Top Songs You Didnt Know Were By The Beatles

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[@WatchMojoUK]

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[@sweet--richard.4981]

Macca

[@user-rc2xt1gt7b]

billy shears

[@HankHopeless]

Lennon, McCartney and Harrison all had different talents, so it's an impossible question to want an answer for. If You want a " true " answer to that, You'll have to narrow down the question considerably....

[@tomrogerlilleby2890]

Paul McCartney was the most talented Entertainer of them. John Lennon had a bigger talent for being a Rock Star. George Harrison come in on a good third place. And Ringo's talent was mainly the drums department.

[@Zirin-md7pg]

That's like asking what's your favorite food,lol! Love them all!! Whatever suits my taste at that time, they're all EXCEPTIONAL, AMAZING PEOPLE AND MUSICIANS,can't pick just one have to have them all

[@bobbybigboyyes]

By late 1974, Bowie was staying in New York City, where he met John Lennon during his "lost weekend" period of estrangement. Shortly after Lennon reunited with his wife Yoko Ono, the pair jammed together, leading to a one-day session at Electric Lady Studios in January 1975. There, Carlos Alomar had developed a guitar riff for Bowie's cover of "Footstompin'" by the Flares, which Bowie thought was "a waste" to give to a cover. Lennon, who was in the studio with them, came up with the hook when he started to sing "aim" over the riff, which Bowie turned into "Fame" and thereafter, according to Marc Spitz, wrote the rest of the lyrics to the song with Lennon. However, according to Doggett, Lennon made the "briefest lyrical contributions" that was "enough" to give him co-writing credit. Bowie later said that Lennon was the "energy" and the "inspiration" for "Fame", and that's why he received a co-writing credit. Lennon stated in a 1980 interview: "We took some Stevie Wonder middle eight and did it backwards, you know, and we made a record out of it!"

[@finch45lear]

One of my favorites is Ringl’s “It Don’t Come Easy’ written by George.

[@robertl8481]

But not a Beatles song.

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

@finch45lear I love that song. Have you ever heard George's demo? It would have been so cool if they would have decided to remix it into a duet with them switching off lead vocals.

[@olgadefeo598]

The Beatles are the gift that keeps on giving ❤

[@midnite_rambler]

I honestly never understood the Beatles/Stones rivalry, where you either liked one or the other. I loved both. They were both very different musically, but both were incredible at the time. Both bands were massive influences on my developing musical tastes throughout the 60's.

[@rafaa151]

I think that the "rivalry" was a "marketing strategy", not a real rivalry.

[@midnite_rambler]

@@rafaa151 Oh no. There really was a "rivalry". Even to this day you hear people say they were either Beatles or Stones fans. The Beatles were the nice, fun-loving ones. While the Stones were the naughty boys.

[@fredbloggs6080]

@@midnite_rambler Didn't the press try to concoct rivalries between not only the Beatles and the Stones, but the Dave Clark Five and also the Kinks--not sure about Herman's Hermits. I don't think Freddie and the Dreamers was included.

[@helgardforche3400]

Die Rivalität bestand eher zwischen den jeweiligen Fans. Ich bin unheilbar an Beatlemania erkrankt, aber einige Stones Songs mag ich auch. Die Beatles und die Stones haben sich ganz gut verstanden.

[@airfriedquadsbw]

I have to say The White Album was my first record. Sargent Peppers was 2 Magical Mystery Tour 3. And I enjoy some stones, but they are not even in my top 20 of bands, And I only had 1 album I bought in my teens, and it just didn't get played.i liked The Who way more than the stones. It isnt a Beatles vs Stones at all. Just a preference in that distinct sound. It just came to mind, I hate RUSH because of that distinctive sound they have. Wonder if other Beatles over stone people feel the same about Rush.

[@w.neller33]

How people can say the Beatles aren’t one of the all-timers is fucking beyond me.

[@WatchMojoUK]

They are unmatched

[@shell150675]

Agreed! Even if they don't like their music (wtf!) they have to admit they are the most influential music act of all time.

[@Beatlesnut1965]

The greatest ever, period!

[@MaryBywaters]

@@Beatlesnut1965 Well I'm a Beatles fan but Floyd are up there too. This has blown me away though. Wow.

[@jasonchambers4495]

"One of"?

