Can’t Buy Me Love

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

This was the first Beatles single that featured one singer (Paul) with no backup vocals. It appeared twice in their film A Hard Day’s Night—in chase scenes both times. Paul has said that it was his attempt to “write a bluesy mode.” Except for the chorus, the song is in the twelve-bar blues form. So is “You Can’t Do That,” (except for the bridge), which was the flip side of the “Can’t Buy Me Love” single when it was released in Britain in 1964. That year, the Beatles broke all kinds of charting records. One week they held all top five positions on the pop charts, and on another week, their songs occupied fourteen total positions in the Top 100.

Can’t Buy Me Love

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Can’t Buy Me Love

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Across The Universe

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Lennon said that the impetus for this song was his irritation at his wife Cynthia, late at night in bed, “going on and on about something.” She fell asleep and the lyric “Words are flowing out like endless rain…” came to him and demanded he get out of bed and finish the thought. He said it “wrote itself” and turned into “sort of a cosmic song rather than an irritated song.” Written in 1968, it was released on a World Wildlife Fund charity album the next year, and eventually wound up on 1970’s Let It Be, the Beatles’ final album. During the recording process the Beatles wanted some female voices on the chorus, so Paul stepped outside Abbey Road Studios and recruited a few of the fans who were perpetually hanging out there! “Jai guru deva, om” is a Sanskrit mantra of praise for a spiritual master, which John probably learned when the Beatles went to India to meet the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Across The Universe

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Across The Universe

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

This tune was written almost entirely by Lennon in 1965 for the film Help, in what he later described as his “Dylan phase.” During the recording of the song, George Martin asked John to stop singing like Dylan! Except for Paul’s electric bass, the track is entirely acoustic, with John strumming a 12-string guitar. Studio musician, John Scott overdubbed the flute solo, using both a tenor and an alto flute. It was the first time the Beatles were joined by an outside musician since “Love Me Do.”

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Please Please Me

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

In 1963, the Beatles had a following in Liverpool and had enjoyed minor success with their first single, “Love Me Do,” but “Please Please Me” took them to the next level. Conceived and written by Lennon as a slow, dramatic, Roy Orbison-type ballad, George Martin convinced the Beatles to speed it up and have John play the signature riff on the harmonica, doubling George Harrison’s guitar. When they performed it on a popular British TV show, “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” the catchy tune, as well as their mop-top hairstyles and appearance, caused a sensation and the tune went to #1 on the U.K. charts. The song marked the end of Martin’s doubts about the group’s songwriting abilities and Ringo’s drumming. EMI released the first Beatles LP, calling it Please Please Me, and a publishing deal followed, as well as a series of national tours opening for well-known artists, including Roy Orbison!

Please Please Me

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Please Please Me

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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A Hard Day’s Night

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

When the single “A Hard Day’s Night” was released in the U.S. mid-1964, it was a huge hit and marked the beginning of the British Invasion and worldwide Beatlemania. Although the Beatles had already been the top pop group in the U.K. for a year, with multiple hits, their U.S. releases had made no impression on the charts.

Richard Lester, the director of the Beatles’ first film got the movie’s title from an offhand remark made by Ringo after an arduous day of filming: “It’s been a hard day’s night.” The next day, Lennon had the song ready. It took three hours in Abbey Road Studios for the Beatles to transform a tune in John’s head (the lyrics were scribbled on a birthday card a fan wrote to John’s son Julian) into a hit single. Much has been written about the seventh/suspended chord that begins the song; it’s an iconic Beatles moment!

A Hard Day’s Night

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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A Hard Day’s Night

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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She Loves You

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Inspired by a Bobby Rydell song (“Forget Him”), Paul and John began writing “She Loves You” in a hotel room before a concert. It took about five hours to record the song that made the Beatles Britain’s top pop act and paved the way for international success. The group was already a sensation in England before “She Loves You,” but the 1963 release broke several sales records there, and their phrase “Yeah, yeah, yeah” became synonymous with the Beatles and British pop. Oddly, the record flopped in the U.S., and it was nearly a year before “I Want to Hold Your Hand” launched American Beatlemania.

She Loves You

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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She Loves You

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

John began writing “Norwegian Wood” for Rubber Soul, while on a skiing trip. The lyrics obliquely refer to an affair he was having at the time. Many people in England (including Peter Asher, Paul’s then-girlfriend’s brother) were having their places decorated in Norwegian wood, which was cheap pine. Paul, who helped with writing the bridge, confirmed many Beatlemaniacs’ interpretation of the song that the protagonist sets the girl’s house on fire as revenge for making him sleep in the bath. Bob Dylan, on his 1966 Blonde on Blonde album, wrote “4th Time Around” as a kind of send-up, with a melody and lyrical theme resembling “Norwegian Wood.”

