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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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The Beatles – Help!
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The title track of the album and film of the same name, “Help!” was released in 1965 as a single, and eventually ranked No. 29 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of
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The Beatles – Yesterday Samples
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See all of “Yesterday” by The Beatles’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Beatles – In My Life
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“In My Life” is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent
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The Beatles – Matchbox
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The Beatles covered some of the earlier “rockabilly” hits, and the one singer songwriter they covered most was Carl Perkins, whose original hit version and annotations are here.
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The Beatles – Yesterday Covers
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See all of “Yesterday” by The Beatles’s covers
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The Beatles – Yesterday Interpolations
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See all of “Yesterday” by The Beatles’s interpolations
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The Beatles – I Am the Walrus
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“I Am the Walrus” was made up of three distinctly different songs–the first is the beginning of the song, which John was given the idea of by hearing a distant police siren. The
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The Beatles – I'm in Love
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Every night I can't sleep thinking of you / And every little thing that you do / And I'm telling all my friends I'm in love / And I'm telling the world you make me feel proud / You
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The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
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One of The Beatles’s undisputed masterpieces, the groundbreaking and influential “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967) was based on John Lennon’s childhood memories in Liverpool
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The Marvelettes – Please Mr. Postman
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Please Mr. Postman is the debut single of The Marvelettes, featured in the band’s debut album Please Mr. Postman (1961).
The song reached the number-one position on the Billboard
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The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
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“Eleanor Rigby” is a song about loneliness and depression representing a departure from their early pop love songs.
This is an early example of the Beatles taking risks and
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The Beatles – A Day in the Life
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For “A Day in the Life,” John Lennon wrote the opening and closing sections, while McCartney contributed the bridge. For the climax, they hired an orchestra of 40 musicians
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The Beatles – Something
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“Something” is the first George Harrison penned track on Abbey Road. It is hailed as one of the greatest love songs of all time by Frank Sinatra, who mistakenly introduced it in
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The Beatles – Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
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Originally written by Jerry Leiber and performed by Little Willie Littlefield in 1952, “Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” is one of the Beatles' most well-known covers.
They first
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The Beatles – Hey Jude
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Originally titled “Hey Jules,” named after John Lennon’s son Julian, this song was written by Paul McCartney to comfort him during John and Cynthia’s divorce. John Lennon stated
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The Beatles – Lovely Rita
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McCartney wrote the song about a meter maid who is speculated to have been named Meta Davies who gave him a parking ticket outside of the recording studio where most of Sgt. Pepper
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The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
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Originally a non-album single that ultimately ended up on the Magical Mystery Tour album, “All You Need is Love” was created for and performed on Our World, the first live
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The Beatles – Come Together
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“Come Together” is the opening track to Abbey Road, written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for famed LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary, who was running for Governor of
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The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
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A dry-witted story of a man who failed to charm his love interest into bed, and how he got his revenge in an extreme (and sociopathic) way.
Norwegian Wood is my song completely
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The Beatles – Lady Madonna
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“Lady Madonna” is a single released by the Beatles in 1968, with its B-side track as “The Inner Light”.
Paul McCartney says the song works as a tribute to women everywhere, as it
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The Beatles – Across the Universe
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In a 1970 interview, Lennon referred to this song as:
[…] one of the best lyrics I’ve written. In fact, it could be the best. It’s good poetry, or whatever you call it, without
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The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere
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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.
A simple love song and Mojo Magazine’s 4th best song ever written, “Here, There And Everywhere
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The Beatles – Let It Be
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One of The Beatles' many iconic ballads, written by McCartney. The level of repetition in the lyrics suggests this song was written quickly and through emotional inspiration
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The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
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“Here Comes the Sun” is a George Harrison-penned track from Abbey Road. Following a period of disillusionment with the music industry, he skipped a day at Apple’s offices and went
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The Beatles – Mr. Moonlight
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“Mr. Moonlight” is a song written by Roy Lee Johnson, best known for being covered by The Beatles on the 1964 album “Beatles for Sale” in the United Kingdom and “Beatles ‘65” in
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Matt Monro – Yesterday
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The very first cover version of the most covered pop song in history. Due to the hesitation of the Beatles to release their version (as it clashed with their image), Matt Monro’s
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The Beatles – You Can't Do That
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The twelfth track on the soundtrack to A Hard Day’s Night is one of John Lennon’s most upbeat rock ‘n’ roll songs. It was influenced by Larry Williams, one of Lennon’s heroes; and
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The Beatles – Don't Let Me Down
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The B-side for the single “Get Back” was recorded in 1969. “Don’t Let Me Down” had multiple versions, but the most famous one was performed live on the roof of Apple Records
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The Beatles – Helter Skelter
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A “helter skelter” is an amusement park ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower (it’s also British slang, meaning “in disorderly haste or confusion”)
Paul
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The Shirelles – Baby It's You
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Originally recorded by The Shirelles and covered by The Beatles with John Lennon taking lead vocals, it was recorded and became track three, side two of Please Please Me.
The most
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The Beatles – She's Leaving Home
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This song, primarily McCartney’s idea, was based on a true story Paul read in the Daily Mirror on 27th February 1967 about a 17 year old girl, named Melanie Coe, who ran away to be
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The Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There
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Track one, side one of Please Please Me.
Now considered a rock'n'roll standard covered by everyone from Pharrell Williams to Led Zeppelin, it was originally titled Seventeen as
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