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Born Ronald Wycherley in Dingle, Billy was one of the first Liverpudlian pop stars.ÌýHalfway To Paradise is a classic pop big-ballad and its plaintive tone struck just the right note for this song’s theme of a love that remains 'so near, yet so far away'. |
London-born ElvisÌýmoved with his mother to Liverpool as a child.ÌýShipbuilding is one of the most intelligent protest songs ever written. Prompted by his anger at the futility of the Falklands war of 1982, Costello’s lyrics rail against the war while still finding sympathy with the soldiers. |
In 1968 Hey Jude was the first release on The Beatles' own Apple label. Primarily Paul's composition, John Lennon later admitted it was his favourite McCartney song. |
One of Lennon's most deeply personal songs, In My Life initially took shape as an imaginary bus trip through Liverpool. The journey idea didn't quite work but the theme carried on. |
Despite being such an epochal song, Let It Be was nailed in a couple of short sessions. McCartney was at the top of his game and of the final seven Beatles singles, five would be Paul's. But even by his standards, Let It Be was McCartney in excelsis. |
George Harrison's Something shows more clearly than any other song in the Beatles' canon that there were three great songwriters in the band rather than two. Harrison wrote the song during a break from the White Album sessions in 1968 and hoped Ray Charles would record it. |
One of the defining characteristics of British psychedelia was a regression to childhood, and nowhere is this better illustrated than in Strawberry Fields Forever. John Lennon wrote the initial version on acoustic guitar while filming the Richard Lester film. |
Yesterday is one of the most covered songs in recording history. But it's the original version, as performed by its composer Paul McCartney, which remains the best known. The song came to him in a dream and for a while, he wasn't convinced that it was his to record. |
First released in 1971, and already John Lennon's most famous post-Beatle song, Imagine took on a life of its own following John's murder in December 1980. |
Gave George Harrison both his highest and lowest moments as a solo star. It twice went to number one but also cost him a fortune in legal fees following a lengthy plagiarism battle. |
With Lennon's opening and closing verses bookending McCartney’s piano-led midsection, the song shows how seemingly disparate elements form a cohesive, powerful whole. |
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