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The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)

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Album: Abbey Road
Released: 1969

I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lyrics

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

She's so heavy
Heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
You know I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

Yeah, she's so heavy

Writer/s: LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was the last song mixed for Abbey Road, and it was the last time all four Beatles were in the studio together. It was the result of two unfinished songs woven together. Before they broke up, The Beatles had a lot of partially completed songs, many of which ended up in their solo work.

John Lennon wrote this about Yoko Ono - the couple were married in March 1969, about six months before the Abbey Road album was released. Lennon was experimenting with a heavy blues sound, so the song has few lyrics and long stretches of repeated chords. "Every time I pick up the guitar I sing about Yoko and that's how I'm influenced," Lennon said at the time. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Taken on its own, the lyric is very basic, repeating just a few simple lines like:

I want you so bad
It's driving me mad

Soon after Abbey Road was released, a news magazine show called 24 Hours read the lyrics out loud, taking a derisive tone. Lennon replied: "To me that's a damn sight better lyric than 'Walrus' or 'Eleanor Rigby' because its progression to me. And if I want to write songs with no words or one word... maybe that's Yoko's influence."

The rhythm was based on Mel Torme's song "Coming Home Baby."

With the exception of "Revolution 9," this was The Beatles longest song.

John Lennon sang this monofonic, as some of the troubadours sang in the Middle Ages: There is no chord behind the melody, but an instrument follows the singer's melody. The song ends with an orchestra arrangement, which was Lennon's idea, and is very much similar to the end of "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" in "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner. (thanks to Johan Cavalli, who is a music historian in Stockholm)

George Harrison played a Moog synthesizer on this track. It is one of the first uses of the instrument, which was custom-made for Harrison.

The guitars were overdubbed many times to get a layered sound.

This song contains an accidental background lyric. On stereo, play the song at 4:30 and listen very closely to the left speaker. In the bass break after John's scream, you can faintly hear someone say, "What was that about!?" presumably in response to the scream. (thanks, Tommy - Alameda, CA)

Fetty Wap - Trap Queen

Fetty Wap - Trap Queen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Up Next
Released: 2014

Trap Queen Lyrics

I'm like hey, wassup, hello
Seen yo pretty ass soon as you came in the door
I just wanna chill, got a sack for us to roll
Married to the money, introduced her to my stove
Showed her how to whip it now she remix it for low
She my Trap Queen let her hit the bando
We be counting up watch how far them bands go
We just selling dope, talking matching lambos
Got 50 60 grams prob 100 grams though
Man I swear I love her how she work that damn pole
Hit the strip club we be letting bands go
Everybody hating we just call them fans though
In love with the money I ain't never letting go

And I get high with my baby
I just left the mall I'm getting fly with my baby, yeahh
And I get right with my baby
I be in the kitchen cooking pies with my baby, yeahh

And I get right with my baby
I just left the mall I'm getting fly with my baby, yeahh
And I get right with my baby
I be in the kitchen cooking pies with my baby, yeahh

I hit the strip with my trap queen
'Cause all we know is bands
I might just snatch up a Rari
And buy my boo a Lambo
I might just snatch up a necklace
Drop a couple on a ring
She ain't want it for nothin'
Because I got her everything
Bitch you up on the bando
Ride with me where I can't go
Remy boys got extendo
Count up hella bands tho
I'll fuck in your benz hoe
Fetty Wap I'm living fifty thousand
K how I stand tho
If you checking for my pockets I'm like

And I get high with my baby
I just left the mall I'm getting fly with my baby, yeahh
And I get right with my baby
I be in the kitchen cooking pies with my baby, yeahh

And I get right with my baby
I just left the mall I'm getting fly with my baby, yeahh
And I get right with my baby
I be in the kitchen cooking pies with my baby

I'm like hey, wassup, hello
Seen yo pretty ass soon as you came in the door
I just wanna chill, got a sack for us to roll
Married to the money, introduced her to my stove
Showed her how to whip it now she remix it for low
She my trap queen let her hit the bando
We be counting up watch how far them bands go
We just selling dope, talking matching lambos
Got 50 60 grams prob 100 grams though
Man I swear I love her how she work that damn pole
Hit the strip club we be letting them bands go
Everybody hating we just call them fans though
In love with the money I ain't never letting go

I be smoking dope and you know Backwoods what I roll
Remy Boy, Fetty eating shit up that's fasho
I'll run in ya house, then I'll fuck ya ho
Remy boyz are nuttin' re-re-remy boyz are nuttin'

Writer/s: MAXWELL, WILLIE / FADD, TONY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This hood love song is the breakthrough single for Paterson, New Jersey native Fetty Wap. The track finds him paying tribute to his girlfriend of three years, the Trap Queen. He explained to Complex: "I was just dealing with somebody at the time, and she was holding me down. We were building a lot, and I came up with the concept. She was my trap queen."

