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"Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, and released in February 1967 (see 1967 in music) as one side of a double A-sided single, along with Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever". Beatles producer George Martin has stated he believes the pairing of these songs resulted in probably the greatest single ever released by the group. Both songs were later released on the US Magical Mystery Tour album in November 1967. The song features contrasting verse-chorus form and was credited "Lennon-McCartney", although McCartney was the main contributor to the song (Lennon reportedly helped with one of the verses) [1]. The song's title is derived from the name of a street in the band's hometown, Liverpool. The area that surrounds its junction with Smithdown Road is also commonly called Penny Lane. Locally the term "Penny Lane" was the name given to Allerton Road and Smithdown Road and its busy shopping area. Penny Lane is named after James Penny, an 18th century slave trader.[2] Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the album and double EP by the English rock band the Beatles, first released in late 1967 (see 1967 in music). ...
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The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ...
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Sir George Henry Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926 in Highbury, London, England) is sometimes referred to as the fifth Beatle—a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of The Beatles records. ...
Magical Mystery Tour is an album by British rock band The Beatles, first released in late November 1967. ...
Verse-chorus form is a musical form common in popular music and predominate in rock since the 1960s. ...
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Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
James Penny was a Liverpool slaveship owner and anti-abolitionist. ...
McCartney and John Lennon grew up in the area and they would meet at Penny Lane junction to catch a bus into the centre of the city. The street is an important landmark, sought out by most Beatles fans touring Liverpool. In the past, street signs saying "Penny Lane" were constant targets of tourist theft and had to be continually replaced. Eventually, city officials gave up and simply began painting the street name on the sides of buildings. This practice has now stopped (2007) and more thief resistant "Penny Lane" street signs have been installed. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
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Following the success of the double A-side "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby", Brian Epstein inquired if they had any new material available. Therefore, both songs, though recorded during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, were ultimately left off it altogether — a decision George Martin regrets to this day. This single was also the first in the UK to come in a picture sleeve, a practice rarely used there. However, packaging singles in individually designed sleeves was a standard in the US and various other countries (such as Japan). Brian Samuel Epstein (IPA: ) (born in Liverpool, England; 19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was the manager of The Beatles. ...
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The Beatles used a variety of different instruments including drums, guitar, bass, violin, harmonica, cello, and (famously) piccolo trumpet. The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...
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The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ...
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The violoncello, usually abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as in the ch of check), is a bowed stringed instrument, a member of the violin family. ...
Piccolo trumpet in B-flat, with swappable leadpipes to tune the instrument to B-flat (shorter) or A (longer) The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet (picc or pixie in trumpeter slang). ...
Context The barber shop mentioned in the song was, according to McCartney, a shop owned by a Mr. Bioletti, who has claimed to have cut hair for Lennon, McCartney and George Harrison when they were children. The fire station in the song ("It's a clean machine") was not at Penny Lane junction, but a short walk away along Allerton Road. It was around the corner near to where Mather Avenue meets Rose Lane. The station is very close to the site of Quarry Bank School, which Lennon attended. Mather Avenue leads to Forthlin Road, home of McCartney. The line about the banker with a motor car probably refers to an employee of the Penny Lane branch of Barclays Bank, which was situated on one of the corners of the junction. However, there were also two other nearby banks. These were TSB (now Lloyd's TSB) and Martin's Bank (later to be merged into Barclays Bank). Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 443 pixelsFull resolution (996 × 551 pixel, file size: 245 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Penny Lane street sign with a some fan Graffiti I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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A boy visiting a barber A barber (from the Latin barba, beard) is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, give shaves, and trim beards. ...
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943[1][2] – 29 November 2001[3]) was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. ...