[@CashelOConnolly]

George Harrison had lovely hair

[@julianaylor4351]

My school friends thought my older brother was good looking, when they saw him in the 1970s, because he looked like George Harrison.

[@stevenskorich7878]

Let's not forget "It Don't Come Easy", which George wrote and gave to Ringo to record. Great song!

[@michaeldiaz6224]

Why wasn't Ringo Starr included in the photo? The Beatles had four members, not three.

[@StuartQuinn]

Presumably because he didn't write any songs recorded by other artists.

[@michaeldiaz6224]

@@StuartQuinn Probably so, then just type Beatles instead of showing only the other three members of the band. It makes Ringo look like a meaningless, useless member of the Beatles.

[@MrJacobHart]

Justice for Ringo

[@md-ps2hx]

Probably because he's the ONLY surviving Beatle left. (Faul McCartney doesn't count)

[@user-rc2xt1gt7b]

five including faul.

[@alanr4447a]

4:20 I doubt very much Lennon was the main writer of "That Means a Lot" - that song is a track on the Beatles' _Anthology 2,_ sung by PAUL.

[@LeChaunce]

It's a Paul song. This video is riddled with errors. "Hello Little Girl", one of John's first compositions written as a teenager was written for the Fourmost? Pfft.

[@JonahNelson7]

@@LeChaunceyeah. The thing he said about John’s fingerprints being all over the song is just more weird anti-Paul bullshit

[@cturn9494]

Can you even ‘imagine’ what music we could of had if John wasn’t murdered.

[@tylsimys67]

Maybe even more unforgettable LiveAid'85 than with Queen.

[@marcovandyck1126]

I think that so much !

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

Years ago I heard a different version of "Cat Call" which at the time went under the name "Catwalk" and had sort of a late 50's guitar arrangement reminicent of The Shadows.

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

"It's For You" is on "Three Dog Night Captured Live at the Forum" but it sounds totally different . James Brown sampled "Fame". "Come and Get It" is on one of the Beatle Anthology collections.

[@georgecourtney5878]

Are you thinking of if not for you a Harrison song

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

@@georgecourtney5878 this song is called "It's For You" and is credited to Lennon and McCartney. And "If Not For You" is a Bob Dylan composition that Harrison recorded...Harrison didn't write it but I love Harrison's version more than Dylan's.

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

12:00 Wossy is very young here. McCartney also wrote the Phoebe Snow hit "Every Night".

[@Elephant2024-wi2li]

Never knew that Keith Moon recorded 'Move Over Miss L.' Only familiar with John Lennon's version. Quite remarkable that the Beatles established Apple Records not only to record their own music, but also help other less well known artists get their music out there. Do not know of any group before or since offhand who has ever done that.

[@peterbland7227]

The Rolling Stones/Beatles kerfuffle was just a promotional gambit by the Stones management.

[@Michael-te6ly]

Come and Get it - Badfinger (by Paul); Step Inside Love - Cilla Black, (by Paul)

[@kellystanton7378]

Thanks for this video, very informative! Love LOVE both Lennon's and McCartney's talents, and it's so fun to learn they contributed so much to other artists' hits, that's amazing! None of the Lennon-penned tunes came as any surprise to me. But Lennon never had quite as much of a musical head on him, tune-wise, even George Martin said so. Their gifts were: Lennon lyrics - Mac melodies. I've long heard it said you can read Lennon, and you can hum McCartney - I think that's true! But that's why they made such a good team - so awesome!!!!!

[@wendyhamm9722]

I love the band Badfinger! They were considered the second coming of the Beatles. On purpose.

[@ebarteldes]

You can hear John's voice on "Fame"

[@user-ub6te5uw9z]

Cilla was a great friend with the beatles from the cavern

[@djdissi]

Yes, and she and Ringo had known each other since they were kids

[@strathman7501]

