The guitar solo that appears on ‘The Night Before’ was recorded in February 17, 1965 and it is such a clever idea that it could not go unacknowledged. George and Paul play the double-tracked solo, an octave apart. Genius! “George and Paul are playing the same break exactly, both playing but in different octaves,” Lennon informed Melody Maker on February 27th, 1965. Therefore, as an overdub onto ‘track 4,’ both George and Paul played the same guitar solo but one was an octave higher than the other. Paul played his Epiphone Casino guitar while George used his newly aquired Fender Stratocaster. The final seconds of the song feature a miniature reprise of this solo, which was recorded the same way.
