The Beatles

Released: December 15, 1967

Songwriter: Ringo Starr George Harrison Paul McCartney John Lennon

Producer: George Martin

Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again

Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells "out"

Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again

Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells "out"

Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again
Christmas time is here again

Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells "out"

This is Paul McCartney here. I'd just like to wish you everything you'd wish yourself for Christmas
This is John Lennon saying, on behalf of The Beatles, have a very Happy Christmas and a good New Year
George Harrison speaking. I'd like to take this opportunity of wishing you a very Merry Christmas, listeners everywhere
This is Ringo Starr and I'd just like to say Merry Christmas and a really happy New Year to all listeners

And Christmas time is all
And your bonnie clay us through
Happy breastling to you people
All our best from me to you
When the beasty brangom
To the heather and little inn
And be strattened oot in ma tether
To yer arms once back again
Och away, ye bonnie

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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