The "Remy Boyz, yeaahhhh 1738" shout out at the beginning refers to the name of the Paterson squad, which consists of Fetty, Montana "Monty" Buckz, P. Dice and Khaos. The name originates from Remy Martin 1738 liquor.

The New Jersey rapper told Complex: "I always put my squad in everything that I do even though people tell me not to. I do what I want because it's been working. I don't listen to anybody."

Fetty Wap recalled the recording of the song to Billboard magazine. "I can't remember exactly what day, but I just know it was in March, the energy was just so high," he remembered. "The day before, I was just letting them hear how I was coming up with - like I never came up with nothing, I just had melody in my head and I just knew how I wanted to do it. Once I listened to it a couple of times I just went in."

This was the first time that Fetty Wap sang on a record. "I wouldn't say I was nervous. I was anxious to do it, really," he told Billboard. "I just wanted to do something different. Everybody was rapping. Everybody wants to be a rapper so I did something different. I started singing. But I ain't want to be a singer, so I did my own thing. Melodies - I don't really know how to put it. I just do the Fetty Wap."

The guy that delivers the outro is Fetty Wap's friend Nitt Da Gritt - he also directed the song's music video. Nitt Da Gritt runs RGF Productions, the label to which Fetty is signed.

Speaking to New York Magazine, Fetty Wap said that the "Trap Queen" phrase celebrates the loyalty he's received from one particular woman in his life. "The person I was dealing with at the time [of writing the song], she kind of just showed me a different side of women," he explained to the publication. "She still to this day supports me and buys all my songs on iTunes, she still shows me loyalty, the same loyalty before everybody knew who I was. That's where I get my inspirations and my motivation from for most of my songs and the meanings behind them."

Fetty Wap told Complex about the real-life inspiration for the song. "I first met her at her job, and the way that I introduced myself, she didn't like it," he recalled. "I didn't really do it in the most respectful way. I was like, 'What do you want me to say? Do you want me to say, "Hey, what's up, hello" to you? Does that sound better?' The next day I went back to her job, and she was my trap queen from then on."

Though Fetty isn't dating her anymore, they remain friends. "I don't think I'll ever meet anybody like my ex ever again," the New York rapper said. "She's doing good now. She's in school. She's doing what she has to do. With the money that we made - and the money that I'm making now and everything that's going on for me - it's only right that I help her. Even though we're not together, I still make sure that she's good."

Fetty Wap won the MTV Video Music Award for Artist to Watch at the 2015 ceremony for this video.

The song describes the rapper's "Trap Queen" helping him cook up crack cocaine. "If everybody was to catch on to the [references in the] song, it wouldn't have been that big," admitted Fetty to Billboard magazine. "At the end of the day, it's my personal love story. Can't nobody tell me how to be in love."

The Fetty Wap LP debuted on the top of the Billboard 200. Fetty was the rapper to reach #1 with a debut album since A$AP Rocky's Long.Live.A$AP in 2012.

This song took Fetty from rags to riches, but he didn't comprehend its financial impact until after he was injured in a motorcycle accident on September 26, 2015, one day after the Up Next album was released.. "I was like, 'How am I going to pay the bills?'," he told Entertainment Weekly. "Then I checked by account and was like, 'Oh yeah. I'm rich.'"

According to Fetty, he was still in the hospital when the album hit #1 the week of October 17. When he returned to the stage on October 22, he performed from a throne with his leg elevated.

The Beatles - Oh! Darling

The Beatles - Oh! Darling Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Abbey Road
Released: 1969

Oh! Darling Lyrics

Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
I'll never do you no harm, no harm

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried

Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never let you down
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

Writer/s: LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Paul McCartney wrote this song. He came to the studio early every day for a week to sing it because his voice was too clear. He wanted it to sound strained, like he had been performing it all week.

