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1969 songs

  • Give It Up or Turnit a Loose"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" arrived in 1969 as a James Brown single, and it went straight to number one on the R&B charts.
  • Something (Beatles song)George Harrison began writing Something in September 1968 during a session for the Beatles' self-titled double album. He worked on the melody at a piano…
  • Let It Be (song)Paul McCartney dreamed of his mother Mary Patricia McCartney in 1956 after she had died of cancer. He was fourteen years old at the time.
  • The Long and Winding RoadPaul McCartney sat at a piano inside High Park Farm, his property near Campbeltown in Scotland. The year was 1968 when he began writing the melody that would…
  • Get Back"Get Back" began not as a song but as an offhand riff played on a Höfner bass at Twickenham Studios on the 7th of January 1969.
  • Give Peace a ChanceOn the 1st of June 1969, in Room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, John Lennon sat on a bed with an acoustic guitar and dozens of journalists…
  • Octopus's GardenOctopus's Garden is the second song Ringo Starr ever wrote, and it came to him not in a recording studio but on a boat belonging to comedian Peter Sellers…
  • Space OddityDavid Bowie released his self-titled debut album through Deram Records in 1967. The record failed to sell and did little to gain him notice.
  • Here Comes the Sun"Here Comes the Sun" was written in a garden in Ewhurst, Surrey, on a day George Harrison decided not to go to work. That simple act of truancy produced one…
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy)"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by the Beatles ends with an act of pure will. On the 20th of August 1969, John Lennon stood in a studio with recording engineer…
  • The Night They Drove Old Dixie DownRobbie Robertson spent eight months developing the music for The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. He played chords repeatedly on a piano in Woodstock, New…
  • Ramble OnThe studio lights flickered over the equipment at Juggy Sound Studio in New York City on the 2nd of June 1969. Jimmy Page stood before his Gibson Les Paul…