
Cry For A Shadow is one of the girl's favourite early Beatles song.
George has written her about it in several letters from Hamburg and she enthusiastically cheers George on when he performs it at The Cavern, much to John's dismal.
Later that evening, John dedicates Ain't She Sweet to her and all is well again between the two.
John despairs over the abysmal lyrics of It's Only Love when he feels depressed and lonely. Even though John hates the song, it's exactly how he feels about the girl.
His encounter later that day with Sonny Freeman inspires him to write In My Life and both the girl's lively description and his own experience with the Freeman's apartment eventually will be immortalised in Norwegian Wood.
In 1967 the girl remembers fondly how John played an early version of Strawberry Fields Forever to her when she visited him in Almería during the filming of How I Won The War.
Although it's presumed that Don't Let Me Down is John's love song to Yoko (or Paul), at least part of the lyrics are taken from a birthday card the girl made for John in the early days of their relationship. For quite some time the girl ruminates whether that's just John being cruel and twisting the knife, a roundabout way of begging her to stay or if it means nothing at all.
His own song Here We Go Again makes John go down memory lane in 1973 and play The Ronettes' Be My Baby because it somehow reminds him of a lost love. (Who is it? Who is it?)
And of course yet another question remains: Is Girl really about her?