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The Beatles catalog includes so many classic and timeless songs, it's easy to forget that not all of them are gold. As their albums got better, and their creative impulses grew stronger, picking out the lesser numbers gets more difficult, as you'll see in the below list of the Worst Song on Every Beatles Album.
Sometimes it was a hastily written and recorded track to fill out an LP length; other times, it was a cover song that was the most skippable song on an album. There are in-studio goofs, foreign-language remakes of a big hit and solo throwaways that don't even make it to the minute mark found below.
Nobody was spared. Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the most represented – the former's love of old-timey music didn't often fit in with the band's experimental nature; the latter didn't hit his songwriting stride until later – but John Lennon takes the lead on a song or two, and even Ringo Starr can be heard in the background of one track, though the songs in which he sings lead are so few that the law of averages works in his favor here.
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James McCartney showed his support for his famous father's new venture on Monday evening.
James, 45, attended the private view of the Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London alongside his dad, 81, and siblings.
Looking the spitting image of his father, James was sharp in a black suit and white shirt for the star-studded event.
James' sisters Mary, 52, and Stella, 50 were also showing their support alongside the Beatles star's wife Nancy and Ronnie Wood and his wife Sally,
After largely shunning the limelight, even working as a waiter in Brighton, James later followed in his father's musical footsteps.
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Contrary to rumor, there is no reason to believe a member of the band T. Rex helped write Ringo Starr's "Back Off Boogaloo."
Ringo Starr’s “Back Off Boogaloo” was inspired by a 1970s rock star who was close friends with Ringo.
Contrary to rumor, the 1970s rock star in question did not co-write the song.
The tune was Ringo’s highest-charting single in the United Kingdom.
Ringo Starr‘s “Back Off Boogaloo” became one of the most famous songs by a former Beatle. Ringo revealed a rock star from the 1970s inspired the song. In addition, the “Photograph” singer said he had to use a child’s toy to complete the hit.
According to the 2015 book Ringo: With a Little Help, Ringo said Marc Bolan, the lead singer of the glam rock band T. Rex, inspired “Back Off Boogaloo. “Marc was a dear friend who used to come into the office when I was running Apple Movies, a big office in town, and the hang-out for myself, Harry Nilsson, and Keith Moon,” he said.
“We’d go on to various venues, but we’d always start down in the office, and Marc was so much fun; he’d tell us how many he was gonna sell and what chart position he’d have,” he said. “We were only 30, then, but we were looking at him like he was some crazy kid.”
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George Harrison was a spiritual being and the conversations Elton John had with him proved that he was something of a wise sageAfter The Beatles disbanded in 1970, Elton John was the most in-demand artist from the U.K. John developed a friendship with John Lennon, as the pair collaborated on several projects. His relationship with George Harrison was less intimate, but Harrison gave Elton John some advice that led the “Tiny Dancer” singer to call him the ‘sage of The Beatles.’”
During the 1970s ad 1980s, John hit the peak of his fame where he was releasing hits like “Bennie and the Jets,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and “Rocket Man”. However, his fame led to excess as he struggled with addiction to alcohol and drugs. In 1990, he took the first step to recovery by checking in to rehab.
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Cat Stevens called George Harrison an "inspiration of mine" before covering 'Here Comes The Sun' at Glastonbury.
There's a reason why it's called the 'Legend's Slot'.
Every Sunday at the gargantuan Glastonbury Festival, the mid-afternoon set is primed for a bonafide legend of music to work their magic.
After a long weekend of partying, exploring, and immersing in all the festival has to offer, festival-goers need a little lift to propel them through the final night ahead.
There's nothing more revitalising than hearing the songs that have soundtracked our entire lives.
In 2023, the coveted Legend's Slot was handed to Yusuf/Cat Stevens, who certainly got the memo when it came to soothing the masses.
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George Harrison. In a way, he’s the most overlooked of the Fab Four. He played guitar in the band and wrote some popular songs like “Here Comes The Sun,” but he never had the prowess Paul McCartney and John Lennon had, nor the goofiness of Ringo Starr.
But in that way, he actually does stand out. The ever-changing, thoughtful, quiet philosopher king of the band.
With so much talent and success to his name, with such a career both with the Beatles and as a solo artist, one may wonder: what did Harrison, who passed away in 2001 at the age of 58, have to say about his time with the former Mop Tops, what about his career after, spirituality and the world around him?
Here are the 25 best George Harrison quotes.
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With seemingly unstoppable momentum during the summer of 1967, on 18 May The Beatles signed a contract to represent the BBC, and Britain, on Our World, the world’s first live television satellite link-up to be seen by approximately 400 million people across five continents.
The Beatles’ appearance was announced four days later, on 22 May. John Lennon wrote the song ‘All You Need Is Love’ especially for the occasion, to the brief given by the BBC: it had to be simple so that viewers around the world would understand it.
We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that’s what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns.
Our World took place on 25 June 1967. Between the announcement and the broadcast date, The Beatles recorded the rhythm track and some basic vocals.
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Beatlemania swept Australia and New Zealand from June to July in 1964 in what became an iconic pop culture moment.
But a music historian reveals in an upcoming book there was a dark side to the international frenzy over the Liverpool boys whose hits revolutionised music.
In Kenneth Womack's Living the Beatles' Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans, he reveals how one fan tried to commit suicide after failing to get to the bands' hotel room.
Mal was a road manager for the Beatles from 1963 and became their personal assistant when they stopped touring three years later, remaining with them until their break-up in 1970.
One of Mal's diary entries detailed his most 'serious and frightening memory' where he came back to his New Zealand hotel room to find 'all this blood'.
'There's the story of a woman who attempted to commit suicide in [Mal's] hotel room because she couldn't get to the Beatles,' Mr Womack told Daily Mail Australia.
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On June 25, 1967, the Beatles performed their song "All You Need Is Love" for the first time on "Our World," the first live global link-up performative showcase seen by over 23 million people in the United Kingdom and reached upwards of "170 million televisions in 24 nations," according to the BBC.
Today, honor the Beatles and their music, which shattered records and has dominated pop culture for nearly six decades.
Here are some fascinating facts to share with fellow Beatles fans for Global Beatles Day.
1. How many No. 1 hits do the Beatles have?
The Beatles hold the record for most No. 1 hits. In a span of only eight years, the Beatles hit No. 1 with 20 songs.
Two years after the group formed, the Beatles had at least one No. 1 hit every year leading up to their disbanding in 1970.
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Since 1960, The Beatles—four fabulous lads from Liverpool, England—have remained the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the history of music. How John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr managed to make music together remains a mythical truth over half-a-century later. From Please Please Me to Abbey Road (or Let It Be, commercially), the quartet have influenced thousands—likey millions—of people to pick up an instrument and start writing songs. Without the Beatles, the DNA of modern music as we know it would look unrecognizable.
We ranked the 50 best Beatles songs nearly a decade ago, and we decided it was time for an upgrade. Since the band is always present and relevant in the zeitgeist, the cultural consensus on their catalog is constantly shifting. The popularity of albums and tracks are firmly in flux, and our ranking sets out to illustrate that. Notable entries from our 2015 list that didn’t make the cut this time around include “Come Together,” “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Here Comes the Sun,” but we’ve also added a good amount of undersung masterpieces to balance out those losses. Here are our picks for the 30 greatest Beatles songs of all time.
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