This video is all over the place. It get's it wrong right off the bat, headlining It's For You as a Lennon composition. It was basically by McCartney. He demo'd it and brought it in to the studio. John was present at the studio with Cilla and George Martin and they all made arrangement suggestions but it was a McCartney song. You've got I Call Your Name confused with I'll Keep You Satisified. You say they recorded the latter themselves after being underwhelmed by B J Kramer's version, but that was I Call Your Name, which BTW wasn't released "the album Long Tall Sally in the UK". That album was a Canadian excusive. I Call Your Name was only on an EP in the UK That Means a Lot - with John's picture shown all the way through, grossly misleading. It's well known to be a mainly McCartney effort. "It's clear to any fan John's finger prints are all over it" ?? I don't think so. I Wanna Be Your Man - "while many credit Paul as being the primary songwriter, the story goes that it was actually John who finalised the track", inventing a nonexistent contradiction and implying it was mainly John on his own. More BS. Whose story? According to John it was "a kind of *lick Paul had* ...I think *we* finished it off for the Stones… Mick and Keith had heard that we had an unfinished song *Paul had this bit and we needed another verse* or something. We sort of played it roughly to them and they said, ‘Yeah, OK, that’s our style.’ So *Paul and I just went off in the corner of the room and finished the song off* Fourth of July - "never been officially credited to McCartney" You can listen to his home demo. Find it on KZbin.

[@shemanic1]

The Beatles had many facets, Lennon's music was always grittier, McCartney's sweeter. Between them & George's eastern influence & Ringo's solid drumming they often hit heights no one else has attained. Great early blues/rock, beautiful hippy era music, soothing ballads & a strong Message here & there.

[@fredbloggs6080]

Lennon had some lyrical songs also, like Here, There and Everywhere, and Imagine, And McCartney had gritty songs also, like Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, and, at least if you're talking about themes, For No One, Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, and The Long and Winding Road.

[@user-rc2xt1gt7b]

all done by session musicians

[@fredbloggs6080]

@@user-rc2xt1gt7b Did the session musicians write their songs too? I know George Martin influenced their sound later in their career.

[@user-rc2xt1gt7b]

@@fredbloggs6080 they had plenty of help fred.

[@Blurb777]

Mull of Kintyre is my absolutely, hands down favorite song by anything Beatle related. I don't care much for any of their other songs, but Mull of Kintyre is gold, by Paul and after he left the Beatles. Marriage to Linda was good for him.

[@betsyduane3461]

Lennon made the "briefest lyrical contributions" that was "enough" to give him co-writing credit on Fame. Bowie later said that Lennon was the "energy" and the "inspiration" for "Fame", and that's why he received a co-writing credit.

[@evabelvain2569]

I would expect that Bowie was really thrilled to have Lennon's name attached to the writing credit 4 Fame. Who wouldn't be?

[@alanr4447a]

32:55 "I Call Your Name" is not the same song as "I'll Keep You Satisfied".

[@mickeyray3793]

I can just hear the Beatles singing Bad To Me as a group. It would have been a great Beatles tune, but they were so prolific they could afford to give away some of their best songs!! 😅

[@michellescheunemann9784]

John's demo of the song is out there. It's the closest you're gonna get.

[@JonahNelson7]

There’s a low quality (soundwise) recording out there. Someone even put more instruments on it on KZbin. It’s pretty nice

[@TheNewSoda]

My favorite is always John Lennon even though he is an angel and a bastard George hit the nail on the head with that one. But I do wonder what songs Ringo gave away if any

[@joealomar-cu3qb]

when The Beatles broke up none were even 30 yet imagine if they had stuck it out all those 70's classics done by them (band on the run,imagine,it don't come easy, give me love), the sales figures would take an already staggering total to the trillions

[@jpwartist]

I thought A World Without Love by Peter and Gordon would have been on here. They got it to number one but McCartney wrote it when he was 16 i think. Lennon didn't like it so he gave it away.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Why does everyone leave Carlos Alomar out when they mention "Fame?"

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

He wasn’t Fame-ous.

[@opietaylor2554]

Yeah, this video doesn't even mention ELO, Jeffrey Lynne was considered the 5th Beatle, listen to "so serious" Ringo, and George Harrison singing back up, I know someone had to help Jeff write "shangri-la" the ending of "Mr. Blue sky is John Lennon fingerprint,

[@dr.gusgreenfield7765]

I was understanding that Ringo wrote “I want to be your man” hmmm interesting. Dr Gus Greenfield approved.

[@robertengland8769]

I can tell by some songs that they have a Beatles flare to them. Yes, The Beatles were that good.

[@julianaylor4351]

I am a record collector and Long Tally Sally is an EP that means an extended play single, with usually two tracks on either side, not an LP or album, which a 12" record usually containing more than four tracks. Vinyl records came in several types, the single, the EP, the LP ( also referred to as an album ), the 12" single and the much rarer 33rpm single, of which I have an example, Temptation by New Order.