George Harrison had picked up a sitar after hearing Indian musicians during the filming of Help, and he tried it out for this song on a whim. Its appearance on Rubber Soul marked the beginning of the western pop music world’s interest in Indian music.

Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)

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In My Life

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

John considered this ballad one of his best works, though Paul claims to have written the melody. Concerning the lyric, John said “It was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously, about my life…a remembrance of friends and lovers of the past.” The song was released in 1965 on the highly acclaimed Rubber Soul LP, a watershed album not just for the Beatles, but for pop music in general for several reasons: It combined many musical genres (rock, soul, bluegrass, and Indian music), it consisted of all original material, and many of the songs had more adventurous and unusual lyrics than most other pop material of the time (there was a distinct Dylan influence). The album also introduced the sitar to pop music on the track “Norwegian Wood”!

In My Life

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In My Life

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Here Comes The Sun

Words and Music by George Harrison

“Here Comes the Sun” is one of two songs George Harrison contributed to the 1969 Abbey Road album. He wrote it in Eric Clapton’s garden, on one of Eric’s guitars, while playing hooky from his boring duties at Apple Records. John didn’t play on the recording, as he was recovering from a car accident at the time. George played a recently-invented Moog synthesizer on the recording, as well as a harmonium. For the signature lick, he played an acoustic guitar, capoed at the seventh fret.

Here Comes The Sun

Words and Music by George Harrison

Here Comes The Sun

Words and Music by George Harrison

Eight Days A Week

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

According to John Lennon, “Eight Days a Week” was the running title for the Beatles’ second movie, before they settled on Help. The song was written in 1964 and was released on Beatles for Sale. It took over seven hours to record it, an unusually long time for the Beatles at that point in their career. Paul says he got the title from his chauffeur, who when asked if he had been working hard, said, “I’ve been working eight days a week, Paul!” The tune was part of a series of twelve successive #1 hits. Around this time, George Martin had said, “The question was not whether a record would get to #1, but how quickly.”

Eight Days A Week

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Eight Days A Week

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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We Can Work It Out

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Written and recorded in 1965 during the Rubber Soul sessions, “We Can Work It Out” was one of three songs inspired by Paul’s then-troubled relationship with girlfriend Jane Asher (“I’m Looking Through You” and “You Won’t See Me” were the other two). Like many musicians, McCartney found it helpful to work out his thoughts by writing them into songs. As he put it, “It saves you going to a psychiatrist.” John contributed to the bridge, coming up with the “Life is very short…” lyric, and George Harrison conceived of the waltz-time interlude. The song was a #1 hit—the last of six in a row in the U.S.—and five years later, Stevie Wonder’s cover version made it a hit again!

We Can Work It Out

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We Can Work It Out

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Yesterday

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

On June 14, 1965, with his steel-stringed acoustic Epiphone guitar tuned down a whole step, Paul McCartney sang and played two takes of “Yesterday.” The other three Beatles were not present, and George Martin talked Paul into adding a string quartet accompaniment to the second take. The result is probably the most recorded popular song ever, with over 2500 cover versions by every singer from Frank Sinatra to Daffy Duck. The melody came to Paul in a dream, and he wasn’t sure whether he remembered it or wrote it, so he spent a month playing the song for friends in the music business and asking if they had ever heard it before. While working on lyrics to a song, the Beatles often had a “dummy lyric” to get things rolling (which they knew they’d eventually replace), and Paul originally called this one “Scrambled Eggs,” because his working lyric was “Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs.” Though it’s written in the popular AABA* form, a very unusual feature of “Yesterday” is that each A section is only seven bars long.

*The typical AABA song format consists of an eight-bar phrase (A), which is repeated with different lyrics, then a bridge (B-which the Beatles called the “middle eight”), and finally a repeat of the A part with different lyrics. This 32-bar format takes you once around the tune.

Yesterday

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Yesterday

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Hey Jude

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

In 1968 while driving his Aston Martin to Cynthia Lennon’s house, Paul wrote “Hey Jude” to console her and John’s son, Julian, during the difficult divorce they were going through. When he showed it to John, Paul mentioned that it was complete except for the line, “The movement you need is on your shoulder.” John said, “That’s the best line in it!” so it stayed in. The record, which included a 36-piece orchestra, was Apple Records’ first release, and it had a record-breaking run as a #1 single in both the U.K. and the U.S., despite the fact that the song was over seven minutes long.

