Curated category
Pop ballads
- Here, There and EverywherePaul McCartney sat by the pool at John Lennon's house in Weybridge during early June 1966. He waited for his friend to wake up while strumming a guitar on…
- 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 LifeJohn Lennon claimed he wrote most of the melody for In My Life. Paul McCartney argued that he composed the entire tune himself.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- Give Peace a ChanceJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono stayed in Room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on the 1st of June 1969. A reporter asked what they hoped to achieve by…
- 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…
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)John Lennon began writing the song in January 1965 while staying at Badrutt's Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was on holiday with his wife…