[@johnbyrnes7912]

Brian Epstein gave George Martin a 10 inch acetate of Beatle songs to stimulate his interest. As I recall it was Hello Little Girl / Till There Was You. I bet that's worth a bob or two now! 😹

[@julianaylor4351]

@@johnbyrnes7912 The 10" was a format that was done for jazz recordings, when records were on shellac, the material used before vinyl existed. Maybe Martin's family still own that acetate, or else it's in EMI's archives.

[@darwinxke2827]

Then there are 78’s, that just messes with your head. Well, mine anyways. 👍🏼🇺🇸✌🏼

[@julianaylor4351]

@@darwinxke2827 78 rpm sometimes appears on turntables, both modern retros and original old ones. I have a couple, but they are antique like all 78s and made of shellac. A neighbour abandoned them. They are jazz records. I don't play them, too fragile. Here's something that will mess with your head...play Bruce Springsteen too fast and he sounds like Dolly Parton, and play Dolly Parton too slow and she sounds like Bruce Springsteen. 😆

[@johnberkley6942]

I was a Beatle freak when growing up but I have to acknowledge that the Stones' version of Wanna Be Your Man is better than the Beatles version. And not just because there's no contest between Ringo and Mick, but there's a more groovy energy in the Stones arrangement.

[@josephcooter5763]

Actually, I knew that Fame was co-written by Lennon and David Bowie, I also knew that Bad to Me was a Lennon-Mccartney. I also knew that Come and get it was written by McCartney. For Godsake it is on the Third Anthology Album

[@stevejohns8753]

Hope teacher gives you gold star.

[@kwgm8578]

Did you know that Ringo co-starred with Peter Sellers in the film that featured this song?

[@josephcooter5763]

@kwgm8578 I knew Ringo appeared in the Magic Christian yes. I even saw a brief clip of the film on a vhs tape that I once had. Didn't, however, know that Come And Get it was featured in the film. That said I've heard Macca's version on Anthology 3 and it is probably better than Bad Fingers version.

[@kwgm8578]

@@josephcooter5763 It was a great film for the time, although, I'm not certain that it aged well. Having first heard the tune on a low-fi car radio, I thought Paul sang it until I saw the film and heard the recording in a theater.

[@helgardforche3400]

"A world without Love" Ich dachte schon immer, daß dieser Song sehr nach Lennon/McCartney klingt. ❤

[@magneto7930]

By the Beatles? You mean written by them. And yes, we did know all this already.

[@JonahNelson7]

That’s what “by” usually means for songs. Doesn’t have to also mean they recorded them

[@jasonbean2764]

The Beatles, The Stones, The WHO!:)

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

I’m in Love and Bad To Me are so beautiful.

[@scottpierce4259]

George was my favorite beatle but I really loved Goodbye I didn't like those were the days hopkin's debut hit. At first I thought she had no talent but I'd missed the point of Apple anyway, that was to help artists launch careers with a big boost from the Fab Four Money mill. Paul's song, its versatility, his genius for pop radio friendly tunes and innovation never serm to fail him.

[@TomLifesTooShort]

This video is misleading. These songs are not "by the Beatles" they were written by one of the Beatles. The titles suggests these songs are inspired by Beatles songs or covers that we didn't realise

[@DaveMcIroy]

It's not misleading, it's a fucking lie.

[@fromchomleystreet]

How on earth does it suggest they are songs “inspired by the Beatles”? I’m not sure what it is you find misleading. When you say a song is “by” so-and-so, I take that to mean that so-and-so wrote that song. What else could that possibly mean? In each case, the songwriter was a Beatle, ergo they were all written by Beatles. What’s the false claim there? That they weren’t written by ALL the Beatles? No, they weren’t written by MULTIPLE Beatles, but neither were the vast majority of songs the Beatles actually recorded themselves.

[@DaveMcIroy]

@@fromchomleystreet, are you incapable of seeing a difference between 1 and 4 persons? Cause it looks like. Or are you just US american and therefore unable for basic math?

[@StuartQuinn]

The title is a little misleading, but as soon as Fame came up, I got the concept.

[@louis-8728]

@@DaveMcIroyshut up and now to the beatles

[@nazfrde]

The title of this should be "Top Songs That Most People Know Were Written Or Co-written By At Least One Beatle or Former Beatle"

[@StanScott-wi8cj]

bro didn't even include ringo in the thumbnail😭

[@comoyoko]

Actually ‘That Means A Lot’ is featured on The Anthology Part 2. Paul is singing it live and it sounds very much a Paul song and he sings it with bravado in typical Paul fashion. It’s really something. The fact that he’s singing it suggests he wrote it.