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The promotional film for the song was not in fact filmed at Penny Lane — The Beatles were reluctant to travel to Liverpool. Street scenes of the Beatles were actually filmed in and around Angel Lane in London's East End. The outdoor scenes were filmed at Knole Park in Sevenoaks, where the promotional film for "Strawberry Fields Forever" was also shot. Both videos were selected by New York's MoMA as some of the most influential music videos in the late 1960s. Film of Penny Lane was included - with some scenes of green Liverpool buses and a brief overhead view of the 'shelter in the middle of the roundabout', but none of the Beatles attended. The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England. ...
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Sgt. Peppers Bistro in the middle of the roundabout as it appears today The 'shelter in the middle of a roundabout' refers to the old bus shelter, now a cafe/restaurant with a Beatles theme. This is Penny Lane Bus Terminus and is officially on Smithdown Place. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 547 pixelsFull resolution (2384 × 1629 pixel, file size: 482 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Sgt. ...
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Lyrics and music Penny Lane is prime example of McCartney's ability to match tonal movement with lyrical movement.
1. The Verse and Chorus are in the different keys of I, B Major, and VIIb, A Major, respectively. The lyrics reflect the different tonal contexts in how McCartney's relationship with Penny Lane changes from being in the 3rd person in the Verse ("In Penny Lane there is...") to the 1st person in the Chorus ("Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes"); in a sense, the metaphorical 'Penny Lane' is represented by the new key of A Major.
2. An example of McCartney's gift for mirroring the mood of the words in the music is evident in the lyrics "Very strange", which is sung at the end of a short modulatory phrase designed to take us to the new key of VIIb. At the end of the Verse the music lands on B Minor, the parallel minor that will act as the ii of V of the new key of A Major. His choice of key is also related to the lyric; the chorus begins in the new key of the flattened subtonic, chosen for that feeling of relief from humidity that follows a rainstorm. When we consider that other popular songwriters of the 20th Century, for example Bruce Springsteen, rarely stray outside the domain of safe, diatonic harmony, this must certainly have been a strange sound for the listener.
3. Penny Lane's instrumental shows influence of The Beach Boys' song "God Only Knows", released a few months earlier. McCartney has repeatedly listed "God Only Knows" as one of his favourite songs of all time. The links between the two songs are especially noticeable in the four-in-the-bar block chords on piano and the loping rhythm of the bass guitar — both of which were played by McCartney. The piano part was multi-tracked by Mccartney, Lennon and George Martin. 4. An innovative and highly effective feature of the song was the piccolo trumpet solo played by David Mason. This is thought to be the first use of this instrument (a distinctive, speciality instrument, in this case pitched exactly an octave higher than the standard B-flat trumpet) in pop music, where it is now (in certain genres) almost a commonplace. McCartney was dissatisfied with the initial attempts at the song's instrumental fill (one of which is released on Anthology 2), and was inspired to use the instrument after hearing Mason's performance in a BBC radio broadcast of the second Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach [3] [4]. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
God Only Knows is the eighth track on the Pet Sounds album and one of the most widely recognized songs perfomed by American pop band The Beach Boys . ...
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The six Brandenburg concertos (BWV 1046-1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of instrumental works presented by Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, but probably composed earlier. ...
Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it...
Penny Lane today It is a tribute to the creative genius of The Beatles that they were able to fashion a distinguished song from memories of an undistinguished suburban road junction. Prior to securing international fame, Penny Lane's chief renown was as the terminus for several bus routes from the city centre and as the site, in the middle of the roundabout, of a handily located public convenience. The area remained largely unremarkable for the remainder of the 1960s and the 1970s; its most distinguishing feature was, perhaps, the regular arrival of tour buses from which tourists who would alight, take a photograph or two, and then get back on the bus. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 524 pixelsFull resolution (1004 × 658 pixel, file size: 207 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A view down Penny lane I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Towards the end of the 1970s, businesses that set up shop there included Penny Lane Records, Sven Books (Liverpool's first high-street sex shop), and a wine bar known in the early years as Harper's Bizarre, now called Penny Lane Wine Bar. In the mid-1980s, the bus shelter and public convenience were converted into a café that marketed itself as Sgt. Pepper's. Following privatisation, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive bus depot, slightly up the hill past Bioletti's, was knocked down and turned into a shopping precinct complete with a supermarket and a public house.
