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British rock-and-roll songs
- Please Please Me (song)John Lennon composed the song in Liverpool during June 1962. He wrote it alone inside his bedroom at Menlove Avenue, which belonged to his aunt.
- 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.
- Get BackOn the 7th of January 1969, Paul McCartney began shaping a melody during unstructured jamming sessions at Twickenham Studios.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.