“The Night Before” is a Beatles song from Help! and the soundtrack album of the same name. It sounds bright and catchy on the surface, but it stands out because it mixes sharp romantic disappointment with one of the band’s…
“The Long And Winding Road” is one of Paul McCartney’s most famous Beatles ballads, but it reached the public in complicated form. Although it appeared on Let It Be in 1970, the core performance came from the January 1969 Get…
“The Inner Light” is George Harrison’s song on the reverse side of “Lady Madonna”. That alone makes it important. It was the first Harrison composition to appear on a Beatles single, and it arrived at exactly the point when his…
“The Honeymoon Song” is one of the more unusual tracks on Live At The BBC. It was not a Lennon-McCartney original, and it was never cut for an EMI studio album. Instead, it survives as a single BBC performance from…
“The Hippy Hippy Shake” was never recorded by The Beatles for an EMI studio album, which is exactly why it remains worth covering. The song survives officially through the BBC sessions, where the band tackled Chan Romero’s rock ‘n’ roll…
“The Fool On The Hill” is one of Paul McCartney’s standout songs from Magical Mystery Tour. It appeared in both the 1967 television film and the project’s original record releases, first on the American LP and then on the British…
“The End” is a Paul McCartney-written Beatles song from Abbey Road. It is usually treated as the band’s farewell statement, and for good reason: it closes the great side-two medley with Ringo Starr’s only drum solo on a Beatles recording,…
“The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill” is a John Lennon-written Beatles song from The Beatles (White Album). On the surface it sounds playful and absurd, but the song matters because it turns a real incident from the Beatles’ 1968 stay…
“The Ballad Of John And Yoko” is one of the most unusual Beatles singles for a simple reason: it barely functions like a full-band Beatles record at all. Written by John Lennon in the immediate aftermath of his marriage to…
“That’s All Right (Mama)” is one of the clearest links between the Beatles and the rock and roll records that shaped them. Although it is best known commercially through Live At The BBC, the performance itself dates from the summer…
