“Long, Long, Long” is a George Harrison-written Beatles song from the 1968 double album the White Album. It is quiet, devotional, and deliberately unshowy, but it lands hard because of what surrounds it: the track closes side three, immediately after…
This article covers the Long Tall Sally song recorded by The Beatles in 1964. The band also released a 1964 EP with the same title; for that record, see the Long Tall Sally EP. “Long Tall Sally” is one of…
“Lonesome Tears In My Eyes” is a rockabilly cover performed by The Beatles for BBC radio in 1963 and later released on the 1994 compilation album Live At The BBC. It was taped for the BBC Light Programme series Pop…
Live At The BBC (1994) is a two-disc Beatles album built from BBC radio performances recorded between 1963 and 1965. It captures the band as a working live act: fast tempos, minimal polish, lots of rock ‘n’ roll and R&B…
“Little Child” is a short, punchy Lennon-McCartney original from the 1963 album With The Beatles. John Lennon leads the vocal with Paul McCartney on harmony, and Lennon drives the track with a hard-blown harmonica part that barely lets up for…
“Like Dreamers Do” is an early Paul McCartney composition (credited to Lennon-McCartney) recorded by The Beatles at their Decca audition on 1 January 1962. The performance later received an official release on Anthology 1 (1995), and it captures the pre-fame…
The “Let It Be” song was released as a Beatles single on 6 March 1970, arriving as the group’s original run was collapsing in public and in private. In the UK, it was their final new single of the original…
“Lend Me Your Comb” is a late-1950s rock ‘n’ roll song best known through Carl Perkins’ recording, though it was written by Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, and Ben Weisman. The Beatles kept it in their early stage act and captured…
“Leave My Kitten Alone” is a Beatles cover of a 1959 American R&B single first recorded by Little Willie John. The Beatles cut their version at EMI Studios on 14 August 1964 with John Lennon on lead vocal, but they…
“Lady Madonna” is a Paul McCartney-led Beatles single released in March 1968, backed with George Harrison’s “The Inner Light”. Built around a pounding piano riff and a bluesy, boogie-woogie groove, it is one of the band’s sharpest “back to basics”…
