“Piggies” is a George Harrison song on The Beatles’ 1968 double album The White Album. On the surface it sounds neat, playful, and almost old-fashioned. Underneath that polished surface, though, Harrison is aiming at greed, class insulation, and the smug…
“Pepperland Laid Waste” is a George Martin instrumental on side two of The Beatles’ 1969 Yellow Submarine soundtrack album. Although it appears on a Beatles release, this is not a Beatles performance. It is part of Martin’s specially recorded orchestral…
“Pepperland” is a George Martin instrumental. It is the opening orchestral cue on side two of the 1969 Yellow Submarine film soundtrack album. Although it appears on a Beatles release, this is not a Beatles performance; it is part of…
“Penny Lane” is a Paul McCartney song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released in February 1967 as one half of The Beatles’ double A-side single with “Strawberry Fields Forever”. It later turned up on major Beatles albums and compilations, but its…
“Paperback Writer” is a Paul McCartney song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released as The Beatles’ eleventh single in 1966. It was a major international number one, later collected on Past Masters and the 1 Album, but its importance goes beyond…
“Ooh My Soul” (stylised “Ooh! My Soul”) is a Beatles cover of Little Richard’s 1958 rock and roll single, recorded for the BBC radio show Pop Go The Beatles in 1963 and first released officially on Live At The BBC…
“Only A Northern Song” is a George Harrison song recorded during the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions in 1967, first heard in the 1968 Yellow Submarine film, and released on the Yellow Submarine album in January 1969. That…
“One After 909” is one of the earliest Lennon-McCartney songs, written as early as 1957 but not officially released until 1970 on Let It Be Album. That alone makes it unusual. Most Beatles songs moved from new idea to finished…
“Old Brown Shoe” is a George Harrison song first released as the B-side of The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969. It later turned up on Past Masters, but it is stronger than its old B-side status suggests. This…
“Oh! Darling” is a Paul McCartney song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released on the 1969 Abbey Road album. It appears as track four on side one and stands out as one of the record’s most direct attempts to channel 1950s…
