About The Beatles: 2015

Mar 10, 2015

If I Fell by The Beatles

John Lennon wrote this song, which may have been influenced by the ambivalence he felt during his first marriage. Lennon called this s...

I've Got a Feeling by The Beatles

This is a mix of two unfinished songs, Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling" and John Lennon's "Everybody H...

Devil In Her Heart by The Beatles

This was originally released by The Donays in 1962 as "Devil In Your Heart." The Donays were a female group from Detroit. ...

Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles

The title came from an expression Ringo Starr used. They chose it to take the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics. Working titles ...

You Know What To Do by The Beatles

This is just the second song that George Harrison wrote; it was not released until the Anthology CDs came out. It was originally going...

Happiness Is A Warm Gun by The Beatles

The title came from an article in a gun magazine John Lennon saw. "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" was the slogan of the National R...

If I Needed Someone by The Beatles

This was written by George Harrison, who got the idea from a few of The Byrds' songs including "The Bells of Rhymney" an...

Girl by The Beatles

John Lennon: "This was about a dream girl." His wife Cynthia thought this song might have been about her. (thanks, Mike - Mo...

I Call Your Name by The Beatles

John Lennon wrote this for Billy J. Kramer, whose band Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas was signed to The Beatles British record label...

Dig a Pony by The Beatles

The Beatles recorded this on the Apple Records rooftop on the afternoon of January 30, 1969. It appears in rooftop sequence of the mov...

Baby's In Black by The Beatles

This is about a man who is pursuing a woman, but the woman doesn't return the interest because she is still in mourning for her pr...

Eight Days a Week by The Beatles

This fades up from silence. It was the first pop song to do so. There are two possibilities on where the title came from. In Bob Sp...

Bad Boy by The Beatles

This song was written and originally recorded by Larry Williams, a black Rock singer who John Lennon admired. The song is about a rebe...

Back In The U.S.S.R. by The Beatles

The story of this song begins in Hrishikesh, India, where The Beatles were on a retreat learning Transcendental Meditation from their ...

Don't Pass Me By by The Beatles

Ringo Starr wrote this and sang lead. It was the first Beatles song he wrote by himself. Ringo wrote this song in 1963. In an inter...

All Together Now by The Beatles

A simple sing along song that took only 5 hours of studio time to complete, this appears at the end of the Beatles movie Yellow Subma...

Another Girl by The Beatles

Paul McCartney wrote this while on a 10 day holiday in Tunisia. "Another Girl" stands out as one of the most prototypical so...

Christmas Time Is Here Again by The Beatles

Recorded December 6, 1966 and November 28, 1967 in London, England, this song was never officially released until it appeared as the B...

All You Need Is Love by The Beatles

The Beatles played this for the first time on the "Our World" project, the first worldwide TV special. Broadcast in 24 count...

Blackbird by The Beatles

Paul McCartney wrote this about the civil rights struggle for blacks after reading about race riots in the US. He penned it in his kit...

Any Time At All by The Beatles

This is one of those songs that was finished "on the fly" so to speak. John Lennon had it half written when they went into t...

And Your Bird Can Sing by The Beatles

"Bird" is British slang for "Girl." One theory is that this song is a scolding by John Lennon of his buddy Mick Ja...

Why do the Oscars love British actors?

British actors have a long history of success at the Oscars , but this year - with five nominations acting - a new wave of talented British ...

Only a Northern Song by The Beatles

George Harrison wrote this. He called it, "A joke relating to Liverpool, the Holy City in the North of England." Liverpool i...

Old Brown Shoe by The Beatles

George Harrison wrote this song and also played guitar, organ and bass on the track; it was one of the few times he included a guitar ...

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles

The title comes from a Reggae band called Jimmy Scott and his Obla Di Obla Da Band. Says McCartney, "A fella who used to hang aro...

No Reply by The Beatles

This was one of John Lennon's first songs to tell a complete story. The boy knocks on his girl's door, knows she is home becau...

I Will by The Beatles

In the televised documentary The Beatles Anthology , Paul, George and Ringo are shown relaxing on a blanket outside. Ringo asks Paul ...

Lovely Rita by The Beatles

Paul McCartney wrote this as if he fell for a meter maid while she was taking his plate number. Said Paul: "I was bopping about o...

In Spite Of All The Danger by The Beatles

"In Spite Of All The Danger" is the first Beatles song ever recorded; it is also the only Beatles song credited to McCartney...

Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles

George Harrison wrote this in Eric Clapton's garden using one of Clapton's acoustic guitars. When the Beatles' manager Bri...

I'm Looking Through You by The Beatles

Paul McCartney wrote this when his girlfriend, an actress named Jane Asher, left on a theater tour instead of staying home like he had...

I've Just Seen a Face by The Beatles

Primarily written by Paul McCartney, the working title of this song was "Auntie Gin's Theme" because Paul McCartney'...

I Wanna Be Your Man by The Beatles

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were working on this when they ran into the Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham on September 10, ...

I Should Have Known Better by The Beatles

Composed by John Lennon, at first he "hammers the melody on the same note." (The Italian composer Monteverdi discovered the ...

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey by The Beatles

John Lennon described this song as, "About me and Yoko. Everybody seemed to be paranoid except for us two, who were in the glow o...

Happiness Is A Warm Gun by The Beatles

The title came from an article in a gun magazine John Lennon saw. "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" was the slogan of the National R...

Hello Little Girl by The Beatles

This song was written by John Lennon in 1957 and was performed at an audition at Decca Records on January 1, 1962. It is the first ori...

Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles

John Lennon dedicated this song to Yoko One. It was the first song he wrote for Yoko, who he married on March 20, 1969. Released as...

From Me to You by The Beatles

The title was taken from a letters column that ran in a popular British music newspaper called The New Musical Express (the NME). Th...

Girl by The Beatles

John Lennon: "This was about a dream girl." His wife Cynthia thought this song might have been about her. (thanks, Mike - Mo...

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