Hey Jude

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Hey Jude

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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And I Love Her

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Written and recorded in 1964, this beautiful ballad (peformed with acoustic guitars) appeared on the Beatles’ third album, A Hard Day’s Night. They play it during a simulated TV broadcast in the film of the same name and it showcases their versatility, as it’s so different from the movie’s other, rock-oriented songs. Paul wrote most of the tune, though he and John collaborated on the bridge (which the Beatles called “the middle eight,” as it is eight bars in length). While recording the song, they composed the middle section as an afterthought during a tea break. George came up with the nylon-string guitar riff that prompted Paul to say, “That’s the song!”

And I Love Her

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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And I Love Her

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Although the song is filled with psychedelic imagery, John and Paul insisted the title’s LSD initials were a coincidence that never occurred to them. The idea for the tune came from John’s son Julian, who described a picture he drew in nursery school as “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” The book Alice in Wonderland (a big influence on John) inspired many of the images in the song. You can find the actual drawing on the internet; nevertheless, the BBC banned the tune for radio airplay, convinced it was a drug song. It appeared on the groundbreaking 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The verses are in waltz time, the chorus in 4/4 time, and the song changes keys several times throughout.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Words and Music by George Harrison

In 1968, inspired by an idea in the I Ching, George Harrison said he “picked up a book at random, opened it, saw ‘gently weeps,’ then laid the book down again and started the song.” While recording the White Album, he asked Eric Clapton to join the Beatles in the studio and play lead guitar, feeling it would cause his band mates to take him and the tune more seriously.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Words and Music by George Harrison

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Words and Music by George Harrison

Michelle

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Inspired by a fingerpicking Chet Atkins tune, “Trambone,” Paul began writing “Michelle” in 1959 on his first guitar (a Zenith acoustic). When he and John were in art school, they’d attend parties held by one of their teachers, and because there was a French Bohemian fad at the time, Paul would play his French-sounding guitar instrumental and fake French words to it. In 1965, John Lennon urged him to finish the song for inclusion on Rubber Soul. A French teacher who was Paul’s friend helped with the non-English lyrics, and John provided a bridge. The song won a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1967, and forty-three years later Paul sang it to Michelle Obama at a White House awards ceremony.

Michelle

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Michelle

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Something

Words and Music by George Harrison

Although Frank Sinatra used to introduce his performance of “Something” as “My favorite Lennon-McCartney song,” George Harrison wrote it on a piano in 1968 during the White Album sessions. He imagined Ray Charles singing it, and eventually it was recorded by Charles, as well as Sinatra, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Smokey Robinson and countless others (it’s the second most-recorded Beatles song, after “Yesterday”). The recording included Billy Preston on organ and a 21-piece orchestra. Released on the 1969 Abbey Road album that also features “Here Comes the Sun,” it’s often cited as one of the Beatles’ best songs.

Something

Words and Music by George Harrison

Something

Words and Music by George Harrison

Strawberry Fields Forever

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

John Lennon grew up near a Salvation Army children’s home, and in the summertime he often used to climb the fence and play with his friends in what Paul described as “John’s secret garden.” In 1966, John wrote the song about Strawberry Fields for possible inclusion in Sgt. Pepper. It was the Beatles’ first recording project since their announcement to George Martin that they would no longer tour and perform live, so they could create recordings that were impossible to do on stage. John’s LSD-induced psychedelic state of mind permeates the lyrics, music, and production of the recording, which includes the recently-invented Mellotron, four trumpets, backwards cymbals, plucked piano, three cellos and a swarmandal, a zither-like Indian instrument played by George… among other things!

After recording the song two ways (an orchestral version and a four Beatles/rock version), John decided he liked them both and asked George Martin to combine them. Informed that they were at different tempos and in different keys, John told Martin “You can do it!” and left the studio. Somehow, Martin did it.

Today, Strawberry Fields is a two and a half acre memorial section of New York’s Central Park dedicated to John, located across from the Dakota Apartments where John and Yoko lived.

Strawberry Fields Forever

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Strawberry Fields Forever

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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If I Fell

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Recorded the same day as “And I Love Her,” “If I Fell” was featured in A Hard Day’s Night (both the film and the soundtrack album), and was on the U.S. Something New LP. John, the chief composer of the song, strummed an acoustic guitar while George played lead licks on an electric twelve-string. The song features a Tin Pan Alley-style introductory verse, written by Paul, who admired what he called the “preamble” that was obligatory in songs of a bygone era. This clever intro modulates (changes keys) up a half step for the main part of the tune. This uke version starts in the key of A-flat and winds up in A.

If I Fell

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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If I Fell

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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When I’m Sixty-Four

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Though the Beatles recorded “When I’m Sixty-Four” in 1966 for Sgt. Pepper, Paul wrote most of the song at age sixteen, drawing inspiration from the popular tunes of the twenties and thirties that his father used to play on the piano during Paul’s childhood. The early, Ringo-less incarnation of the Beatles would play piano and sing it at the Cavern Club (in Liverpool) when there was a power failure. To make the recording sound old-fashioned, George Martin arranged a part with three clarinets. They sped up the recording slightly, raising its pitch a half step, to give the song more energy and simulate Paul’s teenage voice.

