“Day Tripper” is a 1965 Beatles single released in the UK as a double A-side with “We Can Work It Out”. Recorded during the Rubber Soul sessions at EMI Studios in London, it pairs an instantly recognisable guitar riff with…

“Crying, Waiting, Hoping” is a Buddy Holly cover that The Beatles recorded for BBC Radio in 1963 and later released on Live At The BBC (1994). It is not a studio album track: it is a live-in-the-studio performance that captures…

“Cry For A Shadow” is a rare early Beatles instrumental: a Harrison-Lennon composition recorded in Hamburg on 22 June 1961 while the band backed Tony Sheridan. It predates Ringo Starr, so Pete Best plays drums, and the recording was produced…

“Can You Take Me Back?” is a short, improvised Paul McCartney fragment that appears as an unlisted coda at the end of Cry Baby Cry on the White Album (1968). It plays like a curtain-call after Lennon’s song, then drops…

“Cry Baby Cry” is a John Lennon-written Beatles track (credited to Lennon-McCartney) from the White Album (1968). It is one of Lennon’s most surreal “story songs”, built around nursery-rhyme imagery and a heavy, late-60s studio atmosphere. The album version famously…

“Come Together” is a John Lennon-written Beatles song, credited to Lennon-McCartney, and the opening track on Abbey Road (1969). It was released as a double A-side single with George Harrison’s “Something” and became a major hit in both the US…

“Come And Get It” is a Paul McCartney composition recorded as a solo demo on 24 July 1969 and later released on Anthology 3 (1996). Although included in The Beatles’ archive releases, no other member of the band performs on…

“Clarabella” is a rock and roll cover that The Beatles recorded for BBC Radio in 1963 and later released on Live At The BBC in 1994. The song was originally recorded by The Jodimars in 1956, but The Beatles reworked…

“Circles” is a George Harrison composition first heard as a solo home demo, recorded during the May 1968 Esher sessions and officially released decades later on The Beatles (White Album) 50th Anniversary Edition (2018). It is not a Beatles studio…

“Christmas Time (Is Here Again)” is a Beatles fan-club recording from 1967: part song, part comedy sketch, built around a repeating chorus and a series of absurd radio-style scenes. It later reached the wider public in 1995 as the B-side…