Since then, the general Penny Lane area has acquired a distinct trendiness and desirability. The "alternative" businesses (wholefood outlets, charity shops), the now expanded array of cafés, bars, bistros, and takeaway food emporiums, as well as handily located traditional businesses (Woolworths, WHSmiths and Clarke's cake shop) make the neighbourhood the most sought-after among Liverpool's large student population. Though the song refers to the "Penny Lane junction" on Smithdown Road, the street itself also leads down at the other end to the University of Liverpool's student halls of residence, near Sefton Park. F.W. Woolworth Company the original USA based chain of high street shops. ...
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In July 2006, a Liverpool Councillor proposed renaming certain street names because they were linked to the slave trade. It was soon discovered that Penny Lane, named after James Penny, a wealthy 18th-century slave ship owner and strong opponent of abolitionism, was one of these streets. Ultimately, city officials decided to forego the name change and re-evaluate the entire renaming process. This story, however, is still being circulated, see The Observer, page 5, 9th July 2006 [5] James Penny was a Liverpool slaveship owner and anti-abolitionist. ...
Slave ships were cargo boats specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly captured African slaves. ...
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- But back to The Beatles: consider if you will, McCartney's "Penny Lane", a portrait of a village virtually teeming with Nowhere Men. Penny Lane is a study in mundanity, the simple sights and sounds of a suburban British neighbourhood; it's also one of the most stunningly gorgeous songs in the world. The descriptions of completely generalized, almost homogenous people and practices off set with small details and punctuated by a central contradiction (example: "And the banker never wears a Mac in the pouring rain; very strange"), the revolving chorus ("And mean while back in Penny Lane is in my ears..."), all set to that rich melody, with the horns, the flute, augh! Splendid! Additionally, it contains the lines that probably most influenced my own artistic point of view: "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes/There beneath the blue suburban skies..." The persistence of memory, the importance of experience, the way the smallest visual and aural details build up to form and inform this amazing thing we call A Life, all summed up in these simplest of lines. Or perhaps I'm imagining things. It's been known to happen.
Facts and figures - The original mix of "Penny Lane" had an additional flourish of piccolo trumpet notes at the end of the song. This mix was quickly superseded by one without the last trumpet passage, but not before a handful of promotional copies had been pressed and sent to radio stations. These recordings were among the rarest and most valuable Beatles collectibles but are now available on the "anthology 2" CD.
- The mysterious lyrics "A four of fish and finger pie" are British slang. "A four of fish" refers to fourpennyworth of fish and chips, while "finger pie" is sexual slang of the time (see above), apparently referring to intimate fondlings between teenagers in the bus shelter, which was a familiar meeting place. The combination of "fish and finger" also puns on fish fingers. The lyrics as printed on the Blue (1967-1970) Album, however, are "Full of fish and finger pies" which are incorrect.
- The song conflates different temporal moments. The sky is referred to as blue, and yet it is raining. Events are apparently occurring in November, since the "pretty nurse" is selling poppies for Remembrance day (11 November), yet the "fish and finger pie" (a reference to heavy petting) is "in summer".
- In August 1987, the piccolo trumpet played by David Mason on "Penny Lane" and two other Beatles tracks ("All You Need Is Love" and "Magical Mystery Tour") was sold in an auction at Sotheby's for $10,846.
- Upon the release of the "Penny Lane" single, Douglas Adams claimed to have beaten up a child who'd heard the song on the radio, reportedly just to get him to hum the tune.
- In the 1968 film Wonderwall, Jane Birkin's character, a suicidal model, is named Penny Lane. Also, in the 2000 film Almost Famous, Kate Hudson's character, the famous "Band Aid" who travels with the band is named Penny Lane. Hudson's character also attempts suicide. Another fictional Penny Lane is a minor character on the animated show Daria.
