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The stories behind 11 of The Beatles’ finest recordings

Our Life of a Song series has traced the group’s journey through the 1960s

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Something — Sinatra called it ‘the greatest love song of the past 50 years’
The Beatles’ I Am The Walrus — nonsense poetry meets LSD
The Life of a Song: ‘Yesterday’
The song came to Paul McCartney in a dream one night in London in 1963
Come Together — how The Beatles’ song became one of their most streamed tracks
The opener from Abbey Road went on to penetrate the heartlands of American rock
Across the Universe — how John Lennon found peace amid trauma
Written at a low point for the Beatle, the song went through many iterations — and was transformed by David Bowie
Helter Skelter — The Beatles’ brutal song that inspired a murder spree
Subsequent versions hoped to capitalise on the track’s notoriety — or tried to reclaim it

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