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''The love you make''
▲{{quote|''And in the end<br />
▲The love you take<br />
▲Is equal to<br />
▲The love you make''|"[[Grand Finale|The End]]"}}
''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (
▲Four lads from Liverpool -- [[John Lennon (Music)|John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney (Music)|Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison (Music)|George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr (Music)|Ringo Starr]] -- who released some albums in [[The Sixties]], and are credited by many for changing the face of rock music, while for others they were at least major pioneers of the new style of pop rock, and a major force of [[The British Invasion]]. For many people, they are also the face of [[The Sixties]]. Which is not bad work, really.
The Beatles were the first band in history to make music video equivalents to their own songs, which every musician does now. They played themselves in three fictional films: the [[Mockumentary|pseudo-documentary]] ''[[A Hard
▲''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Music)|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' is considered by many critics to be the greatest album in history and is credited with really changing the way people listened to pop music; it also has one of the most parodied and homaged album covers in the history of music. The simpler image on the cover of ''Abbey Road'' of [[Abbey Road Crossing|the band walking in near-lockstep across the street]] is a close competitor for most homaged cover, as is the half-shadowed band portrait that was used on the British album ''With the Beatles'' and its American [[Equivalent/Macekre|Macekre]] ''Meet the Beatles''.
▲The Beatles were the first band in history to make music video equivalents to their own songs, which every musician does now. They played themselves in three fictional films: the [[Mockumentary|pseudo-documentary]] ''[[A Hard Days Night (Film)|A Hard Days Night]]'' (1964), the [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] parody ''[[Help (Film)|Help]]'' (1965), and the critically-panned surrealist television film ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (Film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' (1967); they were also the subject of the [[Documentary]] film ''[[Let It Be (Film)|Let It Be]]'' (1970). Their [[Celebrity Toons]] equivalents starred in two very different [[Band Toon|Band Toons]], each with a distinct set of character designs for the Fab Four. [[The Beatles (Animation)|Their wacky 1965]] [[Animated Series]] was the first made-for-TV cartoon based on a real band (or any real people), and therefore both the [[Ur Example]] and [[Trope Maker]]. Meanwhile, the 1968 feature ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]]'' brought kid-friendly psychedelic imagery to the masses.
The band broke up in 1970 under [[Creative Differences|circumstances painful to think about]]. Everyone went on to solo careers. The dissolution was finalized in 1974, but Apple Corps (the Beatles' management company) was left intact. For perhaps fifteen years, few people saw any purpose for that...
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But then a second wave of Beatlemania gradually hit -- too late for John Lennon, who sadly had been getting the [[Dead Artists Are Better]] effect since 1980 when he was murdered by a crazed fan, but everyone else got to see it. The events leading to this, in order: the initial release of the British Beatles catalog on CD in 1987; Paul McCartney finally embracing his Beatles heritage fully in 1989, in the process settling the last couple of lawsuits and freeing Apple Corps to ''act''; and most noticeably, ''The Beatles Anthology'' in 1995, with Beatles singles "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" (though the latter [[Covered Up]] a Lennon version). Since then, Beatles-related stuff has come out just often enough to keep second-generation fans on their toes and the fandom active and aggressive.
George Harrison died of cancer in 2001. Sir Paul McCartney (he was knighted in 1997 and handled it in a way that ensured ''no one'' would let him [[Never Live It Down|live it down]]) and Ringo Starr are still out there touring, doing a bunch of miscellaneous projects, and occasionally making records -- and they both still write
The legacy lives on. An installment of ''[[Rock Band]]'' was made featuring Beatles songs and ''only'' Beatles songs. Not quite coincidentally, the entire catalog has been remastered and was
After years of legal disputes having to do with the "Apple" label, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|iTunes has added Beatles music in 2010!]]<ref>[http://www.cnet.com/news/the-beatles-come-to-itunes-at-last/#! CNET article]</ref>▼
On December 24 2015, their music became available on most streaming services.<ref>[http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35166985 BBC News article]</ref>
▲After years of legal disputes having to do with the "Apple" label, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|iTunes has added Beatles music in 2010!]]
Their complete discography (as available in the 9/9/09 remastered box sets) is:▼
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▲{{discography|Their complete discography (as available in the 9/9/09 remastered box sets) is:}}
* ''Please Please Me'' (1963)
* ''With The Beatles'' (1963)
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* ''Rubber Soul'' (1965)
* ''Revolver'' (1966)
* ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
* ''Magical Mystery Tour'' (1967)
* ''The Beatles'', better known as "[[
* ''Yellow Submarine'' (1969) Although only four of the songs ("Only a Northern Song", "Hey Bulldog", "All Together Now", "It's All Too Much") are not preexisting material from previous albums, the existence of this new material, as well as the flip-side original instrumental orchestral soundtrack by producer and "fifth Beatle" George Martin, makes the soundtrack officially a Beatles album instead of a compilation.