McCartney had deployed the retro shredded-voice form several times before; once each on "I'm Down," "Long Tall Sally," and "Helter Skelter." Perhaps a bit of artistic rivalry was afoot here - hard rock vocals had been the domain of John, and Paul seemed almost to be pushing himself to compete.

Lennon resented that Paul didn't let him sing lead vocals. He felt it was more his style, but since McCartney wrote it, it was his decision. In a 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon even shot down McCartney's vocal efforts, specifically stating that he could have done it better.

The Beatles performed this in their movie Let It Be. While rehearsing the song for the film, John announced that Yoko's divorce with her former husband had finally gone through and he improvised a verse about that. This can be heard on The Beatles Anthology 3. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

One of the reasons McCartney could arrive at the studio so early was because he only lived two blocks away from Abbey Road. Incidentally, this also factors into why he was barefoot on the album cover for Abbey Road. He'd just worn sandals and happened to slip them off. Next thing you know, hundreds of "Paul is dead" rumors.

"Oh! Darling" draws its influence equally from New-Orleans-style R&B popularized by Fats Domino, and the "swamp" style of blues popular in Louisiana at the time. The rest of the group added the doo-wop harmony after the fact.

Gaz Coombes - Detroit

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Album: Matador
Released: 2015

Detroit Lyrics

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This song finds former Supergrass singer Gaz Coombes recalling a drug-induced fear he experienced during an early American tour. "I was 17 years old, and after a good night out, I was in the middle of – well, of a drug paranoia episode," he recalled to The Independent.

Coombes called his girlfriend on a payphone hoping her voice would calm him down. "She spent the next 20 minutes talking me round, recalibrating my brain," he said.

"I just thought it was a really beautiful moment, that two people can have that sort of connection," Coombes added, "and that one of those people had the ability to pull the other one into a better place just with some reassuring words."

The Beatles - Something

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Album: Abbey Road
Released: 1969

Something Lyrics

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around and it may show
I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Writer/s: ROSSI/HARRISON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was released as a double A-side single with "Come Together." It was the only song written by George Harrison released as a single by The Beatles. They had used some of his songs as B-sides, including "The Inner Light" and "Old Brown Shoe."

Harrison wrote this during a break while they were working on The White Album. It was not recorded in time for the album, so Harrison gave this to Joe Cocker, but Cocker didn't release it until after The Beatles did.

This seemed to be inspired by Harrison's wife, Pattie, but he claimed he did not have anyone in mind when he wrote it. George was really into his studies of Krishna Consciousness when he wrote the song, and its original intent was as a devotion to Lord Krishna. In fact, the lyric was "something in the way HE moves," but George ended up changing it because he didn't want to be perceived as a "poof."

Pattie did inspire "Layla" when Eric Clapton realized he loved her a few years later. She and Clapton were married from 1979-1988 (he also wrote "Wonderful Tonight" for her).

In her 2007 book Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me , Pattie Boyd wrote: "George wrote a song called 'Something.' He told me in a matter-of-fact way that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful and it turned out to be the most successful song he ever wrote, with more than 150 cover versions. George's favorite version was the one by James Brown. Mine was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in our kitchen. But, in fact, by then our relationship was in trouble. Since a trip to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India in 1968, George had become obsessive about meditation. He was also sometimes withdrawn and depressed."

Harrison came up with the title and the first line after listening to a James Taylor song called "Something In The Way She Moves." Taylor was signed to Apple Records (The Beatles' label) at the time.

This is the only song on the Beatles 1 album that was not a #1 hit on its own in the US or UK. "Something" and "Come Together" spent one week at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart when the compilers of the chart changed its ranking method and stopped giving separate rankings for the two sides of a single. It was also gave Harrison representation among the 27 tracks. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

Frank Sinatra called this "The greatest love song ever written." He often performed it in the '70s, at one point wrongly attributing it to Lennon and McCartney rather than Harrison.

Harrison had the first line, "Something in the way she moves," but had trouble coming up with the second. He considered "attracts me like a pomegranate," before coming up with "attracts me like no other lover."

This was used in a commercial for Chrysler cars in 1987.

With at least 200 cover versions on record, this is the second-most-covered Beatles song; only "Yesterday" has been covered more.