[@ebarteldes]

That Means a Lot was on Anthology 2

[@benjamingallaher8359]

I'm sure that everybody knows this, but "Fame '90" (released with a 1990 compilation) is what is used here. I have a strong preference for the original from 1975.

[@sherwintavarez8539]

You guys should’ve mentioned Paul’s unexpected collabs with Kanye, as his contributions were great

[@simbad909]

Fun stuff

[@gnp253]

Quite a few throw-away tunes.

[@produccionindependiente]

And the Playlist Man?

[@minsterhill]

background music way too loud but cool episode thanks!

[@gtripmusic2906]

Why are you using the crappy 80s version of Fame?

[@gdholmfirth]

Well, I guess SOME people didn't know.

[@ItzRobbie05]

I knew that each of these were WRITTEN by a Beatle

[@ebarteldes]

Come and Get it later appeared on Anthology 3

[@scottsheehan1596]

according to google,anyone who had a heart was written by burt Bacharach and hal david for dionne warwick

[@tiggyt2261]

Musician turned killer 😂😂😂

[@normatible9795]

Incorrect title..these are songs written by the beatles members for other artists like Badfinger, ringo starr, gerry and the pacemakers, mary hopkins etc

[@ZodyZody]

The simple fact that you cut out Ringo's head clued me into skipping this video.

[@RickHardcore]

wow, cool

[@gabrielamontero3868]

Wow! i didn’t know!

[@joegordon2915]

Step inside love? Four five seconds?

[@StuartQuinn]

You knew those ones, so they couldn't be included 😜

[@studerj37music87]

It’s for you was written by Paul , not John: “I wrote it for Cilla. That’s not a bad little song. I remember when we first went over to America, plugging it to all these DJs, we used to talk to endlessly, ‘Look, there’s this girl singer in our stable and you should listen out for this song.’ It didn’t do very well. I ended up writing a few songs for Cilla, actually. Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles

[@justintyme2451]

Aside from "FAME", it sounds like they took a lot of their rejects, and gave them to someone else.

[@williamcapp448]

Very Lennon oriented. Paul had some greats

[@JonahNelson7]

Yes

[@HardcoreZen]

Phil Spector never killed anyone.

[@betsyduane3461]

WRONG. Bowie worked with Lennon again to record a cover of Lennon's Beatles song "Across the Universe"; Lennon played rhythm guitar on the cover.

[@user-qb1sm3rk9r]

Pete Best just phoned me and told me to let everyone here spare a thought for him. He could have been a somebody, he could have been a Beatle. But he got betrayed by the people he thought were his friends. HE could have been the drummer, not Ringo. They were jealous of his good looks. He's been barely scraping by for over 50 years.

[@ValensRocks]

Who’s that guy in the middle?

[@brettsteele7027]

Billy J Kramer looks like Bradley Coopers dad.

[@desolation2row]

Actually, We did know ......

[@farquell5782]

"Fame" and "come and get it". I just saved you 37:30 of your life

[@rondunn4336]

The Beatles..three musicians and a drummer?

[@HShango]

Weird title

[@joeblack8915]

The comments that argue over who is the best this-that-or-the-other are childish and pathetic. Music is subjective, so who or what an individual thinks is 'the best' is purely a personal opinion. Some will agree with them, others won't. Just enjoy whatever genre of music, band, solo artist, etc, that you like. Why the need to prove that your choice is superior, or the need to have others agree with it? As I said, childish and, more to the point, pointless. Grow up, for Pete's sake.

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

For Pete Best’s sake.

[@michaelende8167]

The Beatles most definitely did not record and release I’ll Be Satisfied. Get your facts straight.

[@sophiabee8924]

Seriously? From Mojo? Whoever wrote this should be sent to the naughty step pronto.

[@stevefreary7449]

Paul McCartney easily

[@slimjim4239]

i did

[@danny1959]

Click bait title is click bait.

[@kurikokaleidoscope]

What IS THIS???

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

I bet this doesn't have "It's for you" sung by Cilla Black. 60s McCartney genius. But I'm not going to watch this video.