When I’m Sixty-Four

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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When I’m Sixty-Four

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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With A Little Help From My Friends

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Lennon and McCartney wrote this one for Ringo in 1967—“pretty well fifty-fifty” according to Paul—based on John’s idea and title, for the Sgt. Pepper album. They were up all night recording it, and it was dawn when Ringo finished the vocal. The overdubbed applause and crowd noises are from a Hollywood Bowl Beatles’ performance.

With A Little Help From My Friends

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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With A Little Help From My Friends

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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I Feel Fine

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

One of John Lennon’s favorite R&B tunes (that they used to cover at the Cavern Club) was Bobby Parker’s “Watch Your Step,” which featured a much-repeated bluesy guitar riff. John wrote “I Feel Fine” (with some help on the bridge from Paul) based on a similar riff. Both tunes shared what Paul called the “What’d I Say” drum groove, at which Ringo excelled. John pointed out that the Allman Brothers copped the “Watch Your Step” lick even closer, with their version of “One Way Out.” He often boasted that the Beatles’ recording, released at the end of 1964, had the first controlled guitar feedback lick, presaging both Hendrix and the Who. (Lennon quipped, “Sounds a bit like an electric razor, doesn’t it?”) It was a lucky accident: While recording “Eight Days a Week,” John leaned his acoustic Gibson guitar (with a pickup on it) against his amp, forgetting to turn off the volume. The resulting gnarly whine captivated him and he spent a few weeks learning how to control it, finally using it as the intro to “I Feel Fine.” The single went to #1 in the U.S. and the U.K.

I Feel Fine

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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I Feel Fine

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Penny Lane

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

John and Paul grew up near a street and shopping area in Liverpool called Penny Lane (named after James Penny, a slave ship owner), which included a depot where Paul would switch buses en route to John’s house. John’s original version of “In My Life” mentioned places he remembered from his childhood, and Paul recounted his reminiscences in this tune, which was intended to be part of the Beatles’ eighth album (the one that became Sgt. Pepper). Instead, it was released in 1967 as the flip side of the “Strawberry Fields Forever” single—a pairing George Martin called the Beatles’ greatest single. Long before MTV and rock videos, the Beatles created promotional films for both songs, for television viewers. The tune, written in two keys (one for the chorus, one for the verse), is nearly all Paul’s work, composed on his psychedelic, painted piano. It includes a rare, baroque piccolo-trumpet solo.

Penny Lane

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Penny Lane

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Here, There And Everywhere

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Lennon and McCartney have both said that “Here, There and Everywhere” was 80 percent written by Paul. The song rounded out the 1966 Revolver album with yet another beautiful, romantic ballad, which they both agreed was one of the best Beatles tunes. Paul admits he was influenced by the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, which featured innovative chord progressions and pretty vocal harmonies. (As in many tunes, George Martin helped the Beatles work out harmony parts.) He also says he tried to sing the tune in the style of Marianne Faithful, a pop singer with several hits (including the Rolling Stones’ “As Tears Go By”) who traveled in the same social circles as the Beatles and the Stones. As in “If I Fell” and “Do You Want to Know a Secret,” Paul wrote a Tin Pan Alley-style intro to this song.

Here, There And Everywhere

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Here, There And Everywhere

Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Can’t Buy Me Love

Can’t Buy Me Love

Can’t Buy Me Love

Across The Universe

Across The Universe

Across The Universe

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

Please Please Me

Please Please Me

Please Please Me

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

She Loves You

She Loves You

She Loves You

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

In My Life

In My Life

In My Life

Here Comes The Sun

Here Comes The Sun

Here Comes The Sun

Eight Days A Week

Eight Days A Week

Eight Days A Week

We Can Work It Out

We Can Work It Out

We Can Work It Out

Yesterday

Yesterday

Yesterday

Hey Jude

Hey Jude

Hey Jude

And I Love Her

And I Love Her

And I Love Her

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Michelle

Michelle

Michelle

Something

Something

Something

Strawberry Fields Forever

Strawberry Fields Forever

Strawberry Fields Forever

If I Fell

If I Fell

If I Fell

When I’m Sixty-Four

When I’m Sixty-Four

When I’m Sixty-Four

With A Little Help From My Friends

With A Little Help From My Friends

With A Little Help From My Friends

I Feel Fine

I Feel Fine

I Feel Fine

Penny Lane

Penny Lane

Penny Lane

Here, There And Everywhere

Here, There And Everywhere

Here, There And Everywhere

Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)