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The first single to sell over two million copies in the UK …

What has to be among the greatest ironies in any Beatles song, John’s apparent directive in the vocal to Come Together, to ‘Shoot Me’.

When it comes to B-sides, nobody made ‘em better than the Beatles.

At first the song was called Bad Finger Boogie …

George wrote ‘Don’t Bother Me’, while sick in bed at a hotel in Bournemouth, as an exercise to see if he could even write a song.

If you prefer the sound of music, to the sound of a ringing phone …

David Crosby of The Byrds is visiting in the studio on this evening …

Paul had George Harrison to thank for the line “if we ever get out of here”.

Whether she was good to go in the sack, or on a train trip to a seaside town …

Thought by some to be a reference to heroin …