[@julianaylor4351]

The Beatles is the collective term for all four members, so claiming the title of the video is just misleading is just pedantry, which is sign of someone whose knowledge of English grammar is lacking. I have grade A O Level English Language, which is a higher qualification than the modern GCSES, because it was more thorough. 😁

[@usvidragonslayer3091]

First

[@monzermasri8141]

Lot of bad songs and some are good enough.

[@miketief]

The number of errors of fact in this 37-minute video is remarkable. Pick up a book or two by credentialed authors , why don't you?

[@donnygreen3725]

Ahhh, some were witten by Hawisson! [It may be worth coming up with a wittle money - dowwers or pounds] to make the nawwating not so distwacting. I wiwwy think so

[@bassman2k2]

"God Save OZ" Phil Spector was a RECORD PRODUCER NOT A MUSICAIN! THIS SHOWS YOU GUYS ARE AN AMATEURS!

[@fourthtunz]

There were some solo Beatle tracks. I think it was on Lennon stuff that Phil played piano on.

[@benjamingallaher8359]

Phil Spector got his start as a musician in 1957 with The Teddy Bears. In 1958, they had a #1 hit in the US with a Phil Spector original whose title was insipred by the epitaph on the tombtone of Spector's father: "To Know Him Is to Love Him." He was a capable guitarist and pianist, and he co-wrote some gigantic hits, including "(You've Lost That) That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Spaniah Harlem." I think that he sucked, and that his work (with only a few exceptions) is seriously overrated, but he was a musician, songwriter, and producer, as well as a total fucking nutcase.

[@jamessilver6429]

he plays the guitar solo on ' heart of stone' by the rolling stones,among other things.

[@ijonny25251]

lot of mistakes like there was some kind of debate as to whether the Beatles were better than the stones!

[@adolescentwombat]

Well yeah of course during most of the Beatles years together there was no competing with the Beatles. Particularly the Stones trying to copy them. Especially in 67. The Beatles were always ahead of the curve and always the most innovative at the most crucial times in our culture and pop culture with Rubber Soul, Revolver, and St Pepper's up to 67. (though my favorites are Abby Road and Let It Be). But The Stones from 68 to 74 and pretty much every other one hit wonder from 68 to 74 surpassed the Beatles musically. And John and George and Paul knew it. Paul with being inspired by every song he heard on the radio from 68-70, George outright saying it in Get Back that everyone was surpassing them, and John verbally attacking every other artist with a record contract and a hit single, lol. All you had to do was turn on the radio from 68 onward to know this was true. That every band that was inspired by the Beatles (which was everyone) went to places the Beatles never went to. Like the Stones with their country infused blusey rock and roll of the early 70s. Finally making their own sound. They benefited from proudly using session musicians and learning from them. Whereas the Beatles tried not to use them but also kept it secret when they did (with a few exceptions like Billy Preston which was documented on film).

[@DaveMcIroy]

None of these were by The Beatles. 👎🏻

[@kevinbryant3987]

Now we know why they passed these songs, to other bands. It's because they suck!!!!

[@chrissmith2114]

Lennon was definitely the brains and driving force behind the Beatles, with Paul insisting on having his own name added to the songs. Harrison was a much better musician than Paul M

[@BushidoPhoto]

I hate Eric Clapton though. Great video otherwise.

[@patrickpowell5430]

Cilla Black's problem was that she can't sing and had a bloody awful voice.

[@julianaylor4351]

Insulting the dead, that's a new low.

[@patrickpowell5430]

How is that 'an insult'? She couldn't sing for toffee and did have a bloody awful voice. So how is that an insult? Are we supposed to pretend things aren't true once people die? Are Hitler, Stalin, Shipman and Saville now OK guys just because they are dead? @@julianaylor4351

[@douglasjaeger1559]

I realize it’s just your opinion, but in my opinion you are clueless.

[@patrickpowell5430]

@@douglasjaeger1559 And if you do think Cilla could sing and had a delightful voice, in my opinion you have no taste and frankly don't much like music.

[@Charlesb88]

@@patrickpowell5430A lot of people think Cilla Black could sing. You’re entitled to your opinion but it’s clearly not a wildly shared one.

[@MrScotty5877304]

The beatles weren't the best they were just the first to sound the way they do! The first tv ever sold might have been a trail blazing bit of technology but its not the best ever made.

