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Apple Records singles
- 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 BackOn the 7th of January 1969, Paul McCartney began shaping a melody during unstructured jamming sessions at Twickenham Studios.
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-DaPaul McCartney wrote Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da during the Beatles' stay in Rishikesh, India, in early 1968. Prudence Farrow recalled McCartney, John Lennon and…
- Revolution (Beatles song)On the 17th of March, 25,000 demonstrators marched to the American embassy in London's Grosvenor Square and violently clashed with police.
- Free as a BirdIn 1977, John Lennon recorded a rough demo of Free as a Bird inside his Dakota apartment in New York City. He spoke into the cassette recorder with a thick…
- Give Peace a ChanceJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono stayed in Room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on the 1st of June 1969. A reporter asked what they hoped to achieve by…
- Hey JudeIn May 1968, John Lennon and his wife Cynthia Lennon separated due to his affair with artist Yoko Ono. The following month, Paul McCartney drove out to visit…
- Back in the U.S.S.R.Paul McCartney began writing the song as "I'm Backing the UK" in January 1968. This title came from a national campaign that had gained wide support just…
- Now and Then (Beatles song)John Lennon recorded a five-minute piano demo of Now and Then around 1977 at his home in the Dakota building in New York City.
- Real Love (Beatles song)John Lennon recorded six demos of the song Real Love in 1979 and 1980 using a handheld tape recorder at his home piano. The track began as part of an…
- Instant Karma!In the Danish city of Aalborg, John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent New Year 1970 with artist Tony Cox and his partner Melinde Kendall.