“Paul (McCartney) couldn’t play guitar . . .
. . . or bass with his left hand, so he learned to play with his right hand. Paul couldn’t write music notation, so he played what he composed and had someone else transcribe it. Paul couldn’t speak French, so he turned to a French teacher to translate into French the lyrics he wanted to include in a song, resulting in (Michelle) one of the Beatles’ most beautiful ballads.
Amazing what you can do when you can’t do something, eh?”
Here, There and Everywhere (The 100 Best Beatles Songs) by Stephen L. Spignesi and Michael Lewis (c 2004)