“Run For Your Life” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song from Rubber Soul, released in December 1965. It is one of the album’s most controversial tracks and one Lennon later spoke about with little affection. That matters, because the song…
“Roll Over Beethoven” is The Beatles’ 1963 cover of Chuck Berry’s 1956 rock and roll classic, released on With The Beatles. It was not included just to pad out an album. It was one of the clearest links between the…
“Rocky Raccoon” is a Paul McCartney-led Beatles story song from the 1968 White Album. At first glance it can look like a throwaway country parody, but that sells it short. It is one of McCartney’s clearest one-act narrative songs, built…
“Rock And Roll Music” is The Beatles’ 1964 cover of Chuck Berry’s 1957 hit, released on Beatles For Sale. It was not just another filler cover. It was one of the clearest examples of the group still leaning on the…
“Rip It Up/Shake, Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes (Medley)” is a Beatles Apple Studio jam from 26 January 1969, first released on Anthology 3 in 1996. Rather than a polished studio master built for a 1960s single or album, it…
“Revolution 9” is the Beatles’ longest officially released track, running for more than eight minutes on The Beatles (the “White Album”). It is not a conventional song at all, but a sound collage built from tape loops, spoken fragments, musique…
“Revolution 1” is the slower, bluesier Beatles recording built from John Lennon’s 1968 song “Revolution”. It appears on The Beatles (the “White Album”) and should not be confused with the fast, distorted single version, “Revolution”, released as the B-side of…
This page covers the fast, distorted 1968 Beatles single version of “Revolution”, released as the B-side to “Hey Jude”. Although fans often call it the heavy rock version to separate it from Revolution 1, the original Apple single simply called…
“Real Love” began as a late-period John Lennon song, but it became a Beatles single in March 1996 when Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr completed it for Anthology 2. That gives the track a rare place in the…
“Rain” is the B-side to “Paperback Writer”, released by The Beatles in May 1966 in the United States and in June 1966 in the United Kingdom. Recorded during the Revolver sessions but left off the album, it later found its…
