The Beatles

Released: March 4, 1996

Songwriter: John Lennon

Producer: Jeff Lynne

[Verse 1]
All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dreams
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all they really were doing
Was waiting for love

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Don't need to be alone
No need to be alone

[Chorus 1]
It's real love
It's real
Yes, it's real love
It's real

[Piano interlude]

[Verse 2]
From this moment on I know
Exactly where my life will go
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for love

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Don't need to be afraid
No need to be afraid

[Chorus 2]
It's real love
It's real
Yes, it's real love
It's real

[Guitar solo: George Harrison]

[Verse 3]
Thought I'd been in love before
But in my heart, I wanted more
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

[Pre-Chorus 3]
Don't need to be alone
Don't need to be alone

[Chorus 3]
It's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real

Yes it's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real

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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