“Some Other Guy” is one of the most important Beatles covers on Live At The BBC. Originally released by Richie Barrett in 1962, it was absorbed so quickly into the Liverpool beat scene that it became almost a local anthem….
“Soldier Of Love” is one of the strongest performances on Live At The BBC. Originally recorded by Arthur Alexander in 1962, it was taped by the Beatles for BBC radio in 1963 and finally given an official release in 1994….
“So How Come (No One Loves Me)” is one of the more revealing Beatles covers on Live At The BBC. Originally recorded by the Everly Brothers for their 1960 album A Date With The Everly Brothers, it was taped by…
“Slow Down” is a Larry Williams cover that The Beatles released on the Long Tall Sally EP in 1964. It later resurfaced on Past Masters, and a separate BBC performance appeared on Live At The BBC. That gives the song…
“Sie Liebt Dich” is the German-language version of “She Loves You”, issued as the B-side of “Komm, gib mir deine Hand” in Germany in 1964. At first glance it can look like a novelty, but it is more interesting than…
“Shout” is not a lost Beatles studio master from EMI, but a rare surviving snapshot of the group in full 1964 performance mode. Recorded for the television special Around The Beatles, it catches John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and…
“She’s Leaving Home” is one of the most moving songs on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but it does not work like a typical Beatles love song. Paul McCartney and John Lennon turned a newspaper report about a missing…
“She’s A Woman” was released as the B-side to “I Feel Fine” in late 1964, which is why it does not appear on any of the original twelve UK Beatles albums. Even so, it is far more than a throwaway…
“She Said She Said” is a John Lennon song from The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver. It closes side one, arriving after “Yellow Submarine” and ending that side of the album with one of the band’s most jagged and unsettling psychedelic…
“She Loves You” is one of the defining Beatles records and one of the clearest turning points in the whole story of Beatlemania. Released as a single in August 1963, it turned the group’s rising success into national hysteria in…
