The Beatles

Released: March 18, 1996

Songwriter: Paul McCartney Lennon-McCartney

Producer: George Martin

[Verse 1]
I was alone, I took a ride
I didn't know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another kind of mind there
Ooh, then I suddenly see you (Ah-ahh)
Ooh, did I tell you I need you
Every single day of my life?

[Verse 2]
You didn't run, you didn't lie
You knew I wanted just to hold you (Ah-ahh, ah-ahh)
And had you gone, you knew in time
We'd meet again, for I had told you (Ah-ahh, ah-ahh)
Ooh, you were meant to be near me (Ah-ahh)
Ooh, and I want you to hear me
Say we'll be together every day

[Refrain]
Got to get you into my life
Somehow, some way

[Verse 3]
What can I do, what can I be?
When I'm with you I want to stay there (Ah-ahh, ah-ahh)
If I'm true, I'll never leave
And if I do, I know the way there (Ah-ahh, ah-ahh)
Ooh, then I suddenly see you (Mhmm-mm)
Ooh, did I tell you I need you (Mhmm)
Every single day of my life

[Refrain]
Got to get you into my life
Somehow, some way

[Short interlude]
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

[Chorus]
Into my life
Uh-somehow, some way

[Outro]
Got to get you into my life
Oh-oh-oh
Uh-hear me, ooh
Doo-doo (Dee-dee-dee)
Doo-ooh-ooh-ooh
(Dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-dee)
Uh-doo-doo

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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