* ''Abbey Road'' (1969)
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* ''The Beatles 20 Greatest Hits'' (LP and cassette only -- it was an inadequate [[Greatest Hits Album]] collection; out of print)
* ''Rarities'' (LP and cassette only; out of print. The song choices were different in the UK (released 1979) and US (1980) versions, since some songs (and song mixes) had been released in one country but not the other.)
* ''Love Songs'' (LP and cassette only; out of print)
* ''The Star Club Tapes'' (The live album that just won't go away)
* ''Live at the BBC'' (1994) (The first new compilation after Apple got its act together)
* ''The Beatles Anthology, Volumes 1, 2 and 3'' (1995-1996) (Each volume is a two-CD set containing previously unreleased material from the archives, much of it having appeared on the ''Ultra Rare Trax'' bootleg CD series in the late 1980s. An earlier collection, ''Sessions'', would have brought some of the recordings to the public in 1984, but the surviving Beatles vetoed the album at the last minute.)
* ''[[
* ''1'' (2000) (Greatest Hits album that compiled virtually every #1 single from the UK and US from '62 to '70)
* ''Let It Be... Naked'' (2004) (remix of ''Let it Be'' closer to the original, abortive ''Get Back'' album, and shorn of Phil Spector's production changes)
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Numerous tribute, soundtracks, and cover albums:
* ''[[Across the Universe (
* ''[[I Am Sam]]'', a [[Sean Penn]] movie whose mentally disabled protagonist loves the Beatles
* ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', a 1978 [[Jukebox Musical]]
▲=== The Beatles are the [[Trope Namers]] for: ===
* [[Abbey Road Crossing]] (The album cover from ''Abbey Road'')
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]] (Although [[
* [[Day in
* [[
* [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]] ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds")
* [[Magical Mystery Doors]] ("Magical Mystery Tour")
* [[The Pete Best]] (Mr. Best himself)
* [[The Walrus Was Paul]] ("Glass Onion")
* [[Yoko Oh No]] (John's wife [[
▲=== The Beatles provide examples of the following tropes: ===
▲* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam.
** Bungalow Bill and Rocky Raccoon. And Sexy Sadie.
** "''W''hisper ''w''ords of ''w''isdom, let it be..."
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: John, Paul, George, and...[[Stage Name|Ringo?]]
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: [[
** And [[The Monkees (
** With the Beatles being as popular and as influential as they were, there are literally more of these than can be counted. There's an episode of ''[[
* [[Age Progression Song]]: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".
* [[Album Filler]]: McCartney admitted that "Hold Me Tight" off ''With the Beatles'' was this.
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** From ''Rubber Soul'', "Wait" was a song that remained from the ''Help!'' sessions.
** Sometimes John composed songs just because he didn't have enough in the record (such as "Run for Your Life" in ''Rubber Soul'', "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" in ''Sgt. Pepper's'').
** And of course, there's "[[
** The inclusion of "Across the Universe" and "One After 909" on ''Let It Be'' couldn't be anything but filler. The former was released as a single long before ''Let It Be'' was released, and the latter was one of the first songs Lennon and McCartney had ever written (it was never included on an album because they were never satisfied with it).
*** "Dig It" from the same album was certainly that. When the album was remixed as ''Let It Be... Naked'' in 2002, it was even dropped from the track list.
* [[Alternate Reality Episode]]: "We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..."
* [[And Starring]]: Billy Preston's work on keyboards with the band during the ''Get Back'' sessions earned him a special credit; the "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist.
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''[[The Beatles (
* [[Disney Owns This Trope|Apple Corps Owns This Trope]]: Apple Corps and Apple (Computer) Inc. had an argument dating back to the 1980s over the use of the name "Apple". The two companies finally came to an agreement, however, and as of November 16, 2010, you can buy the Beatles' music on iTunes.
* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!", its lyrics being drawn from a Victorian circus poster.
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** Recordings of their late live performances indicate just how sick they were of touring, with many of their songs being played at near-double speed, in order to get the concert over and done with as quickly as possible.
** George Harrison in particular was vocal about how, for him at least, the appeal of being a Beatle had worn off around 1966-1967, because of the above and because he was getting tired of Lennon and McCartney constantly treating him as the younger sibling of the group with regards to his own efforts at writing.
* [[Artistic Stimulation]]/[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** The boys have admitted that the majority of their movie ''[[Help!]]!'' was filmed in "a haze of marijuana," and that this was part of the reason that they didn't bother to take much creative control of the movie.
* [[As Long
* [[Badass Boast]]: "When I was a Beatle, I thought we were the best fucking group in the goddamn world."--John Lennon, 1980
* [[Ballad of X]]: "The Ballad of John and Yoko"
* [[Band Toon]]: As noted above.
* [[The Beat Generation]]: The name of the band was partially inspired by the Beats and Lennon in particular named [[Jack Kerouac]] as an influence. [[Allen Ginsberg]] later on became friends with the band, with [[Paul McCartney]] actually playing guitar on one of Ginsberg's albums.
* [[Bifauxnen]]: "Well you should see Polythene Pam/She's so good-looking but she looks like a man..."