[@w.neller33]

You don’t have an impact 60 years later by some degree, not being the best

[@julianaylor4351]

Your loss....your missing out on an amazing catalogue of songs and music.

[@fourthtunz]

I haven’t run into many people that don’t like the Beatles, but I could see it if you’re sick of their hit songs they had so many great songs though many of them don’t get played often enough. Still the number one selling band in the world so I guess somebody likes them.🙃

[@debbie9929]

That's your OPINION. And you know what they say about opinions: LIKE A-HOLES, everyone has one

[@kingvii7250]

I don't like Lennon at all. He's a arrogant and self-centered man. Paul on the otherhand is my favorite. Also, as someone said here... it's missleading to say it's the Beatles.

[@md-ps2hx]

It's highly questionable if The Beatles wrote ANY of their own music let alone performed it in the studio. They are known to have used session musicians.

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

The Monkees video is two doors ahead, on the left.

[@md-ps2hx]

@@aboxofbroken8tracks983 Indeed! The Monkees will be watching the Wrecking Crew musicians play THEIR 'songs'...

[@adammintern3927]

the beatles suck

[@martinwhitley9893]

I really don’t understand why people rate the Beatles they have got to be one of the most over rated crap bands ever neither of the band could speak English scouser’s speak like they have flem stuck if the back of their throats

[@Love6187]

I think you are delusional.

[@martinwhitley9893]

@@Love6187 not at all ,there there are so many better bands that can sing or speak the king’s English ,unfortunately scouser’s including the Beatles can not speak any form of English ,as I said they need to clear their throats of phlegm I’m only thankful that their no longer singing crap records macartney thinks he’s better than everybody else the only half decent one out of the Beatles is ringo star

[@BobHUK]

Looking back 60 years it may seem that the Beatles aren't that good when compared to modern music. However, if you listen to other music that was produced at the same time, you'll see that it was all rather crude back then, and the Beatles were just another covers band to begin with, albeit a good one in comparison with many of their contemporaries. But you have to remember that without the Beatles, none of our modern pop music would exist. Up till then, in the UK at least, pop bands and singers were considered to be expendible, and it was expected that no group or singer of popular songs would have a career lasting more than 2 years at most. They didn't write their own songs, but were hired to sing a particular song that had been written by one or more professional songwriters. That was the way the industry worked, and those running it were happy to keep on doing things that way for ever. It was unheard of for a British band to write their own material and become famous. The fact that the Beatles were able to move from being a covers band to one that wrote their own songs was something of a breakthrough in the UK music business at the time. Furthermore, once the door had been opened by them, the rest of the bands that could write their own material were able to step through into the limelight as well, such as the Kinks, the Who, the Stones, etc. Also, don't forget it was the fact that the Beatles became a studio band that allowed them to experiment with sounds and effects that had never been heard before, such as the backward guitar playing etc. It was from this early experimentation that all the modern methods of music production were developed, including all the various electronicely synthesised sounds which are now standard in music production. Furthermore, their coupling with an experienced producer who was himself a classical musician meant that in the studio they were able to put together songs and arrangements that were way ahead of the rest of the industry at that time. As such, they were the inventors of much of what you now think of as pop music, and for that you must give them the credit of being the first of their kind. They trailblazed two distinct paths for music. On the one hand they became the foremost singer/songwriters of their day, and on the other they pioneered the idea of song development in a studio, using multiple tracks that included all kinds of effects in order to add interest to the finished article. I'm not saying that others hadn't done either thing before (Buddy Holly had written much of his own music before the Beatles, and Les Paul had experimented with multiple track recording during the 50's), but they were the first to combine all the differing elements into one successful package that resonated with audiences at that time. Another thing is that some of their songs have stood the test of time, and are now considered classics, such as Yesterday (the most covered song in history), Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, and many others that still resonate with people, such as Hey Jude, and All you need is Love, etc. So don't be too quick to dismiss their contribution to popular music, it was, and remains fundamental in the development of the whole pop music genre. Oh, your comments about Scousers would get you stabbed in Liverpool even today, more than 50 years after the Mersey Sound became famous. So be careful about who you criticise for their diction. It may not appeal to you, but if you'd been born in Merseyside you too would have spoken as they did. I don't come from that area, but I recognise the historic significance of regional accents, and even today, when much of our language has become standardised through exposure to television, people still speak with the twang of their historic dialects, even if the dialects themselves have more or less died out.