The Beatles

Released: March 18, 1996

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney Paul McCartney John Lennon

Producer: George Martin

[Chorus 1]
If you've got trouble
Then you got less trouble than me
You say you're worried
You can't be as worried as me (Oh oh)

[Chorus 2]
You're quite contend to be bad
With all the advantage you had over me
Just because you're trouble
Then don't bring your troubles to me

[Verse]
I don't think it's funny
When you ask for money and things
Especially when you're standing there
Wearing diamond and rings (Oh oh)

You think I'm soft in the head
Well try someone softer instead anything
It's not so funny
When you know what money can bring

[Chorus 3]
You better leave me alone
I don't need a thing from you
You better take yourself home
Go and count a ring or two

[Chours 1]

[Chorus 2]

(Ah rock on, anybody)

[Chorus 3]

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]

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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