John Lennon said that this was his favorite song on Abbey Road.

Harrison wrote this on a piano. The Beatles often composed and recorded separately at this time.

Harrison pictured Ray Charles on vocals when he wrote this. Charles did eventually cover it.

With 21 string players used in overdubs, this ended up being one of the most orchestral Beatles songs. This sound made it a staple of light rock radio and, in bowlderized instrumental form, Muzak.

Before this was edited down, it contained a long instrumental tag at the end. (thanks, Barry Kesten - Bellmore, United States)

Harrison chastised McCartney for being too active with his bass lines in this song. In the past, Paul had always been very critical of George's guitar playing on his songs. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

Dave Grohl, a former member of Nirvana and leader of The Foo Fighters, recorded a tribute song to Harrison on the Foo's first album called "Oh, George" based on the guitar lead to this. Harrison was Grohl's favorite Beatle, and this was one of the first leads he learned to play on guitar.

As a tribute to George Harrison, Paul McCartney played a version of this on his 2002 tour using a ukulele George had given him.

Jeff Lynne, Joe Walsh and Dhani Harrison performed this song on the CBS special The Beatles: The Night That Changed America. The show featured Grammy-winning performers covering Beatles songs; it aired on February 9, 2014 - the 50th anniversary of the group's first Ed Sullivan Show appearance.

Gaz Coombes - To The Wire

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Album: Matador
Released: 2015

To The Wire Lyrics

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This epic description of bereavement finds Gaz Coonbes recalling the loss of his mother. "I was 27 when she died, and it definitely f--ked me up," the singer told NME. "You become a little bit closer to your own mortality; it kind of comes to the forefront of your mind. So it can play with your head."

The Beatles - Old Brown Shoe

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Album: Past Masters, Vol. 2
Released: 1969

Old Brown Shoe Lyrics

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George Harrison wrote this song and also played guitar, organ and bass on the track; it was one of the few times he included a guitar solo for himself. Regarding the words, opposites were a common theme in Harrison's lyrics: right/wrong, short/tall. He explained: "I started the chord sequences on the piano, which I don't really play, and then began writing ideas for the words from various opposites... Again, it's the duality of things - yes no, up down, left right, right wrong, etcetera."

This was released as the B-side of "The Ballad of John and Yoko."

The album cover to the single echoes the album cover for Hey Jude in a clever way. On the single version for "The Ballad of John and Yoko," John and Yoko are seated on a pair of statues, while the rest of the group, looking rather forlorn, stand in the background. On the cover of Hey Jude, all four Beatles stand indoors in a classical setting flanked by statues - one of which off to the side wears Yoko's hat.

Even fans argue to this day whether that's George's or Paul's bass work. The various editing sessions in the studio muddy the waters quite a bit. To wit: During the Let It Be sessions, the group did two recordings, one with Harrison and piano accompaniment, and one with the whole group plus Billy Preston. They rehearsed the song eight more times for these sessions, and there's some bootlegs of these tapes out there. Then a complicated hail of edits on different tracks ensued when they actually went to record "Old Brown Shoe," with Harrison replacing two guitar tracks with his own and wiping Lennon's rhythm guitar in favor of a Hammond organ. Remember that this was towards the end of the Beatles' career, and there were growing creative fractures in the band. For the record, Harrison told a Creem interview that that's his bass.

Incubus - Absolution Calling

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Album: Trust Fall (Side A)
Released: 2015

Absolution Calling Lyrics

It's like an intuition or a feeling in the air
An intangible impression that's always everywhere
You bit into the apple, laid down your sword an shield
(Untie, a little bit dies, a little each time, the medicine smile)
Then spun 'round like a gyre in the unified field!
(Inside, your elegant guide, an arrow in flight a million miles)

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, Absolution Calling
Are you there, or not?

It's an open invitation, come see the sights of sages
We've been a pride of lions so afraid to leave our cages
Don't fret over the pieces that smolder in the sun
(Untie! A little bit dies, a little each time, the medicine smile)
'Cause nothing can be broken when everything is one
(Inside, your elegant guide, an arrow in flight a million miles)

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
"Are you there, or not?"

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
"Are you there, or not?"

