The Beatles

Released: November 20, 1995

Songwriter: Paul McCartney John Lennon Lennon-McCartney

Producer: George Martin

[Chorus]
Said move over once, move over twice
Come on baby don't be cold as ice
Said she's travelling on the one after 909

[Verse 1]
Pick up my bag, run to the station
Railman said "you've got the wrong location", yeah
Pick up my bag, run right home

[Conversation 1]
John: What are you doing?
Paul: Just... ah, it's murder! I can't do it, can't keep it up, I'm just goin'
George: Use your pleco!
Paul: I haven't got one! "Use the pleco"... I've been tryin' to get them all day
John: Well, your clothes have been brought hours ago...
Paul: I know, but the case was hardly moved
George: I said to you before, Paul, don't forget your case with your clothes in
Paul: I know, but the cases are still up at the door!
George: I said "do you want me to bring your case" in and you just walked away...
Paul: I didn't think, I thought you said I didn't really want
Control Room: Here we go!
Paul: George?

[Verse 1]
You got the number wrong, yeah

[Chorus]
She said she's travelling on the one after 909
I said move over, honey, I'm travelling on that line
I said move over once, move over twice
Come on, baby, don't be cold as ice
She said she's travelling on the one after 909
Oh, yeah!

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
Well, my baby said she's travelling on the one after-

[Conversation 2]
John: Okay
George: I told you!
Paul: [?]
John: [?]
Paul: You've come with the wrong [?] through the solo
George: [?]
John: What was it? Twelve bar?
Control Room: Yeah, yeah, twelve bar, yeah
Paul: It wasn't
Paul: You three...
Paul: One, two, there, four

[Chorus]
Said she's travelling on the one after 909
Oh!

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.

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