by Steve Turner
Anthology 3, October 28, 1996, Apple [Parlophone] CDPCSP 729 – ‘A Beginning’; ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’; ‘Helter Skelter’; ‘Mean Mr Mustard’; ‘Polythene Pam’; ‘Glass Onion’; ‘Junk’; ‘Piggies’; ‘Honey Pie’; ‘Don’t Pass Me By’; ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’; ‘Good Night’; ‘Cry Baby Cry’; ‘Blackbird’; ‘Sexy Sadie’; ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’; ‘Hey Jude’; ‘Not Guilty’; ‘Mother Nature’s Son’; ‘Glass Onion’; ‘Rocky Raccoon’; ‘What’s The New Mary Jane’; ‘Step Inside Love’/‘Los Paranoias’; ‘I’m So Tired’; ‘I Will’; ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’; ‘Julia’; ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’; ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window’; ‘Dig A Pony’; ‘Two Of Us’; ‘For You Blue’; ‘Teddy Boy’; ‘Rip It Up’/‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’/ ‘Blue Suede Shoes’; ‘The Long And Winding Road’; ‘Oh! Darling’; ‘All Things Must Pass’; ‘Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues’; ‘Get Back’; ‘Old Brown Shoe’; ‘Octopus’s Garden’; ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’; ‘Something’; ‘Come Together’; ‘Come And Get It’; ‘Ain’t She Sweet’; ‘Because’; ‘Let It Be’; ‘I Me Mine’; ‘The End’.
Yellow Submarine Songtrack, September 13, 1999, Apple [Parlophone] 521 4812 – ‘Yellow Submarine’; ‘Hey Bulldog’; ‘Eleanor Rigby’; ‘Love You To’; ‘All Together Now’; ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’; ‘Think For Yourself’; ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’; ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’; ‘Baby You’re A Rich Man’; ‘Only A Northern Song’; ‘All You Need Is Love’; ‘When I’m Sixty Four’; ‘Nowhere Man’; ‘It’s All Too Much’.
1, November 13, 2000, Apple [Parlophone] 529 9702 – ‘Love Me Do’; ‘From Me To You’; ‘She Loves You’; ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’; ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’; ‘A Hard Day’s Night’; ‘I Feel Fine’; ‘Eight Days A Week’; ‘Ticket To Ride’; ‘Help!’; ‘Yesterday’; ‘Day Tripper’; ‘We Can Work It Out’; ‘Paperback Writer’; ‘Yellow Submarine’; ‘Eleanor Rigby’; ‘Penny Lane’; ‘All You Need Is Love’; ‘Hello, Goodbye’; ‘Lady Madonna’; ‘Hey Jude’; ‘Get Back’; ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’; ‘Something’; ‘Come Together’; ‘Let It Be’; ‘The Long and Winding Road’.
Let It Be… Naked, November 17, 2003, Aapple [Parlophone] 595 7132 - ‘Get Back’; ‘Dig A Pony’; ‘For You Blue’; ‘The Long And Winding Road’; ‘Two Of Us’; ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’; ‘One After 909’; ‘Don’t Let Me Down’; ‘I Me Mine’; ‘Across The Universe’; ‘Let It Be’.
US RELEASES
SINGLES
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’/‘Penny Lane’, February 13, 1967, Capitol 5810.
‘All You Need Is Love’/‘Baby You’re A Rich Man’, 17 July 1967, Capitol 5964.
‘Lady Madonna’/‘The Inner Light’, March 18, 1968, Apple [Capitol] 2138.
‘Hey Jude’/‘Revolution’, August 26, 1968, Apple [Capitol] 2276.
‘Get Back’/‘Don’t Let Me Down’, May 5, 1969, Apple [Capitol] 2490.
‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’/‘Old Brown Shoe’, June 4, 1969. Apple [Capitol] 2531.
‘Something’/‘Come Together’, October 6, 1969, Apple [Capitol] 2654.
‘Let It Be’/‘You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)’, March 11, 1970, Apple [Capitol] 2764.
‘The Long And Winding Road’/‘For You Blue’, May 11, 1970, Apple [Capitol] 2832.
