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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 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.
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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.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)"Now and Then" arrived on the 2nd of November 2023 carrying a weight no pop single ever had before: it was billed as the last Beatles song.
- Real Love (Beatles song)Real Love began not as a Beatles song but as a fragment in a stage musical that John Lennon never finished. In 1977, he sat at his home piano and captured…
- Instant Karma!John Lennon woke up on the 27th of January 1970 with the beginnings of a song already forming in his mind. Two days earlier he had returned to London from…