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Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
- She Loves YouJohn Lennon and Paul McCartney began composing She Loves You on the 26th of June 1963 after a concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- 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…
- Roar (song)Katy Perry released the song Roar on the 10th of August 2013. Capitol Records issued the track as the lead single from her fourth studio album Prism.
- Help! (song)John Lennon wrote the lyrics to express his stress after the Beatles' quick rise to success. He told Playboy magazine in 1980 that he was subconsciously…
- 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.
- Ticket to Ride (song)John Lennon claimed the song was three-quarters his own, yet Paul McCartney insisted they wrote it together during a full three-hour session.
- All You Need Is LoveOn the 25th of June 1967, the world watched as the Beatles performed from a London studio. The event was Our World, the first live global television link…
- Paperback WriterPaul McCartney sat in his car driving from London to Surrey on a day in 1965. He thought about the words of his Aunt Lil who had asked him years ago why he…
- 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.
- I Want to Hold Your HandJohn Lennon and Paul McCartney sat in the basement music room of 57 Wimpole Street during late 1963. Margaret Asher taught oboe there, but the small space…
- Billboard Hot 100The first chart published by Billboard magazine appeared in July 1913 under the title Last Week's Ten Best Sellers Among the Popular Songs.
- 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…
- I Will SurviveDino Fekaris stood in his room during the mid-1970s after losing his job at Motown Records. He had spent seven years as a staff writer there before being let…
- Love Me DoThe song began as a scribble in a school notebook, dreaming of stardom. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the track years before forming the Beatles.
- 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…
- Lucy in the Sky with DiamondsIn 1963, three-year-old Julian Lennon showed his father a drawing he had made at nursery school. The paper depicted a classmate named Lucy Vodden with the…