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The Beatles' 'Here Comes the Sun' Surpassed 1 Billion Streams Despite Not Being a Single.

The Beatles' most streamed song on Spotify, "Here Comes the Sun," has 1,843,025,190 streams, surpassing all their other hits, despite never being released as a single.

You might think that a band's most streamed songs on Spotify would also be their biggest hits...but that's actually not always the case. Take the Beatles, for example. Considering the iconic band had a whopping 20 tunes go all the way to #1 on the charts (and 34 Top 10 hits), it would make sense if the only Beatles song on Spotify to have over a billion streams would be among those chart-toppers. As it turns out, however, the Fab Four's most streamed song never even made a showing on the Billboard Hot 100.

George Harrison's Abbey Road (1969) masterpiece, "Here Comes the Sun," currently has 1,843,025,190 streams on Spotify, more than any other Beatles song; in second place is "Let It Be" with 957,259,543, while "Come Together" is in third place with 965,933,617. But while "Come Together" and "Let It Be" were both released as singles, from Abbey Road and Let It Be, respectively, "Here Comes the Sun" was not.

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As fans of The Beatles are aware, the beloved British group wasn't afraid to write about a plethora of topics, ranging from octopuses ("Octopus's Garden") to a fictitious band ("Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"). So it shouldn't be all that surprising that one of the songs off of 1968's White Album was based on singer and bassist Paul McCartney's dog, Martha.

During a 1968 interview with Radio Luxembourg, McCartney shared some insight into penning said tune, titled "Martha My Dear." He explained he didn't intend to write a song that focused on the Old English Sheepdog.

"You see, I just start singing some words with a tune, you know what I mean. I don't ever write a song thinking, 'Now I'll write a song about...' I do sometimes, but mainly I don't. Mainly I'm just doing a tune, and then some words come into my head, you know. And these happened to be 'Martha My Dear, though I spend my days in conversation.' It doesn't mean anything, you know, but those just happened to come to my head," said the famed musician, now 83.

He clarified that the song "is about [his] dog" and suggested that some listeners have thought otherwise.

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While Ringo Starr is a familiar face to many as the drummer for The Beatles, not to mention his impressive solo music career, he also has some talented children who most people don't know much about. After getting married to his first wife, Maureen Cox, in 1965, the couple welcomed three children. First came sons Zak and Jason Starkey, with the couple's only daughter, Lee Starkey, born in 1970. Although she hasn't spent too much time in the public eye, based on what we've seen over the years, Lee has grown up to be a beautiful woman, looking like the perfect mix of her parents.

Despite having such a famous father, Lee has lived quite a private life. She occasionally attends events in support of Starr or stuff happening in the world of fashion and music in London, but isn't in the spotlight often. Even with so few photos of Lee, it's easy to see that she inherited her parents' good looks. Her intense eyes are just like her mother's, as is her rounder face shape. Meanwhile, her smile seems to be all Starr.

Lee wore her hair dark for most of her upbringing, taking on an edgier look that made her similarities to Starr and Cox more striking. At one point, she even experimented with pink hair. As an adult, Lee has tak details

More than six decades after Beatlemania, Ringo Starr, 85, is still as busy as ever. One of the most beloved figures in rock music, the former Beatles drummer is still dazzling fans with his perfect rhythm and affable onstage personality. But Starr's recent tour stop in San Jose, California, left fans completely stunned by the icon's appearance.

"The dude looks 45," commented one fan on a social media post shared to TikTok of Starr's performance of the Beatles hit "I Wanna Be Your Man." Wearing white jeans and a star-themed jacket, with his hair long and his signature sunglasses in place, the famed drummer seems to defy his age with his timeless looks.

"He takes good care of himself," noted one commenter. 

Another added, "No one ever told Ringo he was supposed to get old, and since it didn't occur to him naturally, he simply hasn't bothered."

Other fans attributed Starr's youthful energy and appearance to doing what he loves.  Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band—including Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette, and Buck Johnson—wrapped up an early summer tour in which they performed a mix of Beatles classics, solo hits, and songs from fellow ban details

John Lennon believed that the important nuances about that relationship were lost in the public discourse, as an interview from 1975 shows.

George Martin was instrumental in transforming The Beatles into the global pop phenomenon they are known as today. For example, Rolling Stone wrote in 2016 that it was Martin who convinced Paul McCartney to "grab an acoustic guitar and just sing" what would become "Yesterday", when the band didn't know how to materialize the song that came to McCartney in a dream. He also introduced a string quartet to the band, Rolling Stone added.

