The Beatles Number 1's: 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!; Day Tripper; We Can Work It Out; Paperback Writer; Eleanor Rigby; Yellow Submarine; All You Need is Love; Hello Goodbye; Lady Madonna; Hey Jude; Get Back; Ballad of John and Yoko; Something; Come Together; Let it Be; Long and Winding Road. For so many bands their musical evolution rapidly hits a plateau: what they are good at. And why not? Their greatest hits are variants on a theme. Or possibly a band's evolution is a series of plateaus and dips: they boldly experiment but somehow, somehow we just prefer their original stuff. The Beatles though: it's an ascending curve. One of those exponential curves from Math's class; the return on the listening just gets better, better, better....oohh. Love Me Do is amazing. Day Tripper is a real ride. But by Let it Be. Yep, a special group: always more band for your buck.
It'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
29: The Philosophy
30: December 1960: A Turning Point
31: What really, really motivated The Beatles?
32: 1961
33: Their last rock 'n roller.
34: From road to studio
35: The Magnum Opus
36: Mr Brian Epstein
37: Just Ordinary Lads
38: 1962
39: Yesterday
40: The Encouragers
41: 1963
42: Peace & Love
43: Abbey Road 1
44: Abbey Road 2
45: Always Cool
46: Did Paul break up The Beatles?
47: Timeless
48: The Seven Stages of Love
49: A Space in their Hearts
50: It Was 1964
51: Masters of Simplicity
52: Both
53: Stories from Atoms of Experience.
54: That Rooftop, that slip of paper.
55: That 7-Minute Song
56: The Best Friends The Planet Ever Had
57: 1965
58: Play-lists
59: The photos of Astrid.
60 Catching Up
61 Consistently better
62: Evolution
63: Feel Better
64: The White Album, Take II
65: Lovable
66: Close your Eyes
67: The Long & Winding Road
68: All will be OK
69: Short Story to Epic
70 It's 1966
71: The Iconic pictures.
72: Seven Levels
73: Slow-burn
74: John Lennon