“Save The Last Dance For Me” belongs on BeatlesFan.Club, but only with the right context. It was not released by the Beatles as a finished standalone studio recording in the usual sense. Instead, it survives from the Get Back sessions…
“I’m Ready (aka Rocker) / Save The Last Dance For Me / Don’t Let Me Down” matters because it is not a polished Beatles studio master in the usual sense. It is a short, loose, highly revealing medley from the…
The Quarrymen matter because they were not just a schoolboy skiffle group that happened to come first. This was the band in which John Lennon learned to lead, in which Paul McCartney entered the picture, and in which the move…
“Fancy My Chances With You” matters because it is not best understood as a lost Beatles song in the usual sense. It is an extremely early Lennon-McCartney composition from the Quarrymen era, remembered from the band’s teenage years and then…
“Can You Dig It?” matters because it lets you hear more of the loose Beatles jamming that fed into the wider “Dig It” story. Rather than standing as a fully finished song in the usual sense, it is best understood…
There is still no officially released Beatles recording called “All For Love”. That is the first thing this page has to make clear. The name survives because it has long been attached to rumours from the mid-1990s Anthology reunion sessions,…
“I’m In Love” matters because it is not just another Lennon-McCartney song handed to somebody else. It is one of the clearest examples of John Lennon writing specifically for another Liverpool act in the Beatles’ own orbit, and it shows…
“Goodbye” matters because it is not just another Lennon-McCartney song given away to another artist. It is a late-period Apple single written by Paul McCartney, produced by McCartney, recorded by Mary Hopkin, and strong enough to become one of the…
“A World Without Love” matters because it is one of the clearest examples of how far the Beatles’ songwriting reached beyond the band’s own records. Paul McCartney wrote it young, the Beatles never recorded it commercially, and Peter and Gordon…
A 1960s EP was not just a small record with a few extra songs thrown on it. In Britain, the format sat between the ordinary 7-inch single and the full LP, usually giving buyers four tracks on one compact 7-inch…