In an interview with BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test, John Lennon argued that neither The Beatles nor George Martin were solely responsible for the band's magic. Both parties had their fill of work and benefited from each other's input (transcribed by Ultimate Guitar):

"It's hard to describe the relationship. They either say 'Martin did everything,' or 'The Beatles did everything.' It was neither one. George had done little to no rock and roll when we met him, and we'd never been in the studio, so we did a lot of learning together."

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They were best friends since they were teenagers. Together they wrote some of the greatest songs the world has ever known. In 1971, they tried to destroy each other, one record at a time.

By the time Paul McCartney released Ram in May 1971, The Beatles had been done for just over a year. Those wounds were still very fresh. The lawyers had moved in and buried inside that new album was a line John Lennon just couldn't ignore.

"Too many people preaching practices / Don't let them tell you what you wanna be."

Those lyrics were a shot aimed directly at Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, at their protests, their activism and the whole new life they'd built together. The insult was subtle enough to deny, yet sharp enough to hurt.

Lennon wasn't in the mood to ignore it or let it go. "It starts off with 'too many people going underground. That was your first mistake. You took your lucky break and broke it in two,'" Lennon said later. "Now, if that doesn't mean what it says, I don't know what."

So Lennon sat down and wrote back his reply.

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There was a time during the Beatles’ rise to fame that Paul McCartney thought he had found the one place he could roam without being spotted.

During an interview on The Zane Lowe Show to discuss his deeply nostalgic new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, the 83-year-old musician shared memories of navigating the early days of Beatlemania alongside John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. When looking back at that “very intense period of time” in the Sixties when the band shot to the top of the charts worldwide, Lowe asked McCartney how he managed to “remain relatable” and enjoy his life under the spotlight.

“I remember once in the early days of the Beatles, we were kind of recognized most places, but me and Ringo went on holiday with our girlfriends then to Greece and nobody knew us,” McCartney said, recalling thinking at the time: “This is great. Wow, we must come back here more often. Even when we get really famous, we can always come to Greece and they’re never going to know us.” He added, “But, of course, that didn’t work.” Soon, their music — and faces — reached Greece and beyond.

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Fans of The Beatles may be aware of George Harrison's solo career, in which he quickly established himself as a successful artist in his own right. Shortly before and following the iconic group's breakup, the musician released a whopping 12 albums under his own name, with many of them enjoying critical acclaim, even more than five decades later.

In 1970, the Beatles' lead guitarist released All Things Must Pass, his third solo album and the first after the breakup of the legendary Liverpool four-piece. The record featured "My Sweet Lord," a song that has now taken the top spot on Grunge's list as the biggest No. 1 hit of 1970.

The track is arguably Harrison's most famous song after it left him in the middle of a huge music scandal that has gone down in history. In 1971, less than a year after the release of "My Sweet Lord," Harrison was accused of plagiarizing The Chiffons' 1963 song "He's So Fine."

Bright Tunes Music, the owners of "He's So Fine," sued the former member of The Fab Four, and the legal battle was dragged out for decades after his former manager, Allen Klein, purchased Bright Tunes and subsequently became the one to be suing his previous client.

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It’s incredible to think that just six and a half years after the Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, had peaked at a modest 17 in the UK chart, the band that went on to shake the foundations of popular culture were trying to find the right words to say goodbye.

The Fab Four’s final year had kicked off in a flurry of activity, with the writing and recording of the Let it Be LP documented in real-time by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, throughout January 1969.

Beginning at Twickenham Studios before relocating to the Apple Corps studios at 3 Savile Row, the events of that frosty month would become the stuff of legend.

Although intended to be a quite innovative, fly-on-the-wall insight into the songwriting process of the world’s favourite band, which would culminate in a triumphant return to the stage, Lindsay-Hogg’s final edit of the film depicted the Beatles as a band fast running out of road. Their slow demise was seemingly inevitable, or so the footage that made up the spirit-crushing 1970 docu-movie, Let it Be, suggested.

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Paul McCartney’s new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane is out now. Many of the songs were inspired by his childhood and experiences with former Beatles bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who joins him for a duet on the song “Home to Us.” While Lennon and Harrison are gone, Paul said there’s one thing that gives him some comfort about that loss.

Speaking to The Guardian, McCartney said of Lennon, “My collaborator was probably one of the best writers of the century, so, yeah, you’re going to miss him. … But that’s life: you lose people.” He also recalled Beatles producer George Martin telling him about aging, “The terrible thing about it is all your mates start popping off.”

