“Now And Then” is a Beatles single released on 2 November 2023, built around a late-1970s John Lennon home demo and completed decades later by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Apple Corps described it at release as “the last Beatles…
“Nothin’ Shakin’” is a rockabilly cover The Beatles recorded for BBC radio, with George Harrison on lead vocal. The performance was taped on 10 July 1963 for the BBC series Pop Go The Beatles and first broadcast on 23 July…
“Not Guilty” is a George Harrison song written in 1968 and recorded by The Beatles during sessions for The Beatles (White Album). They worked on it heavily in August 1968, but it was left off the finished album despite the…
“Not A Second Time” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) released on With The Beatles (22 November 1963). It is track 13 on the UK album and a sharp early example of Lennon writing a bruised, adult…
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) released in December 1965 on Rubber Soul. It is track two on the UK album and one of the key recordings that signalled The Beatles…
Anthology 1 is The Beatles’ first major archive album from the 1995 Anthology project, spanning rare recordings from 1958-64 and featuring “Free As A Bird”. It sits within the wider Anthology project: a landmark TV documentary series and a companion…
“Nobody’s Child” is a Cy Coben and Mel Foree song best known in Beatles history through the Hamburg recordings made with Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers. It sits in that pre-fame gap where The Beatles were still earning their…
“No Reply” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and the opening track on Beatles for Sale (1964). It is a tight story-song about jealousy and humiliation: the narrator sees the girl he wants, knows she is there,…
“My Bonnie” is the first commercially released record to feature The Beatles, issued in Germany in October 1961 as Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers. At that point they were still a Hamburg club backing band behind Sheridan, so the…
“Mr Moonlight” is a Roy Lee Johnson song best known for The Beatles’ 1964 cover on Beatles for Sale. John Lennon takes the lead vocal and opens the track with a bare, a cappella shout (“Mister… Moonlight!”) before the band…
