“Octopus’s Garden” is Ringo Starr’s best-known Beatles composition, credited under his real name Richard Starkey and released on Abbey Road in 1969. It is side one’s fifth track, one of only two Beatles songs written solely by Starr, and the…
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is a Paul McCartney-written Beatles song, credited to Lennon-McCartney and released on The Beatles (“The White Album”) in November 1968. Bright, bouncy, and instantly memorable, it sounds effortless on the finished record, but the path to that master…
“Nowhere Man” is a John Lennon-written Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) released on Rubber Soul in December 1965. It is track four on the UK album and one of the earliest Beatles records to step completely outside the usual love-song…
“Now And Then” is a Beatles single released on 2 November 2023, built around a late-1970s John Lennon home demo and completed decades later by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Apple Corps described it at release as “the last Beatles…
“Nothin’ Shakin’” is a rockabilly cover The Beatles recorded for BBC radio, with George Harrison on lead vocal. The performance was taped on 10 July 1963 for the BBC series Pop Go The Beatles and first broadcast on 23 July…
“Not Guilty” is a George Harrison song written in 1968 and recorded by The Beatles during sessions for The Beatles (White Album). They worked on it heavily in August 1968, but it was left off the finished album despite the…
“Not A Second Time” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) released on With The Beatles (22 November 1963). It is track 13 on the UK album and a sharp early example of Lennon writing a bruised, adult…
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) released in December 1965 on Rubber Soul. It is track two on the UK album and one of the key recordings that signalled The Beatles…
“Nobody’s Child” is a Cy Coben and Mel Foree song best known in Beatles history through the Hamburg recordings made with Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers. It sits in that pre-fame gap where The Beatles were still earning their…
“No Reply” is a John Lennon-led Beatles song (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and the opening track on Beatles for Sale (1964). It is a tight story-song about jealousy and humiliation: the narrator sees the girl he wants, knows she is there,…
