The Beatles released “All You Need Is Love” as a single in 1967, and it became an instant global hit. It still stands as a love-and-peace anthem, and it captures the band at their most confident and outward-looking. The song…
“All Together Now” is a Beatles song from the 1969 “Yellow Submarine” album. Paul McCartney wrote it as a simple children’s sing-along, and it does exactly what it sets out to do: it pulls everyone in. Although the recording dates…
“All Things Must Pass” is a George Harrison song, written in 1968. The Beatles worked on it during the Get Back rehearsals in January 1969, but they never completed a finished Beatles master for release. The best-known Beatles-era recording is…
“All My Loving” is a Beatles song from their 1963 album, “With The Beatles”. Paul McCartney wrote it (credited to Lennon-McCartney), and it quickly became one of the stand-out tracks of the early catalogue, even though it was not issued…
“All I’ve Got To Do” is a Beatles song from With The Beatles (1963), written by John Lennon in a Smokey Robinson-influenced style and sung by Lennon. In the United States, it first appeared on Meet The Beatles! in January…
The Beatles played “Ain’t She Sweet” a lot in their early live years, when they were still working out their sound, their setlists, and even their name. It started life as a 1920s standard, but by the time Lennon took…
“Act Naturally” is a cover song the Beatles released on their 1965 album, “Help!”. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos first took it to number one on the US Billboard country chart in 1963, and the Beatles then gave it a…
Like many Beatles songs from this era, “Across The Universe” exists in several officially released forms. On BeatlesFan.Club, the main version we focus on is the one from the original 12 studio albums: the “Let It Be” album (1970). That…
A Taste of Honey is a Beatles recording from their 1963 debut album Please Please Me. It is not an original Lennon-McCartney song, but The Beatles made it their own with Paul McCartney’s warm lead vocal and close harmonies. They…
A lot of bands learn their trade by playing other people’s songs, and early on The Beatles did the same. “A Shot of Rhythm and Blues” is one of their best R&B covers from that period, powered by John Lennon’s…
