"The Night Before" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 film Help! and accompanying album Help! The song was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. McCartney considered it one of his favorite tracks on the Help! album. In the film, the video sequence featured the Beatles mime-performing the song on Salisbury Plain where Stonehenge is located. Background and composition Neither Paul McCartney nor John Lennon had strong memories about the creation of "The Night Before". Although the song is credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, both identified it as being written primarily by McCartney. McCartney recalled writing it at the apartment of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family, at 57 Wimpole Street in central London. "The Night Before" is mainly in the key of D major, with a brief modulation to G major in the bridge, and is in 4/4 time. The verse's vocal arrangement uses what writer Kenneth Womack identifies as a call and response structure; however, musicologist Alan W. Pollack instead describes it as "hocket-like" due to it being a "single thread vocal line shared" between the lead and backing parts. According to author Jonathan Gould, writing in his 2007 biography Can't Buy Me Love, the arrangement "highlights the increasingly complex and conversational relationship between lead and backup singing that would figure heavily in the Beatles' music in the years ahead." In the opinion of musicologist Walter Everett, had the Beatles recorded "The Night Before" at a slower tempo, it "could have been a Kinks or Animals song". Recording The Beatles recorded "The Night Before" and George Harrison's "You Like Me Too Much" on 17 February 1965, during the third session devoted to the soundtrack of their second feature film Help! Recorded in EMI's Studio Two, George Martin produced the session, assisted by engineers Norman Smith and Ken Scott. The band achieved a satisfactory basic track in two takes, featuring McCartney singing and playing bass, Ringo Starr on drums, Harrison playing rhythm guitar on his Gretsch Tennessean, and Lennon playing a Hohner Pianet electric piano, the first time the instrument was used on a Beatles recording. The band overdubbed several parts onto take two. McCartney double-tracked his vocal, Lennon and Harrison added backing vocals, Starr added maracas to the bridge, and McCartney and Harrison – the former of whom using his new Epiphone Casino – played a dual