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“Twist and Shout” was written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns. It was originally recorded by the Top Notes and then covered by The Isley Brothers. Among others, it was also covered by The Beatles, with John Lennon on the lead vocals, and originally released on their first album “Please Please Me”. The Beatles – [...]

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Ranked as number 384 on Rolling Stone magazine’s of the 500 greatest songs of all time, “Ticket to Ride” was released by the Beatles in 1965 on their album entitled “Help”. Many have come up with theories to exactly what the song’s meaning is. According to Don Short, Ticket to Ride is a phrase coined [...]

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By Guest Author – Ricky Sharples One of the big events in fingerstyle guitar playing many years ago was the publication of a music book called “Beatles For Classical Guitar”. This was the world’s first attempt to mix the simplicity of the Beatles’ tunes with the complexity of classical guitar technique. One of the first [...]

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“A Hard Day’s Night” is the title track to the Beatles first movie of the same name which was released in 1964. According to Ringo during a 1964 interview the title to the song was taken from an expression he used to say. “”We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and [...]

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Dubbed by Frank Sinatra as the greatest love song ever written, “Something” was written by George Harrison for his wife Pattie Boyd. Within her book “Wonderful Tonight”, Pattie had the following to say about the song: “George wrote a song called Something. He told me in a matter-of-fact way that he had written it for [...]

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Originally released as the B-side to “Hey Jude”, “Revolution” can also be found on the Beatles’ “White Album”. Written by John Lennon while he was at a transcendental meditation camp run by the Maharishi, Lennon recorded the vocals to the song while lying on his back in the studio in an effort to have them [...]

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According to John Lennon, he came up with this song while struggling to write a song for the Beatles new album Rubber Soul. During the famous interview with Rolling Stone in 1971 Lennon had this to say about the song: “I remember I was just going through this paranoia trying to write something and nothing [...]

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Recorded on October 12, 1965 for the “Rubber Soul” album and written by John Lennon, ” Norwegian Wood” is the first pop song to feature a sitar. During an interview in the late seventies, John Lennon had the following to say about the song: “I was trying to write about an affair without letting my [...]

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During an interview in 2004 with the Daily Mirror Paul McCartney stated this is one of the few Beatles songs that actually referred to illicit drugs, the drug being acid (LSD). Covered by such artists as Jimi Hendrix (in concert) and James Taylor, Day Tripper is instantly identifiable by the cool main riff that is [...]

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Paul McCartney has often discussed how this song came to him in a dream. The story goes that while spending the night at Jane Asher’s home in London in 1964, he suddenly woke up with the song running through his head. Instead of going back to sleep he immediately got up and played the piece [...]

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