‘Free As A Bird’/‘I Saw Her Standing There’/‘This Boy’/‘Christmas Time (Is Here Again)’, December 4, 1995, Apple [Capitol] C2 7243 8 584 972
‘Real Love’/‘Baby’s In Black’/‘Yellow Submarine’/‘ Here, There And Everywhere’, March 4, 1996, Apple [Capitol] C2 7243 8 585 442
ALBUMS
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, June 2, 1967, Capitol MAS-2653 (mono), SMAS-2653 (stereo) – tracks as UK release
Magical Mystery Tour, November 27, 1967, Capitol MAL-2835 (mono), SMAL-2835 (stereo) – ‘Magical Mystery Tour’; ‘The Fool On The Hill’; ‘Flying’; ‘Blue Jay Way’; ‘Your Mother Should Know’; ‘I Am The Walrus’/‘Hello, Goodbye’; ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’; ‘Penny Lane’; ‘Baby, You’re A Rich Man’; ‘All You Need Is Love’.
The Beatles, November 25, 1968, Apple [Capitol] SWBO-101 (stereo) – tracks as UK release
Yellow Submarine, January 13, 1969, Apple [Capitol] SW-153 (stereo) – tracks as UK release
Abbey Road, October 1, 1969, Apple [Capitol] SO-383 (stereo) – tracks as UK release
Hey Jude, February 26, 1970, Apple [Capitol] SW-385 (stereo) – ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’; ‘I Should Have Known Better’; ‘Paperback Writer’; ‘Rain’; ‘Lady Madonna’; ‘Revolution’/ ‘Hey Jude’; ‘Old Brown Shoe’; ‘Don’t Let Me Down’; ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’.
Let It Be, May 18, 1970, Apple [Capitol] AR-34001 (stereo) – tracks as UK release
Live At The BBC, November 30, 1994, Apple [Capitol] (mono) – tracks as UK release
Anthology 1, November 21, 1995, Apple [Capitol] – tracks as UK release
Anthology 2, March 18, 1996, Apple [Capitol] – tracks as UK release
Anthology 3, October 28, 1996, Apple [Capitol] – tracks as UK release
Yellow Submarine Songtrack, September 14, 1999, Apple [Capitol] – tracks as UK release
1, November 14, 2000, Apple [Capitol] – tracks as UK release
Let It Be… Naked, November 17, 2003, Apple [Capitol] – tracks as UK release
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS ABOUT THE BEATLES
Bacon, David and Maslov, Norman. The Beatles’ England. Columbus Books, London ,1982; 910 Books, San Francisco, 1982.
Baird, Julia. John Lennon My Brother. Grafton, London, 1988.
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Bedford, Carol. Waiting For The Beatles, Blandford Press, Newron Abbot, 1984.
Braun, Michael. Love Me Do. Penguin, London, 1964.
Brown, Peter. The Love You Make. MacMillan, London, 1983.
Coleman, Ray. Lennon. McGraw Hill, New York, 1984.
Dalton, David and Cott, Jonathan. The Beatles Get Back. Apple, London, 1969.
Davies, Hunter. The Beatles. Heinemann, London 1968.
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Giuliano, Geoffrey. Blackbird. Smith Gryphon, London, 1991.
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Henke, James, Lennon Legend, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003.
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GENERAL BOOKS
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INDEX
Numbers in italics refer to captions
Beatles
Beach Boys, influence of 67
conflicts (financial) 134, 146
differences 108, 146
disliked by Russian authorities 68
drugs 37, 68, 140, 141
break-up 108, 115
earliest songs 118
jamming sessions 70, 71
Lennon/McCartney (songs by) 11, 13, 16, 19, 21, 22, 27, 28, 31, 33, 37, 40, 43, 44, 46, 47, 53, 54, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 71, 74, 76, 77-8, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 125, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 140, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 159, 163, 165, 168, 173, 174, 176;
Harrison/Lennon ‘Cry For A Shadow’ 161;
Harrison/Lennon/ McCartney/Starr 114, 156, 170;
Harrison/ McCartney 159
MBEs 145
Shadows, admiration for 161
