Showtune turned into a doo-wop hit for Emile Ford And The Checkmates in 1959 and Shakin’ Stevens in 1987, delivered in drunk crooner style by the Fabs. ‘What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?’ (1916) Beatles kinda killing time at this point. ‘Midnight Special’ (1923)Ĭountry blues jailhouse rocker first officially recorded by Dave ‘Pistol Pete’ Cutrell.
‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ (1968)īlowing off steam, the band run through a comedy take of Paul’s reggae conga, with John singing the chorus as “ Oh by gum”. The one track from John and Paul’s skiffle rock past which sparks some interest – “I wrote that when I was about 15,” says John, and it finally gets its day in the sun on ‘Let It Be’. ‘Won’t You Please Say Goodbye’ (1950s)Īnother rhythm and blues slow-burner from the archives, resembling an early run at ‘Baby’s In Black’. We get barely a snippet of this early McCartney tune, but it sounds as if it might have been a southern blues homage. “I don’t think that ever got there, did it?” Paul chuckles. ‘Because I Know You Love Me So’ (1950s)Ī country and western number from the same bag of discarded ‘50s pre-Beatles compositions. Lacking new songs, a number of tunes from John and Paul’s teenage writing sessions were revisited briefly for possible inclusion, including this skiffle throwaway. ‘Taking A Trip To Carolina’ (1969)Ī steamboat piano ditty Ringo had been working on at home, given a cheery 20-second preview for Paul and George’s amusement. ‘Tea For Two’ (1924)Ī Broadway hit of the ‘20s, given some swing by Paul at the piano as he and a tap-dancing Ringo wait for the others to show up on day two. The lyric sheet reads “A Quarrymen original”. The intimate folk opener of ‘Let It Be’, something of an Everly Brothers tribute, begins life as a Wings-friendly groove rocker with a chorus of “ you and me, Henry Cooper” in the film before evolving – via versions in Dylan, Jamaican, upper class, Scottish, comedy Elvis and ventriloquist accents – into its far more subtle acoustic form. Warming to the Dylan theme, The Beatles would have heard Bob’s prison lament on The Band’s 1968 album ‘Music From Big Pink’. McCartney gives Manfred Mann’s Dylan-penned 1968 hit a brief high-pitched rendering. ‘Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)’ (1968) They were also collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the twentieth century's 100 most influential people.Chuck Berry’s legendary roadhouse rocker and a Hamburg favourite, given a cursory twangle at Twickenham.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and all four main members were inducted individually from 1994 to 2015. They have received seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful artists as of 2017, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with twenty. They are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. The Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 800 million physical and digital albums worldwide. In 1963, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania" as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
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