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[About Not A Second Time] ... it was one of the first of the Beatles' songs to be subjected to critical analysis by a quality newspaper. William Mann, then music critic of The Times (London), compared part of it to Gustav Mahler's 'Song of the Earth'. John would later say that this review was responsible for "starting the whole intellectual bit about the Beatles".
"Harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs too," Mann wrote, "and one gets the impression that they think simultaneously of harmony and melody, so firmly are the major tonic sevenths and nineths built into their tunes, and the flat-submediant key-switches, so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of 'Not A Second Time'..." John's comment on this was, "I didn't know what the hell it was all about". Another time he said that he thought Aeolian cadences sounded like exotic birds.
From A Hard Day's Write by Steve Turner
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