“Sweet Georgia Brown” is one of the stranger recordings linked to the Beatles’ Hamburg years. It was cut with Tony Sheridan while the group were still sometimes billed in Germany as the Beat Brothers, and it survives in two distinct…
“Sweet Little Sixteen” is a Chuck Berry cover that The Beatles carried over from their early live repertoire into BBC radio. The officially released version comes from a July 1963 Pop Go The Beatles performance and later appeared on Live…
“Sure To Fall (In Love With You)” is a Carl Perkins cover that The Beatles kept in their live and radio repertoire for years. Two BBC versions are officially available: one on Live At The BBC and another on On…
“Sun King” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song from Abbey Road. It sits on side two as the second song of the long medley, following “You Never Give Me Your Money” and leading straight into “Mean Mr. Mustard”. That position…
“Strawberry Fields Forever” is one half of The Beatles’ February 1967 double A-side single with “Penny Lane”. John Lennon drew its title from Strawberry Field, the Salvation Army children’s home near his childhood home in Woolton, Liverpool, but the finished…
“Blue Moon” by The Beatles is not a White Album song in the formal sense. It is a brief cover fragment from 16 September 1968, taped during the long White Album sessions and left officially unreleased until the 2018 anniversary…
“Los Paranoias” is not a finished Beatles song in the normal sense. It is an improvised studio jam taped on 16 September 1968 during the White Album sessions, then left unreleased until Anthology 3 brought part of it out in…
“Step Inside Love” has an unusual place in the Beatles story. Paul McCartney wrote it for fellow Liverpudlian Cilla Black, who turned it into a UK Top 10 hit in 1968, but The Beatles also left behind a loose studio…
“Sour Milk Sea” is one of the most intriguing George Harrison songs the Beatles never properly finished. The band’s only official version is the Esher demo, taped at Harrison’s home in 1968 and finally released on the White Album 50th…
“Something” is one of the defining songs of The Beatles’ final period and the record that proved George Harrison could stand on equal ground with John Lennon and Paul McCartney as a songwriter. First released on Abbey Road in September…
