Released: June 19, 1964

Songwriter: Robert Blackwell Enotris Johnson Little Richard

Producer: George Martin

[Verse 1]
I'm going to tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John
He says he had the misery it but he got a lot of fun
Oh baby
Yeeeah now baby
Woooooh baby
Some fun tonight

[Verse 2]
I saw Uncle John with long tall Sally
He saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley
Oh baby
Yeeeeah now baby
Woooooh baby
Some fun tonight

[Guitar solo]

[Verse 3]
Well long tall Sally built pretty sweet
She got everything that Uncle John needs
Oh baby
Yeeeah now baby
Woooooh baby
Some fun tonight

[Guitar solo]

[Outro]
Well, we're going to have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight
Everything's alright
Have some fun tonight
Have some fun, yeah yeah yeah
We're going to have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight
Everything's alright
Have some fun tonight
Yeah, we'll have some fun, some fun tonight

The Beatles

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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