“Across the Universe” is a song recorded by the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song first appeared on the various artists’ charity compilation album No One’s Gonna Change Our World in December 1969, and later, in different form, on Let It Be, the group’s final released album.
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“Blackbird” is a Beatles song from the double-disc album The Beatles (known as the White Album). The song was written by Paul McCartney, though credited to Lennon–McCartney.
McCartney explained on Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, aired in 2005, that the guitar accompaniment for “Blackbird” was inspired by J.S. Bach’s Bourrée in E minor, a well known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar.
“This Boy” is a song by English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon-McCartney). It was released in November 1963 as the B-side of the British Parlophone single “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.
The Beatles performed it live on 16 February 1964 for their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. It also appears as the third track on side one of the American release, Meet the Beatles!.
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” was written and sung by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released on the album Help! in August 1965.
Lennon’s vocal style was inspired by the American singer Bob Dylan. Lennon wrote the song at home during what he called his “Dylan period”, wanting another song for the film Help!.[1] The song “is just basically John doing Dylan”, Paul McCartney confirmed.
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“In My Life” is a song by the Beatles released on the 1965 album Rubber Soul written mainly by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while Paul McCartney contributed to the final version, he and Lennon later disagreed over the extent of his contributions (specifically the melody).
Love this song.. Probably my favorite Lennon song in my favorite Beatles Album – Rubber Soul.
Cold Turkey is a solo John Lennon song but I am sure adding it here on our How To Play Beatles blog is fine with everybody, right?
This song is about the experience that John was feeling at the time when he decided to go cold turkey in the drugs and alcohol that he was into in that time
“Day Tripper” is a song by the Beatles, released as a double A-side single with “We Can Work It Out”. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The single topped the UK Singles Chart and the song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1966.
Learn to play one of the greatest guitar riff of all time (forget that Smoke on the Water shit). This guitar riff is the classic one from The Beatles! The song is the other side of We Can Work It Out! What is it? It’s Day Tripper!
On this post we will learn how to play the solo guitar part as well as the chords and the strumming part. Enjoy!
John Lennon came up with this after struggling to write a song for the album. Said Lennon: “I thought of myself sitting there, doing nothing and getting nowhere.”