PS I Love You (stylised “P.S. I Love You”) is the B-side of The Beatles’ debut single “Love Me Do”. It also appears on the 1963 album Please Please Me. The song matters because it shows Paul McCartney’s melodic instincts…
Yellow Submarine Songtrack is the Beatles album many listeners expected back in 1969. Released in 1999 to tie in with the restored reissue of the Yellow Submarine film, it strips away George Martin’s orchestral side-two score from the original soundtrack…
“Polythene Pam” is one of John Lennon’s sharpest character sketches on Abbey Road (1969). It flashes by in barely more than a minute, yet it does a remarkable amount of work: it adds bite, Liverpool humour, and sudden street-level chaos…
“Please Please Me” is the song that properly kicked open the door for The Beatles. Released as their second UK single in January 1963, it was sharper, faster, and far more urgent than “Love Me Do”, and it gave the…
“Please Mister Postman” is one of The Beatles’ strongest early cover recordings. They had already been performing it in their stage and BBC repertoire before they cut the studio master, and their 1963 version shows exactly why American girl-group and…
“Piggies” is a George Harrison song on The Beatles’ 1968 double album The White Album. On the surface it sounds neat, playful, and almost old-fashioned. Underneath that polished surface, though, Harrison is aiming at greed, class insulation, and the smug…
“Pepperland Laid Waste” is a George Martin instrumental on side two of The Beatles’ 1969 Yellow Submarine soundtrack album. Although it appears on a Beatles release, this is not a Beatles performance. It is part of Martin’s specially recorded orchestral…
“Pepperland” is a George Martin instrumental. It is the opening orchestral cue on side two of the 1969 Yellow Submarine film soundtrack album. Although it appears on a Beatles release, this is not a Beatles performance; it is part of…
“Penny Lane” is a Paul McCartney song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released in February 1967 as one half of The Beatles’ double A-side single with “Strawberry Fields Forever”. It later turned up on major Beatles albums and compilations, but its…
“Paperback Writer” is a Paul McCartney song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released as The Beatles’ eleventh single in 1966. It was a major international number one, later collected on Past Masters and the 1 Album, but its importance goes beyond…
