Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 55 of 100

Over seven minutes in length but what’s especially clever is that most simply don’t notice: the pace of the song is just masterful. The songs starts simply with some wonderful lyrics ( ‘a fool who plays it cool’), gets musically more complex, starts personal and one-to-one and then develops into a more public philosophy. Genius. And in current concerts, Sir Paul kicks it off, developing a wonderful sing-along mid-way in his awesome play-list. The mark of true popularity of a Beatles song is what happens as the play-list gets reduced because Sir Paul is only doing a few tracks or perhaps closing a major concert: Hey Jude will be there. And what did John think of it –the song written to give encouraging words to his son Jules as his parents went through divorce?- ‘the best Paul ever wrote’. Play it now: seven minutes of rejuvenation.

That’s another reason we love The Beatles.

The Back-Story

Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do

7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney

12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon

17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo

21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.

24: Simply Different

25: A Time to Think

26: Revolver

27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

28: The B Side