The Beatles

Released: September 27, 2019

Featuring: Billy Preston

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney John Lennon

Producer: George Martin

[Intro]
She...!

[John] It's the case of one awful one after another!
What's it the case of, Mr. Martin?

[George Martin] Take four was very good up to the breakdown...

[John] Which was take four?

[George Martin] ...and it was very good until the end bit there when Paul did his bit that wasn't quite right

[John] My boys are ready to go!

[Glyn Johns] John?

[John] Yes? What?

[Glyn Johns] It is possible without affecting yourselves too much to turn down a little? Apparently there's been a complaint

[John] From who?

[Glyn Johns] From somebody outside the building

[John] What are they doing here at this time of night?

[Ringo] It's that guy

[John] What guy?

[Ringo] The last time, he complained...

[Paul] It's his own fault for getting a house in such a lousy district!

[John] Well, we'll try it once more very loud
And if we don't get it, we'll try it quiet like you might do it the other way
Okay, the loud one, last go
Last chance to be loud!

[George Harrison] Who says?

[John] Can't quite see through these now
I just can't see them, they keep merging

One-two-three, one-two-three

[Verse]
I want you
I want you so bad, baby
I want you
I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
It's driving me...

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you
You know I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
Yeah!

[Chorus]
She's so...

[Instrumental Outro]

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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