X-Lists - Xfm's Top Beatles Tracks
The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
The climax to 1967's 'Sgt Pepper' album, this is the perfect collaboration between Lennon and McCartney, plus George Martin's production and arranging genius. Stunning.
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The Beatles - 'All You Need Is Love'
Given the task of writing a song for the world's first satellite link-up show in 1967, John Lennon came up with the finest evocation of the Summer Of Love yet.
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The Beatles - 'Come Together'
Raunchy, rocky, swampy, grungy... one of John Lennon's best late-period Beatles songs, complete with outrageous wordplay and a tight performance.
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The Beatles - 'Eleanor Rigby'
A stark string quarter and Paul McCartney's voice. That's all that was needed to make one of the most progressive pop songs of the 1960s. Unforgettable.
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The Beatles - 'Get Back'
Originally intended as a satire on immigration, McCartney's ode to outsiders became one of the finest Beatles singles of all.
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The Beatles - 'Helter Skelter'
Paul McCartney thought he could make a record that was noiser and more raucous than The Who. He pretty much succeeded with this 'White Album' track.
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The Beatles - 'Here Comes The Sun'
George Harrison skipped a boring Apple business meeting to hide out in Eric Clapton's garden. The sun came out and the result was this sweet song.
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The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
Macca writes a tribute to young Julian Lennon after his dad decided to run off with Yoko. Cue mega-length, mega-hit with huge chorus.
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The Beatles - 'I Am The Walrus'
John Lennon's stream-of-consciousness masterpiece from 1967, pulling every bit of gobbledygook nonsense lyric and studio trick possible.
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The Beatles - 'Let It Be'
Paul McCartney's semi-religious ode to his dead mother Mary, this song became a fitting epitaph to The Beatles' career in 1970.
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The Beatles - 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'
Some startling lyrical imagery peppers (ho ho) this Lennon track. Drugs may have been involved.
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The Beatles - 'Revolution'
The single version, not the slower take from the 'White Album', of course. A fuzzy, screeching boogie that showcases Lennon's developing interest in politics.
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The Beatles - 'Strawberry Fields Forever'
Lennon's first song written after The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, this track harks back to his childhood by dreamily evoking a Liverpool orphanage.
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The Beatles - 'Tomorrow Never Knows'
Having dabbled with the dread drug LSD, Lennon went through the looking glass and pioneered psychedelia in the UK with this envelope-pushing 'Revolver' track.
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