- Rolling Stone ranked the song at #449 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
- The character Penny in Hanson's 2004 single Penny & Me is a homage to the song.
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External links | v • d • e The Beatles | | Singles (UK - Parlophone, Apple Records) | | 1962: Love Me Do • 1963: Please Please Me, From Me to You, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand • 1964: Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's Night, I Feel Fine • 1965: Ticket to Ride, Help!, Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out • 1966: Paperback Writer, Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine • 1967: Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, Hello Goodbye • 1968: Lady Madonna, Hey Jude • 1969: Get Back / Don't Let Me Down, Ballad of John and Yoko, Something / Come Together • 1970: Let It Be Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. ...
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Cant Buy Me Love is the name of a song written by Paul McCartney (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and released by The Beatles on the A side of their fifth British single, Cant Buy Me Love/You Cant Do That. ...
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Hello Goodbye is a 1967 song by The Beatles. ...
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Im Down is a song by the Beatles written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and first released as the B-side to the single Help! in 1965. ...
Rain is a song by The Beatles, first released in 1966. ...
Magical Mystery Tour track listing Hello, Goodbye (9) Baby, Youre a Rich Man (10) All You Need Is Love (11) Yellow Submarine Songtrack track listing With a Little Help from My Friends (10) Baby, Youre a Rich Man (11) Only a Northern Song (12) Baby Youre a...
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The Inner Light is a song written by George Harrison that was first released by The Beatles as a B-side to Lady Madonna. The lyrics are a rendering of Chapter 47 in the Laozis Dao De Jing, the foundational book of Daoism. ...
Revolution is a song by The Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and attributed to Lennon-McCartney. ...
Old Brown Shoe is a song written by George Harrison that was first released by the Beatles as a B-side to The Ballad of John and Yoko. It is also available on the Beatles compilation albums The Beatles 1967-1970, Hey Jude and Past Masters, Volume Two. ...
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) was issued as the B-side of The Beatles single Let It Be on 6 March 1970. ...
1976: I Should Have Known Better, Twist and Shout • 1982: I'm Happy Just to Dance with You, P.S. I Love You (reissue) • 1995: I'll Follow the Sun / Devil in Her Heart / Boys, Christmas Time (Is Here Again) • 1996: Baby's in Black For the Jim Diamond song, see I Should Have Known Better (Jim Diamond song) I Should Have Known Better is a John Lennon composition credited to Lennon & McCartney, and recorded by The Beatles for the soundtrack to their film A Hard Days Night. I Should Have Known Better is...
Twist and Shout is a song originally by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. ...
Im Happy Just to Dance With You is a song by the Beatles on A Hard Days Night. ...
P.S. I Love You is a Lennon-McCartney song recorded by the Beatles and released on October 5, 1962 as the B-side of their Love Me Do single. ...
Ill Follow the Sun is a song by the Beatles. ...
With the Beatles was The Beatles second album, recorded four months after the bands first album and released in late 1963. ...
Boys is a song by The Beatles on their first album Please Please Me. ...
Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (Harrison / Lennon / McCartney / Starkey) is a holiday song recorded by the Beatles in 1967 and was only released to members of the Beatles fanclub who were willing to order the record through the mail. ...
Babys in Black is a song by The Beatles, released in the United Kingdom on the 1964 album Beatles for Sale, and in the United States on Beatles 65. ...
| | Singles (U.S. - Capitol Records, Apple Records) | | 1963: I Want to Hold Your Hand • 1964: Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's Night, I'll Cry Instead, And I Love Her, Matchbox, I Feel Fine • 1965: Eight Days a Week, Ticket to Ride, Help!, Yesterday, We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper • 1966: Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer, Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine • 1967: Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever, All You Need Is Love, Hello, Goodbye • 1968: Lady Madonna, Hey Jude • 1969: Get Back / Don't Let Me Down, Ballad of John and Yoko, Something / Come Together • 1970: Let It Be, The Long and Winding Road Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...
Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the...
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Cant Buy Me Love is the name of a song written by Paul McCartney (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and released by The Beatles on the A side of their fifth British single, Cant Buy Me Love/You Cant Do That. ...
A Hard Days Night is a 1964 hit song written by John Lennon and credited (as were all their songs) to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, performed by English band The Beatles and produced by George Martin. ...
Ill Cry Instead is a song by The Beatles from their album A Hard Days Night. ...
And I Love Her is a song by The Beatles and is the fifth track on their third album, A Hard Days Night. ...
Matchbox is a rockabilly song credited to Carl Perkins and first recorded by the artist at Sun Records in 1957. ...
I Feel Fine is the name of a song written by John Lennon (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and released in 1964 by The Beatles as the A side of their seventh UK single. ...
Eight Days A Week is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, which was recorded by The Beatles and released on their December 1964 album Beatles For Sale. ...
Ticket to Ride is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 at Abbey Road Studios and released as a single in 1965. ...
Help! is a song by The Beatles. ...
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We Can Work It Out is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon and released by The Beatles as a double A-sided single with Day Tripper. The song is a classic instance of true Lennon-McCartney collaboration, its authors meeting more closely in a single song only...
A day-tripper is a person who visits a tourist destination, tourist attraction, or visitor attraction from home and returns there on the same day - in other words this excursion does not involve a night away from home. ...
Nowhere Man is a song by British 1960s rock group The Beatles, on their hit album Rubber Soul (in the U.S. on the Yesterday . ...
Paperback Writer is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon and released by The Beatles on the A side of their eleventh single. ...
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Lady Madonna is a song by the The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney). ...
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Get Back sessions, see Let It Be (album). ...
For other uses, see Dont Let Me Down. ...
Ballad of John and Yoko is a song released by The Beatles as a single in May 1969. ...
Something is a single released by The Beatles in 1969, and featured on the album Abbey Road. ...
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Let It Be track listing Dig It (5) Let It Be (6) Maggie Mae (7) Let It Be is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney), released by The Beatles as a single in March 1970 and later the same year as the title track of their...
The Long and Winding Road is a pop ballad written by Paul McCartney that originally appeared on The Beatles album Let It Be. ...
1976: Got to Get You into My Life • 1978: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / A Day in the Life • 1982: The Beatles Movie Medley • 1986: Twist and Shout • 1995: Baby It's You, Free as a Bird• 1996: Real Love Got to Get You into My Life is a song by The Beatles on the album Revolver. ...
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A Day in the Life is a song composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by The Beatles for their album Sgt. ...
The Beatles Movie Medley was a compilation of snippets from various Beatles songs. ...
Twist and Shout is a song originally by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. ...
Please Please Me track listing Side one I Saw Her Standing There Misery Anna (Go to Him) Chains Boys Ask Me Why Please Please Me Side two Love Me Do P.S. I Love You Baby Its You Do You Want to Know a Secret A Taste of Honey...
Free As A Bird is a song, single and video released by The Beatles in December 1995 as part of their reunion and promotion around the release of the video documentary Anthology and their Anthology 1 compilation album. ...
Real Love is a song originally written and performed as a demo by John Lennon, and later reworked by the three remaining members of The Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) in late 1995. ...
| | B-sides | | 1963: I Saw Her Standing There • 1964: You Can't Do That, I Should Have Known Better, I'm Happy Just to Dance with You, If I Fell, Slow Down, She's a Woman • 1965: I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, Yes It Is, I'm Down, Act Naturally • 1966: What Goes On, Rain • 1967: Baby You're a Rich Man, I Am the Walrus • 1968: The Inner Light, Revolution • 1969: Old Brown Shoe • 1970: You Know My Name (Look up the Number), For You Blue It has been suggested that I Saw Him Standing There be merged into this article or section. ...
