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This is my first ever blog, so I'm not really sure what I'm doing  . I guess I'll learn as I go along.
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| I Am The Walrus Album: Magical Mystery Tour, 1967 Lead vocalist: John Lyrics ▼ I thought this song would be a good prompt to give because it’s just so bonkers. I’m not sure what it means, and I don’t actually believe it has any specific meaning. I read something where John said it was inspired by a couple of LSD trips, and also by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Wonderland’ — ‘The Walrus & The Carpenter.’ I also read that this was the first song the band recorded after Brian Epstein died – just two days later. The session was, naturally, difficult, and this song was apparently John’s way of grieving and raging against what had happened. (I’m not sure exactly how, but maybe it is just showing him trying to make sense of something incomprehensible.) Whatever it is or isn’t about, it never fails to make me smile. “Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.” I mean, who isn’t tickled by that? |
| I’m A Loser Album: Beatles For Sale, 1964 Lead vocalist: John Lyrics ▼ I love the smile on John’s face during this performance. His self-deprecating lyrics are obviously a little tongue-in-cheek. Although, I think he probably meant every word. I’ve read that he tried to work out whatever was going on in his head through his songs, and I think this is a great example of that. John said this song was written in his “Dylan period” when he was very much influenced by Bob Dylan. My favourite thing about this song: the low notes John’s voice hits. Oh, boy. They are something else. |
| Yellow Submarine Album: Revolver, 1966 Lead vocalist: Ringo Lyrics ▼ This song was considered, by John, to be a children’s song. It’s clear from various comments he made that this was Paul’s baby, and he had little to do with it. Therefore, he didn’t like it a lot. Which is a shame because it’s one of the most famous, instantly recognisable Beatles songs ever. And it has Ringo on lead vocals, which doesn’t happen all that often. For me, I think it is a bit of fun that should be enjoyed simply as that. And I do. |
| Something Album: Abbey Road, 1969 Lead vocalist: George Lyrics ▼ Surely, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. This song shows how George had grown to be every bit as good and classy a songwriter as Lennon and McCartney. This song was written for his then-wife Pattie Boyd. What I love the most about it, though, is what I learned from watching the ‘Get Back’ documentary. For six months, all George could think of to sing was, “Something in the way she moves attracts me like a pomegranate.” John suggested ‘cauliflower’ instead, but, thankfully, George came up with the much more fitting lyrics in the end. |
| I Saw Her Standing There Album: Please Please Me, 1963 Lead vocalist: Paul Lyrics ▼ Okay. Hands up: I have to confess to loving this song! I don’t care who you are, how cool you are. I dare you not to strut your stuff to this song. It’s impossible. This song is a great example of the Lennon-McCartney partnership. Paul apparently had the idea for the song, got the melody in his head and some of the lyrics. Then John picked it up and smoothed out the lyrics and finished the tune. According to Paul, it was written one afternoon when the lads were ‘sagging off’ school. |
| Help! Album: Help!, 1965 Lead vocalist: John Lyrics ▼ This is another John song. He wrote it about the struggles he had with his and the band’s quick rise to fame. He said in one interview that he suffered from bouts of depression every couple of years, and this song was written when he was in the midst of one of those bouts. I think it’s very relatable in that respect. |
| Revolution Album: The White Album Lead vocalist: John Lyrics ▼ ‘Revolution’ is taken from the incredible double album, titled simply ‘The Beatles,’ but forever referred to as ‘The White Album’ due to its cover. I had to include this song in the challenge because I absolutely adore it. John wrote it in the summer of 1968 as a protest against the Vietnam War. However, the lyrics are still so relevant today. In essence, it is a song about empathy and accepting others for who they are without violence … as I said: so relevant today. |
| For No One Album: Revolver, 1966 Lead vocalist: Paul Lyrics ▼ Only two of the Beatles perform on this song: Paul, on vocals, keyboards and bass, and Ringo on drums and percussion. The simplicity, and the yearning quality in Paul’s voice is beautiful. And the lyrics … Paul wrote this song about the end of his long-term relationship with Jane Asher. And, wow, what a breakup song it is. Even the ending — the way everything just stops abruptly — is genius. |
| If I Fell Album: A Hard Day’s Night, 1964 Lead vocalist: John Lyrics ▼ I chose this song because the harmonies are simply sublime. John and Paul share a microphone to make their voices even more intimate. Their voices sound as though they were made for each other in this song. Actually, in a lot of their songs. This one, though. Ohh. They could sing my phone bill to me like this, and I’d be grateful. |
| Please Please Me Album: Please Please Me, 1963 Lead Vocalist: John Lyrics ▼ This song is an explosion of pop. The second single released in the UK (after ‘Love Me Do’); it is a John Lennon song that is credited to Lennon-McCartney (one of over 200!  ). As soon as George Martin heard the recording of this song, he correctly predicted it would be the band’s first UK Number One. |
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