You bit into the apple, laid down your sword an shield
(Untie! A little bit dies, a little each time, the medicine smile)
Then spun 'round like a gyre in the unified field!
(Inside, your elegant guide, an arrow in flight a million miles)

Oh, I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
"Are you there, or not?"

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
"Are you there?"

Writer/s: JOSE ANTH PASILLAS, CHRISTOPHER E KILMORE, BENJAMIN LEE KENNEY, MICHAEL AARON EINZIGER, BRANDON CHARLES BOYD
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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This song started with a bass riff laid down when vocalist Brandon Boyd was away in Bali and evolved from there. Guitarist Mike Einziger recalled on KROQ-FM's Kevin & Bean Show: "He (Boyd) had to leave on this trip so we were like, let's just try to make studio magic while he was gone so we started sending him idea. All four of us were in the studio jamming. That song just came out of us all in the studio improvising. It was like, 'Oh wait, what's that? Oh cool.' And it just evolved."

The Beatles - Get Back

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Album: Let It Be
Released: 1969

Get Back Lyrics

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it wouldn't last
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass

Get Back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Jojo. Go home
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back Jo

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can

Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Loretta. Go home
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged

Writer/s: Lennon, John / Mccartney, Paul James
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Early versions include the line "I dig no Pakistanis." The song began as a commentary about immigration, telling people to "Get Back" to their own countries. It was meant to mock Britain's anti-immigrant proponents. Paul McCartney thought better of it and made the lyrics more obscure. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL)

A live version on the Apple rooftop ended the movie Let It Be. This is what The Beatles were playing on the Apple rooftop when the police shut them down. The album version is a studio take with the end of the rooftop concert spliced on, complete with comments to make it sound live.

"Get Back" was going to be the title of the album. The concept was The Beatles "getting back" to their roots and playing new songs for a live audience without any studio tricks. This song came closest to capturing that spirit, but the album became something completely different when they decided to scrap the idea of a live album. Glyn Johns, who engineered the sessions was asked to put the album together from what were really rehearsal tapes. After he put the album together, it sat around while the Let It Be Movie was being edited from the film footage of The Beatles rehearsing in the studio and playing on the rooftop. During this time, The Beatles made the Abbey Road album, released it, and broke up. John Lennon had Phil Spector produce his solo song "Instant Karma," which Harrison played on. They liked Spector's work and asked him to produce the Get Back album, which was re-titled Let It Be. Spector took the tapes and added orchestrations using his "Wall Of Sound" technique, and the album that was supposed to be the raw sound of The Beatles returning to their roots was released as a highly-produced final album after they had broken up.

In their early days, The Beatles played in clubs for hours most nights, but by 1967, they stopped touring. This single was advertised as "The Beatles as nature intended."

At the beginning of the album version, Lennon sang, "Sweet Loretta fat she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan." He was making fun of the first line in the song.

At the end of the album version, Paul says "thanks Mo" in response to Ringo's wife, Maureen, who was clapping.

The press release to promote the single contained this quote from McCartney: "We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air... we started to write words there and then... when we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to roller coast by."

Lennon claimed this was basically a rewrite of their 1968 song "Lady Madonna."

The single version is longer than the album version. Usually it is the other way around.

Paul looked at Yoko in the studio when he sang the line "get back to where you once belong." John thought he was disrespecting her.

McCartney got the idea for this from the line, "Get back to where you should be," which came from a song Harrison wrote called "Sour Milk Sea," which was eventually recorded by Jackie Lomax. McCartney changed the line to, "Get back to where you once belonged." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

There was speculation that the character "JoJo" was based on Joseph Melville See Jr., Linda McCartney's first husband, who was from Tucson, Arizona. McCartney denied this, explaining in his 1988 autobiography Many Years From Now, that he and Linda were on good terms with See, who used the first name Melville, and that "JoJo" was "an imaginary character, half-man and half-woman." See never remarried, and in 2000 he killed himself in Tucson.

Billy Preston played piano and became the only guest artist to get a credit on a Beatles single when this was credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." After George Harrison left the sessions, he saw Preston in concert with Ray Charles. The Beatles met Preston in 1962 when they were both playing in Germany, but they hadn't seen each other since. Harrison asked Preston to come by the studio the next day, where he played on this and "Don't Let Me Down." Having him in the studio eased the tension and made it easier for The Beatles to put personal conflicts aside and record the album.

