“Till There Was You” is one of the most revealing cover versions in the Beatles’ early catalogue. Released on With The Beatles in November 1963, it showed that the group could do far more than drive through rock ‘n’ roll…
“Ticket To Ride” is The Beatles’ April 1965 single, with “Yes It Is” on the B-side. It also became one of the key songs tied to Help!, appearing both on the soundtrack album and in one of the film’s best-known…
“Three Cool Cats” is one of the surviving songs from The Beatles’ Decca audition, taped on 1 January 1962 and finally released on Anthology 1 in 1995. Long before that, it had begun life as a Jerry Leiber and Mike…
“This Boy” is the B-side to “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, released in the UK on 29 November 1963 at the point when Beatlemania was turning from a British phenomenon into an international one. In the US, however, the…
“Think For Yourself” is a George Harrison-written Beatles song. It is a sharp, hard-edged contribution to Rubber Soul, released in December 1965. Placed on side one of the UK album, it arrived at the point where Harrison was no longer…
“Things We Said Today” is one of the strongest non-A-side songs in The Beatles’ 1964 catalogue. Released on 10 July 1964 as the B-side of the “A Hard Day’s Night” single and also included on the A Hard Day’s Night…
“There’s A Place” is one of the most revealing originals on Please Please Me. It was recorded on 11 February 1963 during the famous marathon session that produced most of the LP in a single day, and it matters because…
“The Word” is one of the key transition songs on Rubber Soul. It was not released as a single, but it matters because it shows The Beatles moving beyond straightforward love songs and towards the wider ideas that would shape…
“The Sheik Of Araby” is one of the stranger songs in the Beatles’ early story. It comes from the group’s Decca audition on 1 January 1962, where they tried to win a recording contract by mixing current rock and roll,…
“The Saints” is one of the earliest commercially released recordings featuring the Beatles, even if it arrived in slightly disguised form. In Germany, the single was credited to Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, while the UK release later used…
