Curated category
Rock 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.
- 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…
- Free as a Bird"Free as a Bird" started in 1977 as an unfinished home recording. John Lennon made it in his and Yoko Ono's apartment in New York's Dakota building.
- 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…
- Space Oddity"Space Oddity" reached British airwaves on the 11th of July, 1969, exactly five days before Apollo 11 lifted off for the Moon.
- 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…
- Now and Then (Beatles song)"Now and Then" arrived on the 2nd of November 2023 carrying a weight no pop single ever had before: it was billed as the last Beatles song.
- I Me Mine"I Me Mine" is a song George Harrison wrote on the night of the 7th of January 1969, after one of the most dispiriting days of his career.