The last version of the song, which can be heard in the widely bootlegged "rooftop sessions," finds McCartney mocking the police as they shut down the rooftop concert. You can hear him ad-lib the lines "You been out too long, Loretta! You've been playing on the roofs again! That's no good! You know your mommy doesn't like that! Oh, she's getting angry... she'll have you arrested! Get back!"

Some of the artists to cover this song include: The Bee Gees, The Crusaders, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Green, Elton John, The London Symphony Orchestra, The Main Ingredient, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Billy Preston, Kenny Rogers, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Shadows, Status Quo, Rod Stewart, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sarah Vaughan. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

In 2003, Paul and Ringo gave permission to Apple Records to rework the album and remove Phil Spector's production. The result is the stripped down version called Let It Be... Naked, which McCartney claims is what the group intended.

McCartney played this at halftime of the 2005 Super Bowl. It was the year after Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the halftime show.

Jessie Ware - Pieces

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Album: Tough Love
Released: 2014

Pieces Lyrics

A reason to live, reason to love
You gave me them both and more yet,
A reason to fall, and a reason to hide
Suddenly all I'm left with

I was so sure this was real, but
Now I'm sure of nothing at all

I had to shatter to Pieces
You made me reveal myself, reveal myself
So if you no longer need them
Then give them to someone else, to someone else

Take what you gave
And throw it away
Now everything's changed, it's misplaced
Nothing to say, 'cause I'm not the same.
It's almost as if we just met.

I was so sure this was real but
Now I'm sure of nothing at all

I had to shatter to pieces
You made me reveal myself, reveal myself
Now that you no longer need them
I'll give them to someone else, to someone else

It's illogical, I was nothing without you
But you ought to know
I was lost when I had found you

I had to shatter to pieces
Made me reveal myself, reveal myself
Now that you no longer them, I'll give them someone else.
To someone else

I had to shatter to pieces
Made me reveal myself, reveal myself
Now that you no longer them
I'll give them someone else.
To someone else

Writer/s: PHILLIPS, WILLIAM EDWARD / NAPIER, JAMES JOHN / WARE, JESSICA
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This slow-building tender ballad finds Jessie Ware a broken woman after the end of a relationship. However she realizes such break-ups are an important step towards self discovery. Ware co-wrote the song with Jimmy Napes and William "Tourist" Phillips, who also collaborated with Sam Smith on his "Stay With Me" hit tune. The cut was produced by Emile Haynie of Lana Del Rey's Born To Die album fame.

The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road

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Album: Let It Be
Released: 1970

The Long and Winding Road Lyrics

The Long and Winding Road that leads to your door,
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before It always leads me here,
Leads me to your door.

The wild and windy night the rain washed away,
Has left a pool of tears crying for the day.

Why leave me standing here, let me know the way
Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried
Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried, but
Still they lead me back to the long and winding road
You left me standing here a long, long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, lead me to you door

Writer/s: Lennon, John / Mccartney, Paul James
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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One of the last Beatles songs, Paul McCartney wrote this based on tensions within the band.

The road McCartney is talking about is the B842 which runs down the east coast of Kintyre and on into Campbeltown near his Scottish farmhouse. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, WA)

McCartney: "I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray Charles. I have always found inspiration in the calm beauty of Scotland and again it proved the place where I found inspiration." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

The Beatles recorded this in January 1969 as a fairly simple ballad. By 1970, The Beatles were breaking up and and Phil Spector was brought in to go through the tapes and produce the album. Spector was known for his "Wall Of Sound" recording technique, where he added many instruments and layered the tracks to create a very full sound. On this track, he took out most of The Beatles instruments and added a string section and choir (The Mike Sammes Singers). The result was very different from what the group originally had in mind.

Even though he wrote this song, Paul McCartney didn't go to the sessions where Spector produced it. When McCartney heard the results, he made it clear that he hated what Spector did to his song, and tried to get the original version, which was mixed by engineer Glyn Johns, on the album. The band was already falling apart, and this caused further turmoil within the group, as Harrison and Lennon both supported Spector. Paul has not changed his stance over the years, and still believes Spector butchered it. Lennon and Harrison felt otherwise, and each had Spector produce their next solo efforts. Lennon said of Spector's work on Let It Be: "Phil was given the s--ttiest load of badly recorded s--t with a lousy feeling to it, and he made something of it."

