Curated category
Pop ballads
- Here, There and Everywhere"Here, There and Everywhere" is a song Paul McCartney wrote before its subject even woke up. One morning in early June 1966, McCartney sat beside a pool at…
- 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…
- In My Life"In My Life" arrived on Rubber Soul in 1965, and it arrived unlike anything the Beatles had released before. John Lennon called it his "first real major…
- Let It Be (song)"Let It Be" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 6 in the spring of 1970. At the time, no song had ever debuted that high on the chart.
- She's Leaving Home"She's Leaving Home" begins with a door closing quietly in the early morning. A teenager slips out of the house, leaving a note behind.
- Eleanor RigbyEleanor Rigby is a 1966 song by the Beatles, and it arrived on the charts with none of the guitars, drums, or amplified roar the band had built its name on.
- The Long and Winding Road"The Long and Winding Road" arrived as the Beatles were already falling apart. Paul McCartney wrote it at High Park Farm, his property near Campbeltown…
- 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…
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) opens with one of rock music's most carefully evasive lines: "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me." John…