“I remember it was Paul’s idea: instead of singing ‘I love you’ again, we’d have a third party. That kind of little detail is apparently in his work now where he will write a story about someone and I’m more inclined to just write about myself.” The Yeah Yeah Yeah was John’s idea – “The Yeah-yeah. I don’t know.” He went on to say, “…there have been lots of ‘oh yeah’ and ‘Yeah’ and ‘uh-huhs’ in rock and roll. Lonnie Donegan always did it. He was a Britisher who had done a lot of American folk music. And I remember Elvis did that in ‘All Shook Up.’ But I can’t remember who we got the ‘yeah-yeah-yeah’ from for sure…. “We’d written the song, and we needed more, so we had ‘yeah, yeah, yeah,’ and it caught on”‘ John Lennon 1980 in his last major interview – to David Sheff NYT (All We Are Saying:)