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McCartney performed the song with the Beatles during their audition for Decca Records on January 1, 1962 (with somewhat mangled lyrics that included a mention of Peter Gunn). [citation needed] The song was performed by Floyd Pepper in an episode of The Muppet Show. It was famously used in Brad Bird's 1999 animated film, The Iron Giant.
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was the last Beatles song from the group's official canon to be included on an album, issued on an LP for the first time on Rarities (which had been included as a bonus disc in the British and American boxed set, The Beatles Collection in 1978, and released separately as an album in the United Kingdom in ...
[4] [5] The song is a love ballad with part of its lyrics sung in French. Following its inclusion on Rubber Soul, the song was released as a single in some European countries and in New Zealand, and on an EP in France, in early 1966. It was a number 1 hit for the Beatles in Belgium, France, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
In a 1980 interview for Playboy magazine, Lennon described it as "one of my favourite songs of the Beatles". [5] In 2000, Mojo placed "Here, There and Everywhere" at number 4 on its list of the greatest songs of all time. [6] In April 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it 25th out of the "100 Greatest Beatles Songs". [8]
"Tell Me What You See" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that first appeared in 1965 on their album Help! in the United Kingdom and on Beatles VI in the United States. The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney but mainly written by Paul McCartney. Regarding the song's authorship, McCartney said, "I seem to remember it as mine.
[9] For the 50th-anniversary editions of The Beatles, a music video was created by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney. [ 10 ] The song served as a namesake for the 2022 film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and is featured in the film's end-credits.
"Sun King" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. Written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is the second song of the album's climactic medley.
Lennon dismissed the lyrics as "crap" and "too soft". [8] They decided to rewrite the lyrics and after some difficulty – McCartney said it was "one of the stickiest" writing sessions [ 9 ] – they settled on the "drive my car" theme (which Bob Spitz credits to Lennon) [ 8 ] and the rest of the lyrics flowed easily from that.