touring in Copenhagen 20,
San Francisco 42
visiting India 64, 66
Beatles output
‘12-Bar Original’ 170
‘A Day In The Life’ 8, 35-7, 42
‘A Little Help From My Friends’ 8
Abbey Road album 6, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 136, 171;
film 109
‘Across The Universe’ 112
‘All Things Must Pass’ 178-9
‘All Together Now’ 46
‘All You Need Is Love’ 38, 40-1
Anthology 150-1, 152, 171, 175
‘Baby You’re A Rich Man’ 42-3
‘Back In The USSR’ 66-8
‘Because’ 135
‘Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite’ 8, 26-7
‘Birthday’ 92
‘Blackbird’ 84-5
‘Blue Jay Way’ 55
‘Carry That Weight’ 146
‘Cayenne’ 160
‘Christmas Time (Is Here Again)’ 156
‘Come And Get It’ 180
‘Come Together’ 126, 127-8
‘Cry Baby Cry’ 103
‘Cry For A Shadow’ 161-2
‘Dear Prudence’ 69-70
‘Dig A Pony’ 111
‘Dig It’ 114
‘Don’t Let Me Down’ 107
‘Don’t Pass Me By’ 88
‘Eleanor Rigby’ 133
‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey’ 95
‘Fixing A Hole’ 8, 22, 71
‘Flying’ 54
‘Fool On The Hill’ 52-3, 71
‘For You Blue’ 119
‘Free As A Bird’ 152-4
‘Get Back’ 107, 120, 177
‘Getting Better’ 8, 20-1
‘Glass Onion’ 71-2
‘Golden Slumbers’ 144
‘Good Morning Good Morning’ 8, 34
‘Good Night’ 106
‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’ 80-1
‘Hello Goodbye’ 44
‘Hello Little Girl’ 164-5
‘Help’ 153
‘Helter Skelter’ 97-8
‘Her Majesty’ 145
‘Here Comes The Sun’ 126, 134
‘Hey Bulldog’ 47
‘Hey Jude’ 62-3, 124
‘Honey Pie’ 102
‘I Am The Walrus’ 57-8, 71, 133
‘I Me Mine’ 113
‘I Want You’ 133
‘I Will’ 90
‘I’m So Tired’ 83
‘I’ve Got A Feeling’ 116
‘In My Life’ 10, 154
‘In Spite Of All Danger’ 157
‘It’s All Too Much’ 48
‘Julia’ 91
‘Junk’ 171
‘Lady Madonna’ 47, 59-60, 61, 71
Let It Be album 6, 108-9, 114, 126;
single 115, 125;
film 108-9
‘Like Dreamers Do’ 163
‘Long Long Long’ 99
‘Los Paranoias’ 176
‘Lovely Rita’ 33
‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ 8, 18-19
Magical Mystery Tour album 38-39, 49-50, 54, 56, 59, 65;
film 6, 38-39, 44, 49, 53, 55, 156
‘Martha My Dear’ 82
‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ 131
‘Mean Mr Mustard’ 138
‘Mother Nature’s Son’ 94
‘Not Guilty’ 172
‘Ob-la-di Ob-la-da’ 73-4
‘Octopus’s Garden’ 132
‘Oh Darling’ 132 ‘Old Brown Shoe’ 124
‘One After 909’ 118
‘Only A Northern Song’ 45
‘Penny Lane’ 8, 10-11
‘Piggies’ 86
‘Please Please Me’ 165
‘Polythene Pam’ 139-41
‘Real Love’ 155
‘Revolution 9’ 104-5
Revolver 6, 100-1
‘Rocky Raccoon’ 87
Rubber Soul 65, 170
‘Savoy Truffle’ 102
‘Sexy Sadie’ 96
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 6, 7, 8-9, 14-15, 19, 20, 22, 27, 34, 35, 36, 45, 59, 125
‘She Loves You’ 168
‘She Said She Said’ 10
‘She’s Leaving Hom
e’ 8, 23-25
‘Something’ 126, 128, 129-30
‘Step Inside Love’ 174-5
‘Strawberry Fields Forever 8, 12-13, 71, 153;
promo film 26 ‘Sun King’ 137
‘Teddy Boy’ 177
‘That Means A Lot’ 168
‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ 121-3, 124
The Beatles (aka The White Album) 6, 38, 89
The Beatles 1967-1970
‘The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill’ 77-8
‘The End’ 147
‘The Inner Light’ 61
‘The Long And Winding Road’ 117
The White Album 151, 172, 178
‘There’s A Place’ 71
‘Two Of Us’ 110
‘What’s The New Mary Jane’ 173
‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ 31-32, 56
‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ 79, 172
‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’ 89
‘Wild Honey Pie’ 76
‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ 16-17
‘Within You Without You’ 8, 28-30, 71
Yellow Submarine 45, 65; film 6, 38-39, 47
‘Yer Blues’ 93
‘You Know My Name’ 125
‘You Never Give Me Your Money’ 136
‘You’ll Be Mine’ 159
‘Your Mother Should Know’ 56
Berry, Chuck 67, 128
Black, Cilla 174-5
Carroll, Lewis 18-19
Charles, Ray 117
Clapton, Eric 41, 79, 102, 119, 134