You Cant Do That is a song by The Beatles credited to Lennon & McCartney and released as the B-side of the single Cant Buy Me Love, and also included on the UK album A Hard Days Night and the US album The Beatles Second Album. ...
For the Jim Diamond song, see I Should Have Known Better (Jim Diamond song) I Should Have Known Better is a John Lennon composition credited to Lennon & McCartney, and recorded by The Beatles for the soundtrack to their film A Hard Days Night. I Should Have Known Better is...
Im Happy Just to Dance With You is a song by the Beatles on A Hard Days Night. ...
If I Fell is a song by the Beatles which first appeared on the 1964 album A Hard Days Night. ...
Slow Down is a song covered by the Beatles on the Long Tall Sally EP. The composer was Larry Williams. ...
Shes a Woman is a song by the Beatles. ...
I Dont Want to Spoil the Party is a song by the Beatles on the album Beatles for Sale. ...
Yes It Is is a 1965 Beatles single, which was first released as the B-side of Ticket to Ride. It is distinctive, along with This Boy, as a fine example of The Beatles luscious three-part vocal harmonies. ...
Im Down is a song by the Beatles written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and first released as the B-side to the single Help! in 1965. ...
Act Naturally is a song originally recorded by Buck Owens and covered by The Beatles on the album Help! The Beatles version is sung by Ringo Starr and was performed by the band on The Ed Sullivan Show. ...
What Goes On is a song by the legendary 60s rock group the Beatles, included on their album Rubber Soul. ...
Rain is a song by The Beatles, first released in 1966. ...
Magical Mystery Tour track listing Hello, Goodbye (9) Baby, Youre a Rich Man (10) All You Need Is Love (11) Yellow Submarine Songtrack track listing With a Little Help from My Friends (10) Baby, Youre a Rich Man (11) Only a Northern Song (12) Baby Youre a...
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The Inner Light is a song written by George Harrison that was first released by The Beatles as a B-side to Lady Madonna. The lyrics are a rendering of Chapter 47 in the Laozis Dao De Jing, the foundational book of Daoism. ...
Revolution is a song by The Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and attributed to Lennon-McCartney. ...
Old Brown Shoe is a song written by George Harrison that was first released by the Beatles as a B-side to The Ballad of John and Yoko. It is also available on the Beatles compilation albums The Beatles 1967-1970, Hey Jude and Past Masters, Volume Two. ...
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) was issued as the B-side of The Beatles single Let It Be on 6 March 1970. ...
For You Blue was written by George Harrison for his wife Patti Boyd Harrison, who would be the subject of many of his love songs. ...
1976: Helter Skelter • 1982: I'm Happy Just to Dance with You • 1986: There's a Place • 1995: I'll Follow the Sun / Devil in Her Heart / Boys, I Saw Her Standing There / This Boy / Christmas Time (Is Here Again) • 1996: Baby's in Black / Yellow Submarine / Here, There and Everywhere This article is about the Beatles song. ...
Im Happy Just to Dance With You is a song by the Beatles on A Hard Days Night. ...
Theres A Place is a song by The Beatles from their album Please Please Me. ...
Ill Follow the Sun is a song by the Beatles. ...
With the Beatles was The Beatles second album, recorded four months after the bands first album and released in late 1963. ...
Boys is a song by The Beatles on their first album Please Please Me. ...
It has been suggested that I Saw Him Standing There be merged into this article or section. ...
This Boy is a song by the UK rock band The Beatles. ...
Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (Harrison / Lennon / McCartney / Starkey) is a holiday song recorded by the Beatles in 1967 and was only released to members of the Beatles fanclub who were willing to order the record through the mail. ...
Babys in Black is a song by The Beatles, released in the United Kingdom on the 1964 album Beatles for Sale, and in the United States on Beatles 65. ...
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Here, There and Everywhere is a song by Paul McCartney (though credited to Lennon-McCartney), recorded for The Beatles 1966 album Revolver. ...
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