“Rip It Up/Shake, Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes (Medley)” is a Beatles Apple Studio jam from 26 January 1969, first released on Anthology 3 in 1996. Rather than a polished studio master built for a 1960s single or album, it…

“Revolution 9” is the Beatles’ longest officially released track, running for more than eight minutes on The Beatles (the “White Album”). It is not a conventional song at all, but a sound collage built from tape loops, spoken fragments, musique…

“Revolution 1” is the slower, bluesier Beatles recording built from John Lennon’s 1968 song “Revolution”. It appears on The Beatles (the “White Album”) and should not be confused with the fast, distorted single version, “Revolution”, released as the B-side of…

This page covers the fast, distorted 1968 Beatles single version of “Revolution”, released as the B-side to “Hey Jude”. Although fans often call it the heavy rock version to separate it from Revolution 1, the original Apple single simply called…

“Real Love” began as a late-period John Lennon song, but it became a Beatles single in March 1996 when Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr completed it for Anthology 2. That gives the track a rare place in the…

“Rain” is the B-side to “Paperback Writer”, released by The Beatles in May 1966 in the United States and in June 1966 in the United Kingdom. Recorded during the Revolver sessions but left off the album, it later found its…

PS I Love You (stylised “P.S. I Love You”) is the B-side of The Beatles’ debut single “Love Me Do”. It also appears on the 1963 album Please Please Me. The song matters because it shows Paul McCartney’s melodic instincts…

“Polythene Pam” is one of John Lennon’s sharpest character sketches on Abbey Road (1969). It flashes by in barely more than a minute, yet it does a remarkable amount of work: it adds bite, Liverpool humour, and sudden street-level chaos…

“Please Please Me” is the song that properly kicked open the door for The Beatles. Released as their second UK single in January 1963, it was sharper, faster, and far more urgent than “Love Me Do”, and it gave the…

“Please Mister Postman” is one of The Beatles’ strongest early cover recordings. They had already been performing it in their stage and BBC repertoire before they cut the studio master, and their 1963 version shows exactly why American girl-group and…