Curated category
1967 songs
- I Am the WalrusJohn Lennon wrote the song to confound listeners who had been affording serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics.
- She's Leaving HomePaul McCartney read a newspaper article in 1963 about a seventeen-year-old named Melanie Coe. She ran away from her home on Stamford Hill and vanished into…
- A Day in the LifeJohn Lennon wrote the melody and most of the lyrics to A Day in the Life in mid-January 1967. He presented the song to Paul McCartney shortly after finishing…
- All You Need Is LoveOn the 25th of June 1967, the world watched as the Beatles performed from a London studio. The event was Our World, the first live global television link…
- Strawberry Fields ForeverJohn Lennon spent his early years in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. He played in the wooded garden behind Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home…
- Flying (Beatles instrumental)The Beatles released an instrumental track called Flying on 1967. This song marked the first time since 1965 that the group wrote a piece without lyrics.
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)On a flight returning to England from Kenya in November 1966, Paul McCartney conceived an idea for an entire album where the Beatles would assume alter-egos.
- Within You Without YouGeorge Harrison stood on a houseboat on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir, during the autumn of 1966. He had traveled there with his wife Pattie Boyd to study…
- Baby, You're a Rich ManJohn Lennon wrote the verses of a song titled One of the Beautiful People after attending an all-night festival at London's Alexandra Palace on the 29th of…
- Penny LanePenny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and…
- Lucy in the Sky with DiamondsIn 1963, three-year-old Julian Lennon showed his father a drawing he had made at nursery school. The paper depicted a classmate named Lucy Vodden with the…