 On 17 May 1966, the day after the new Beach Boys album had been released in America, McCartney and John Lennon attended a private listening party for "Pet Sounds" held at London's Waldorf Hotel.In 1990, McCartney told Beach Boys biographer David Leaf that it was "just the introduction that's influenced [by the Beach Boys]", referring to the harmonies he and Lennon devised for the opening lines of "Here, There and Everywhere".McCartney added that, with this style of introduction, they wanted to capture the "old-fashioned" idea of a preamble to the song.