“Ooh My Soul” (stylised “Ooh! My Soul”) is a Beatles cover of Little Richard’s 1958 rock and roll single, recorded for the BBC radio show Pop Go The Beatles in 1963 and first released officially on Live At The BBC…

“Only A Northern Song” is a George Harrison song recorded during the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions in 1967, first heard in the 1968 Yellow Submarine film, and released on the Yellow Submarine album in January 1969. That…

“One After 909” is one of the earliest Lennon-McCartney songs, written as early as 1957 but not officially released until 1970 on Let It Be Album. That alone makes it unusual. Most Beatles songs moved from new idea to finished…

“Old Brown Shoe” is a George Harrison song first released as the B-side of The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969. It later turned up on Past Masters, but it is stronger than its old B-side status suggests. This…

“Oh! Darling” is a Paul McCartney song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released on the 1969 Abbey Road album. It appears as track four on side one and stands out as one of the record’s most direct attempts to channel 1950s…

“Octopus’s Garden” is Ringo Starr’s best-known Beatles composition, credited under his real name Richard Starkey and released on Abbey Road in 1969. It is side one’s fifth track, one of only two Beatles songs written solely by Starr, and the…

“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is a Paul McCartney-written Beatles song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released on The Beatles (“The White Album”) in November 1968. Bright, bouncy, and instantly memorable, it sounds effortless on the finished record, but the path to that master…

“Nowhere Man” is a John Lennon-written Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) released on Rubber Soul in December 1965. It is track four on the UK album and one of the earliest Beatles records to step completely outside the usual love-song…