Your favorite Beatles/John Lennon, McCarthney(sp?) song/s?

[acacab]

I agree that it's a great thread but an impossible choice!

How about I pick my favourite 53 rather than just one? lol

A John Lennon song that hasn't been mentioned is Beautiful Boy, which he wrote for his son. IMO it's even better than Imagine.

There is another youtube vid that shows Paul listening to this song sometime after John was killed. You can see the emotion sweeping over him and he begins to tear up, turning from the camera a bit. It is very touching.

[JamesHunt]

A Day In The Life

found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream, aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh..........

luv it

[acacab]

It could be said that George Harrison would have been better off if he hadn't been a Beatle, because he was overshadowed, maybe even kept down by John and Paul. His best Beatle songs were "Here Comes the Sun" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Otherwise I would choose Hey Bulldog, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Hey Jude, Let it Be, The Long and Winding Road, I'm Only Sleeping and A Day in the Life.

I won't argue with you about George being talented. Guitar Gently Weeps is probably in my top 5 beatles songs. The unfortunate thing back then was that it was all band-based...everyone was in a band. The other unfortunate thing is that George (from his interviews) was quite the shy fellow. He may have been kept down..but John was the ballsy "leader".

Some of George Martin's references suggest to me that this was a management/record company policy that was probably begun by Epstein and carried forward to Apple, by which time Lennon/McCartney were well established as the "hit factory." You have to remember that it wasn't until the late 60's that albums became important commercially and a valid art form in their own right (in pop, anyway, which was years behind jazz.) Most albums of the era are just collections of A and B sides. Harrison's writing was definitely more introspective (in a way that Lennon actually adopted later,) and I suspect he was just not encouraged in the early days because his stuff wasn't considered commercial enough, especially to Martin, who was very "old school" in that sense.

By the 70's all that had changed and people were expecting to hear a range of moods--and funnily enough the Beatles themselves were instrumental in causing that change, esp with Sgt Pepper, of course, but mostly with the White Album, which is the one everybody seems to forget but which was, for me anyway, their definitive work. It lost the relentless (and to me annoying) quality of mid-era albums like Revolver and Rubber Soul and had developed a maturity which, sadly, because of the internal tensions in the band, was never really followed through.

Interesting. I've read comments from John and Paul were they said that they just didn't George's stuff was worth more than two songs per record. Paul said that it wasn't until Abbey Road that he realized George's work was as good as theri own. And George was 3-4 years younger than John and Paul, too so there was that side of pecking order, too...George was only 27 when the band broke up!

[JamesHunt]

Nice song I think was penned by George.

[Realgirls4me]

Hmmm, I can't. It depends I suppose on the mood I am in at the time. One moment it could be, And Your Bird Can Sing, and the next it could be, The Ballad of John and Yoko. So many songs, and so many moods to accompany them.

[Realgirls4me]

Double posting. Oops.

[eclipsemint]

Strawberry Fields Forever
Hey Jude
Let It Be

Great post. Takes me back to learning guitar in my teens.