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Nov 14, 2020 · Yes It Is. Day Tripper. Rain. Strawberry Fields Forever. Don’t Let Me Down. The Ballad of John and Yoko. You Know My Name (Look up the Number) We are taking a look back through the entire catalogue of John Lennon songs written for The Beatles as part of a complete playlist.
- ‘Day Tripper’
- ‘Revolution 9’
- ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’
- ’ She Said She Said’
- ’Please Please Me’
- ‘Julia’
- ‘Nowhere Man’
- ‘Don’t Let Me Down’
- ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’
- ‘I Want You (She’S So Heavy)’
First up, a song that formed one half of the double-A side that included ‘We Can Work It Out’. Whereas Paul’s offering seems more in line with the left-leaning, folkish approach that defined Rubber Soul, Lennon’s ‘Day Tripper’ seems more influenced by the west-coast surf sound that took hold of California in the 1960s. As Lennon once recalled: ‘Day...
‘Revolution 9’ is less a song and more a meticulously crafted sound collage. Taking inspiration from the musique concrète technique pioneered by French composers in the 1950s, Lennon’s track has been dividing audiences since late 1968. The song is also one of the longest songs in The Beatles catalogue. But, as Lennon himself explained, it could hav...
Although Lennon and McCartney would go on to dismiss this track, it has been intriguing listeners with its cryptic lyrics since its release in 1966. While Lennon never openly discussed the inspiration behind his lyrics, some have said that the song is about the rivalry between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Despite being close friends, Lennon ...
This, the final track fromRevolver, was apparently written in response to an LSD-laced conversation between George Harrison and Peter Fonda. The actor arrived at the LA house The Beatles were renting to find them all, apart from McCartney, tripping on acid. At one point, Fonda had to reassure Harrison, who was having a bad trip, that was was not, i...
The follow-up to The Beatles’ début single ‘Love Me Do’, ‘Please Please Me’ became their first number-one single. It had started life as a blues-infused rip-off of a Roy Orbison track, but, with the help of George Martin, became emblematic of The Beatles’ early sound. Lennon once described the impact of ‘Please Please Me’: “We’d had a top 30 entry ...
This melancholy song was written by Lennon for his biological mother, who died when she was hit by a car outside her home in 1958. Interestingly, It is the only solo Lennon recording in The Beatles’ canon, featuring John on solo acoustic guitar and vocals. The song was written when The Beatles were living in India and studying meditation. Its signa...
Written in isolation during the height of Beatlemania, ‘Nowhere Man’ became the defining track of Rubber Soul. After retreating to his Weybridge, Lennon found himself in the midst of a serious case of writer’s block. “I’d spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good and I finally gave up and lay down,” Lennon re...
Perhaps one of Lennon’s most passionate deliveries came on the band’s Let It Betrack, ‘Don’t Let Me Down’. The song certainly isn’t the most complex piece of music you’ll ever hear, but Lennon’s inner-rocker comes out in full force on this track. It ranks high as one of The Beatles most precious numbers. It’s certainly one of the most impassioned. ...
Though not musically extremely gifted, Lennon knew a hook when he saw one and when he glanced over at a magazine and saw the NRA advert with the tagline: ‘Happiness is a warm gun’ he knew he had something. Of course, McCartney certainly had a hand in the track, the complex time signatures should tell you that, but the motif and the sentiment of the...
This, from 1969’s Abbey Road, is a gargantuan, doom-laden, maelstrom of a song. Clocking in at just under eight minutes, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ marked a return to this straight-to-the-point lyrical style that Lennon had utilised on early Beatles tracks like ‘Love Me Do’. It contains just 14 different words. It was written by Lennon as an ode...
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (1968) It was a close and hard-fought race. A Day In The Life might have been voted the greatest Beatles song, but votes for it were discounted on the basis of it being very much a group effort with McCartney penning the middle section.
- Imagine (Imagine, 1971) Dozens of songs become anthems, but only a hallowed few are elevated to the status of worldwide treasures. John Lennon’s elegant and spellbinding plea for a planet in which all people “can live as one” tops the latter category - and will remain there for as long as this thing called music exists.
- Strawberry Fields Forever (Magical Mystery Tour, 1967) If Hey Jude/Revolution might be pop's greatest ever single, we're going to go out on a limb and say that Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever is absolutely, categorically the high watermark for the pop single as art.
- I Am The Walrus (Magical Mystery Tour, 1967) Recorded just four years after the release of Please Please Me, popular music's most original song drags the listener through the looking glass into a lysergic wonderland.
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- 'Strawberry Fields Forever' From 'Magical Mystery Tour' (1967) Lennon's half of the double A-side about childhood memories was a perfect complement to McCartney's 'Penny Lane.'
- 'Help!' From 'Help!' (1965) Lennon's No. 1 song from the peak of Beatlemania has been interpreted several ways by fans. Is it a plea for a little sanity after two years of craziness?
- 'In My Life' From 'Rubber Soul' (1965) Lennon just turned 25 when the Beatles recorded this tender look back on the "people and things that went before."
- 'Tomorrow Never Knows' From 'Revolver' (1966) After cranking out six albums in three short years, the Beatles took their time with 'Revolver,' perhaps the most significant milestone in a career stuffed with them.
Dec 8, 2023 · John Lennon was slow to begin revealing himself through music. Once he decided to get real, however, the floodgates opened. His songs, both with the Beatles and as a solo artist, could be as frank ...
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