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Baroque pop songs

  • In My LifeJohn Lennon claimed he wrote most of the melody for In My Life. Paul McCartney argued that he composed the entire tune himself.
  • 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…
  • Eleanor RigbyPaul McCartney sat at a piano in 1966 and began experimenting with melodies that would eventually become Eleanor Rigby. He initially named the character Ola…
  • 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…