Ranking the Beatle's Songs

[Ed Vette]

All great choices. Don't forget Lay Dee Madonna...

[Jolly Blue Giant]

Did you know:

The very last song the Beatles wrote (and knew it was the end of their group) was, "The End"
I found that interesting 

[LennG]

Since we are talking Beatles, here are some interesting but mostly unknown facts about them

The band had 19 chart-topping albums with all but three spending multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" spent the most time at No. 1: 15 weeks.

Fans were so relentless in stealing the "Penny Lane" street signs that Liverpool switched to painting the street name directly on buildings rather than replacing them

The Beatles have spent 132 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart – by far, the most of any artist. Garth Brooks occupied the top spot for 52 weeks, the second most.

The Beatles were turned down by Decca Records following an audition on Jan. 1, 1962. According to Beatles manager Brian Epstein, a Decca executive said that "guitar groups are on their way out."


The group's debut album, "Please Please Me," spent 30 weeks in the No. 1 position on the U.K. album charts in 1963 before being replaced by their second release, "With the Beatles."

The Beatles dominated the Billboard Hot 100 the week of April 4, 1964, holding 12 positions on the singles chart, including the entire top five with: "Please Please Me," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "Twist and Shout" and "Can't Buy Me Love."

The Beatles' "Yesterday," written by Paul McCartney, is the most covered song of all time. Performers include Elvis, Boyz II Men, Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight and James Brown have recorded it. According to McCartney, the song came to him in a dream.

he cover of the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band features a number of celebrities and historical personalities including Bob Dylan, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Shirley Temple, among others.

Initially, Mae West refused to have her photo on the album cover, but she changed her mind after the members of the band sent her a personal letter. In another related scenario, Shirley Temple insisted on hearing the album before giving them the go signal to use her image.

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I'll add one more Lenn:

Strawberry Fields went to no.1 in a space of 24 hours...the fastest of any released recording, but that's not all...the flip side (which the Beatles used as a space filler and weren't very serious about it - almost as a joke [just listen to the lyrics...lol]), "I am the Walrus", was no.2 on the Top 100 charts for the next few weeks. I don't know for a fact, but I believe it was the first 45 record that ever had the two sides both no.1 and no.2 at the same time, on the top billboard chart

Strawberry Fields was written and recorded in 1966 as the group was toying with different tones and instruments, not to mention a whole new style of music that was much different from all previous songs they had released. It was so successful, they used that new sound they came up with and came up with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Band, which had tremendous success, which was released in 1967

After that success, they jumped on the bandwagon of the 60s anti-establishment wagon and released "Revolution", "Back in the USSR", etc., in 1968 Then Lennon left his wife for Yoko Ono, and it was pretty much all downhill from there. Freakin women can do that to you 

[LennG]

 I was in
Germany during a lot of the Beatle era and spent a lot of time in London (we were able to get 'hops' into an Air Force base right outside of London). I was in London when Sgt Pepper came out. You couldn't believe the lines at record stores of people trying to get a copy.
IMVHO it is still the greatest album, of all time. I think Rolling Stone also did a top 100/500? and Sgt Pepper came out #1.