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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 ...
The record was the Beatles' ninth consecutive chart-topping single in the UK [47] and the band's fastest-selling single there since "Can't Buy Me Love", their previous McCartney-led A-side. [ 10 ] [ 48 ] At the following year's Ivor Novello Awards , "We Can Work It Out" was acknowledged as the best-selling single of 1965, ahead of "Help!"
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958; it has since been recorded by numerous other music artists. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 15 million copies around the world with the 4th most digital downloads sold of any Christmas ...
Stir-up Sunday is an informal term in Catholic and Anglican churches for the last Sunday before the season of Advent.It gets its name from the beginning of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer, which begins with the words, "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people...", but it has become associated with the custom of making the Christmas puddings on ...
"Any Time at All" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, it was mainly composed by John Lennon, with an instrumental middle eight by Paul McCartney. [2] It first appeared on the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night album.
“Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and white aligns with God’s promise of life everlasting and the purity, hope and goodness that Jesus’ life and death represent,” Sawaya says.
The Rickenbacker 360/12, a guitar popularised by the Beatles in 1964 and subsequently adopted by the Byrds. In addition to reflecting George Harrison's interest in Indian classical music, [2] "If I Needed Someone" was inspired by the music of the Byrds, who in turn had based their sound and image on those of the Beatles after seeing the band's 1964 film A Hard Day's Night.
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. [10] It was released in August 1966 as the final track on their album Revolver, although it was the first song recorded for the LP.