“March Of The Meanies” is a George Martin orchestral cue released on the Yellow Submarine album (1969). It is part of the film’s score material (side two of the LP), not a Beatles performance, and it functions as a character…
“Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues” is a Buddy Holly-era rocker that The Beatles only captured on tape as a late-period jam. They recorded it at Apple Studios on 29 January 1969 during the Get Back sessions, and the heavily…
The “Magical Mystery Tour” song is the opening track and theme song for The Beatles’ 1967 TV film of the same name. Unlike the theme songs for A Hard Day’s Night and Help!, it was not released as a single….
“Maggie Mae” is a 40-second Beatles performance on Let It Be (1970) and the second-shortest track on any Beatles studio album (after “Her Majesty” on “Abbey Road“). It is not a finished “song” in the usual sense. It is a…
“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song released in 1967 on the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Credited to Lennon-McCartney, it is one of the defining studio creations of the Sgt Pepper period:…
“Lucille” is a Little Richard rock ‘n’ roll classic from 1957 that The Beatles kept in their live set for years. They never made an Abbey Road studio master, but they did record it twice for BBC radio in 1963,…
“Lovely Rita” is a Paul McCartney-led Beatles song from Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). It is built around a cheeky idea: take the American phrase “meter maid”, translate it into a very British situation, then turn the whole…
“Love You To” is George Harrison’s Indian-influenced Revolver track, and it is the point where the sitar stops being colour and becomes the structure. After the sitar cameo on “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)“, Harrison built “Love You To”…
“Love Of The Loved” is an early Lennon-McCartney composition that The Beatles recorded at their Decca audition in 1962. Despite the song’s place in their pre-fame repertoire, The Beatles have never issued their own recording officially. The song matters because…
“Love Me Do” is The Beatles’ debut single: the first record released under the band name, and the moment their recording career properly began. It came out in the UK on 5 October 1962 with “P.S. I Love You” on…
