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This is a list of cover versions by music artists who have recorded one or more songs written and originally recorded by English rock band The Beatles.Many albums have been created in dedication to the group, including film soundtracks, such as I Am Sam (2001) and Across the Universe (2007) and commemorative albums such as Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) and This Bird Has Flown (2005).
Each verse is based on the G, C and D chords (I, IV, and V). The refrain contains only I and IV chords, and is twelve measures long (the repetition of a six-measure pattern). The first two measures are the G chord. The third and fourth measures are the C chord in the so-called 6 4 (second) inversion. The fifth and sixth measures return to the G ...
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles became interested in tape loops and found sounds. [36] [37] Early examples of the group sampling existing recordings include loops on "Revolution 9" [37] (the repetitive "number nine" is from a Royal Academy of Music examination tape, some chatter is from a conversation between George Martin and Apple office manager Alistair Taylor, and a chord from a recording of ...
The most profound moment of “Beatles ’64” arrives at the end, when Lennon, in an interview he did for French television, sums up what he thinks the Beatles meant by saying that a ship was ...
Influenced somewhat by the Shirelles, [3] "When I Get Home" is essentially a rock and roll number, but with unusual chord progressions. Lennon liked this particular ploy, and used it on many of his songs at the time. Typical also of this period of the Beatles is the vocal leap into falsetto.
Helter Skelter" was voted the fourth worst song in one of the first polls to rank the Beatles' songs, conducted in 1971 by WPLJ and The Village Voice. [75] According to Walter Everett, it is typically among the five most-disliked Beatles songs for members of the baby boomer generation, who made up the band's contemporary audience during the ...
It then shifts again via a D 7 chord (a III 7 in the old B ♭ key and a V 7 in the new Gm key) to G minor where there is a i–iv (Gm–Cm chord) progression. Finally, the pivot of D 7 takes the scale back to the G major tonic and reinforcing G melody note of "Everywhere". [15]
"The Beatles' Movie Medley" is a compilation of snippets from various Beatles songs. The single peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and No. 10 on the British charts in 1982. The songs were chosen from the Beatles' films, A Hard Day's Night , Help! , Magical Mystery Tour , Yellow Submarine and Let It Be .