“Now I’m probably at that age, and I’m very conscious of that, having lost John and George – two big touchstones for anything we’re talking about [in this interview],” he continued. He adds “So, yeah, you do miss them. I start to get very sad, and I have to think, ‘Wow, wait a minute, everyone misses them.’ It’s not just me. So that makes me feel a bit better.”

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In 1963, The Beatles released “Twist And Shout”, a song that would become one of their biggest hits. Written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell, “Twist And Shout” is on both Introducing…The Beatles, their first record in the United States, and Please Please Me, The Beatles’ debut record released in the United Kingdom.

Before The Beatles recorded “Twist And Shout”, it was first released by R&B group, The Top Notes in 1961. One year later, The Isley Brothers released “Twist And Shout”, a version that inspired The Beatles to put their own spin on the song. Unfortunately, singer John Lennon was ill when they recorded “Twist And Shout”, making it a challenge for him in the studio.

Lennon was already suffering from a cold when The Beatles went in to record “Twist And Shout”. Struggling with a sore throat, The Beatles were at the end of a 12-hour studio session when they decided to record “Twist And Shout”.

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For Paul McCartney, songwriting isn’t only a job, a craft and an emotional outlet. It’s a compulsion and a craving.

“People say, ‘Well, why do you still write songs?’ And it’s just because I love it. I’m addicted,” he said in an interview at Boulevard Carroll, a warren of recording and rehearsal studios on Manhattan’s Far West Side, where McCartney, 83, had just wrapped up an afternoon of band practice for the season finale of “Saturday Night Live.” “Out of a black hole comes forth milk and honey. And it’s so great, the feeling.”

Prolific as he has been — through the Beatles, Wings and solo albums — McCartney doesn’t follow any songwriting discipline or routine. “I’ll just be somewhere, and with some time to spare, and my guitar will be there, or I’ll be near a piano. And the urge will take me,” he said. “Whenever I’ve hit something, it’s just like, ooh, wow. It’s a great feeling. You know, the whole creative thing is a great thing. I say it beats working.”

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Paul McCartney has finally made the admission all Beatles fans have been waiting for – that the quartet are the greatest band across the universe.

The musician, 83, has always modestly claimed that the best singer-songwriters of all time were crooning duo The Everly Brothers, whose songs included “Cathy’s Clown” and “All I Have to Do is Dream”.

However, in a TikTok Q&A interview ahead of his new record, McCartney revealed he feels fine saying The Beatles – made up of McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – probably pip them to the post.

“It is phenomenal, it is really phenomenal,” he said of the band’s stratospheric success.

“When we started out, we were just kids, and rock and roll was just really coming in, and we thought, ‘If we’re lucky, we’ve got a couple of years’ – that’s how long people normally lasted. They couldn’t really sustain much more after that.“

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In the wake of his 2016 death, Prince left behind an enviable vault containing thousands of unreleased songs, most of which will likely never see the light of day. While the late musician’s estate has shared a few selections from the collection over the years, there’s one in particular that Paul McCartney is hoping they’ll come around to releasing: a cover Prince recorded of the Beatles‘ Let It Be single, “The Long and Winding Road.”

“I was with some guy couple of years ago, so it was after Prince had died, and this guy said, ‘Have you heard Prince do ‘Long and Winding Road?'” McCartney said on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years. “I said, ‘Well, no, that’s one of my songs. I don’t think he ever did it.’ He said, ‘Well, he did. He did it in rehearsal. He was rehearsing it for something.’ So, he said, ‘I’ll send it to you if you want.’ He sent it to me and it’s really great.”

The guy, McCartney believes, was a personal photographer for Prince. He described the recording as “kind of rocky,” adding, “He plays some really good guitar on it.” McCartney proposed details

With Paul McCartney releasing his first solo album in over five years, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and the Beatles’ four-film biopic’s main cast already announced, it seems only natural that the actor who’s transforming into Macca – Paul Mescal – had a chat with the legend about his songwriting process. And luckily for the rest of us, it was captured on camera.

“I teach some kids up in my old school in Liverpool, and that's like the first thing [they ask]. I don't know how to do this, which is not very inspiring. I haven’t got a formula,” McCartney tells Mescal.

“They used to ask me and John [Lennon], ‘How’d you do it? Who writes the music, who writes the words?’ I don’t know. To me, I think any story or song you’re gonna do, it’s gotta involve memory. With the Beatles, we always tried to write something different.”

Lennon still serves as a source of inspiration for McCartney – especially considering his upcoming album turns a lens inward and revisits the formative years that not only shaped his own life but the very foundation of the Beatles.

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