Curated category
1968 songs
- Don't Pass Me By"Don't Pass Me By" took six years to get from Ringo Starr's piano to a recording studio. Starr first played the song for the other Beatles not long after he…
- Helter Skelter (song)'I got blisters on my fingers!' That shout, at the close of 'Helter Skelter,' is one of the most famous unscripted moments in rock history.
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is a song the Beatles nearly tore themselves apart making. Paul McCartney wrote it in Rishikesh, India, in early 1968, while he and his…
- Revolution (Beatles song)"Revolution" arrived in the summer of 1968 as one of the most argued-over pop songs ever released. John Lennon wrote it while the Beatles were studying…
- Hey Jude"Hey Jude" began as a car journey and a father's absence. In June 1968, Paul McCartney drove out to Weybridge to visit a five-year-old boy named Julian…
- Back in the U.S.S.R."Back in the U.S.S.R." opens The Beatles' 1968 double album with the sound of a turboprop aircraft landing on a runway. Before a single lyric is sung, the…
- Dear Prudence"Dear Prudence" was written in early 1968 in the foothills of the Himalayas, far from any recording studio. John Lennon was sitting beneath a jacaranda tree…
- Sexy Sadie"Sexy Sadie" began as something far more blunt: a song called "Maharishi." John Lennon wrote it in India in 1968, bags already packed, ready to leave the…
- Revolution 9"Revolution 9" begins with a voice repeating the words "number nine" as it pans slowly across the stereo field. That voice belonged to an EMI engineer who…
- The Inner Light (song)"The Inner Light" arrived in record shops on the 15th of March 1968, tucked away as the B-side to "Lady Madonna", and most listeners probably flipped the…