The Beatles performed this in the movie Let It Be. Both the movie and album were the last The Beatles released. Abbey Road was the last album they recorded.

Paul McCartney offered this song to Tom Jones in 1968 on the condition it be his next single. He had "Without Love (There is Nothing)" set for release so he turned down the offer, something he would later regret. Speaking with Media Wales in 2012, Jones explained: "I saw him (McCartney) in a club called Scotts Of St James on Jermyn Street in London. I said to him When are you going to write me a song then Paul? He said, aye I will then. Then not long after he sent a song around to my house, which was 'The Long And Winding Road,' but the condition was that I could do it but it had to be my next single.

Paul wanted it out straight away. At that time I had a song called 'Without Love' that I was going to be releasing. The record company was gearing up towards the release of it. The timing was terrible, but I asked if we could stop everything and I could do 'The Long And Winding Road.' They said it would take a lot of time and it was impractical, so I ended up not doing it. I was kicking myself. I knew it was a strong song."

"Without Love" did well for Jones - it reached #5 in the US and #10 in the UK, but didn't have anywhere near the staying power of this Beatles classic. Jones did eventually record a Paul McCartney song, but not until 2012 when Paul wrote "(I Want To) Go Home," which was released on Jones' album Spirit In The Room.

This was the only Beatles song where John Lennon played bass. He was ordinarily their rhythm guitarist. Harrison and Ringo had their parts removed by Phil Spector, so they don't appear on this at all.

Alistair Taylor, the General manager at Apple Records, witnessed Paul McCartney's recording of the original demo version of this at 3 in the morning. He recalls in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: "He was picking out a melody and I said 'I like that, it's a fabulous melody,' and he said, 'It's just an idea.' He told the engineer to switch on the tape and he recorded 'The Long And Winding Road' then and there: it was full of la-las as he'd only written a few lines, but it was quite fantastic."

McCartney blocked release of the song as a single in the UK, but he could not prevent its release in the US where it topped the charts for 2 weeks. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)

This was one of 5 Beatles songs McCartney played on his 1976 Wings Over America tour.

n 2002 a cover version by Pop Idol winner Will Young and runner-up Gareth Gates topped the UK chart.

In 2003, Apple Records released a new version of the album called Let It Be... Naked, with Spector's production removed. For this song, a previously unreleased take was used when it was remixed. This version is what McCartney had in mind when he wrote the song.

Ringo's drums can be heard both on the Anthology 3 version and Spector's version (Spector's version just has the strings on top of the Anthology 3 version). (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso begins his song "It's a long way" with the lines, "Woke up this morning singing an old Beatles song." A few verses later he says, "It's a long and winding road." The song is in his 1972 British album Transa. (thanks, Marcos - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Some of the many artists who covered this song: Tony Bennett, George Benson, Cilla Black, Ray Charles, Cher, Judy Collins, Peter Frampton, Aretha Franklin, Richie Havens, Cissy Houston, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Liberace, The London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Manilow, Mantovani, Johnny Mathis, Bill Medley , George Michael, Olivia Newton-John, Billy Ocean, Stu Phillips, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Kevin Rowland , Sarah Vaughan, Andy Williams and Nancy Wilson. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

In an interview shortly before he became British Prime Minister, after five years of Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron told Q magazine that this is his favorite Paul McCartney song. He explained; "It has a wonderful melody and emotion and pretty much sums up the life of the Leader of the Opposition."

This became The Beatles 20th and last US #1 song on June 13, 1970.

The Lacs - God Bless a Country Girl

The Lacs - God Bless a Country Girl Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Outlaw in Me
Released: 2015

God Bless a Country Girl Lyrics

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The Lacs are a country-rap duo comprising Clay "Uncle Snap" Sharpe and Brian "Rooster" King. Their name is short for "Loud Ass Crackers."

"Our music is not one dimensional," says Sharpe. "We take the good out of rock, the good out of country and the good out of rap and mix them together and create something different. We build from scratch."

The song, which the guys both had a hand in co-writing, pays tribute to country girls. "Country girls are the best," said Sharpe. "These are the kind of girls we grew up with, and we're happy to honor them in this song."

"This is a song that brings the country out in every girl," added King, "no matter where she lives."