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]]/[[Blasphemous Boast]]: The [[Trope Namer]] came from a John Lennon interview in which [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|he did NOT say]] "we're bigger than Jesus" but rather "we're ''more popular'' than Jesus now". Given the intensity of Beatlemania, that was a defensible statement. It still garnered a great amount of ill will from the kinds of people who weren't inclined to like The Beatles in the first place--mostly religious fundamentalist types from the American South. The protests that dogged The Beatles over their American tour played no small part in convincing them to give up touring for good.
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* [[The British Invasion]]: They launched it. They were the first success.
* [[Broken Record]]: "Wild Honey Pie" ("HONEY PIE! HONEY PIE!") and "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", widely considered to be [[Incredibly Lame Pun|White]] [[Album Filler]].
** Also from "[[
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** ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' contained a few seconds of audio in the usually-empty runout groove of the record. On players that didn't have automatic pickup arm return (fairly common for cheaper players in the 1960s), this would loop forever, or until you got sick of it and turned it off.
** The lyrics of the last four minutes of "Hey Jude" consist entirely of "Na, na na, na na na na, na na na na, Hey Jude" being repeated. Nineteen times.
** "Blue Jay Way" ends with variations of a certain phrase being repeated 18 times. The phrase? "Don't be long."
** "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" ends with several minutes of the same guitar riff repeated over and over and over and over until it comes to a dead stop mid-way thr
* [[B
** Sometimes they had two songs that were so strong they wouldn't even say one was the A and the other the B: "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper", and, even more powerfully, "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane". This practice was invented by the Beatles, and is now usually referred to as a "Double-A Side".
* [[Call-and-Response Song]]: "It Won't Be Long", "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Getting Better", "Baby You're a Rich Man" and many others.
* [[Call Back]]: In the middle of "Carry That Weight" they break into a new verse of an earlier '
** The lyrics of "Glass Onion" consist almost entirely of references to the band's previous songs, including "I Am the Walrus", "She Loves You", "The Fool on the Hill", "Fixing a Hole", and "Strawberry Fields Forever". In the latter case the song even includes a little snatch of flute as a musical echo of the original's introduction.
** "She Loves You" is also quoted at the end of "All You Need Is Love"
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** "[[Spelling Song|O-U-T spells out]]" - "Christmastime is Here Again"
** "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band":
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* [[Careful
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: During the sixties and since 1989. A re-release by the Beatles is as newsworthy as a new release by [[
** [[Crack is Cheaper]]: Lowest "introduction" package is at least $250 for the [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|2009 remasters box set]] (stereo<ref>Every album in stereo, whether it was originally mixed in stereo or not ([[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]], as some would say)</ref> or mono<ref>Every album originally in mono, a form which many consider purest to the group's intent. However, you don't get any albums that were originally in stereo</ref>--many aficionados will argue that you really need both) and DVDs of ''[[A Hard
** For the technically-minded Beatles fans and music recording geeks, there is the handy, epic tome ''Recording The Beatles
* [[Celebrity Toons]]: As noted above.
* [[Christmas Episode]]/[[Missing Episode]]: The Beatles sent flexidiscs with holiday greetings and [[Sketch Comedy]] to their fan club between 1963 and 1969, which were compiled onto an LP (also a fan club exclusive) in 1971. All these releases are long out of print. They've never been legally available to the general public, except for the first one, which is unlockable content in ''The Beatles: [[Rock Band]]''.
** An edited version of the 1967 message ("Christmas Time Is Here Again", the closest they ever came to doing an actual [[Christmas Songs]]) was, however, officially released as a B-side of the "Free as a Bird" single in 1995.
** [[wikipedia:Carnival of Light|"Carnival of Light"]] is an experimental track and [[Missing Episode]]. It's (probably) still floating around out there somewhere.
*** Paul McCartney apparently has the recording and keeps making noises about releasing it. George Harrison supposedly vetoed it when he was still alive, but a decade later and it's still nowhere to be found. With as many leaked studio sessions and bootleg albums as there are out there, it'a arguably one of the last truly rare Beatles recordings left.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: John Lennon is suspected to have been one of these.
* [[Comically Small Bribe]]: In 1976, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' producer Lorne Michaels jokingly offered the ex-Beatles $3,000 to reunite and appear on the show.
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** According to John Lennon in a 1980 interview, Paul was visiting John in New York City (during one of their very few friendly meetings post-breakup) and they were actually watching SNL. Apparently, they strongly [[What Could Have Been|considered going down to the studio]] but decided not to.
** George did show up in a subsequent episode in 1976, wherein he demanded the money. "$750 is pretty chintzy."
** The joke got replayed when Paul McCartney did ''SNL'' in 1993 -- apparently, he was hoping his touring band would also get paid. Good thing Alec Baldwin was there... (Or was it [[30 Rock
* [[Concept Album]]: ''Sgt. Pepper's'' is widely considered to be one of popular music's first concept albums, although there's little about it that intrinsically makes it such. Lennon admitted that after the first two songs they abandoned the "concept", picking it up only for the reprise of the title track.
* [[Concept Video]]: The Beatles were among the first to make music videos. The video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a [[Concept Video]].
** The scene in ''[[A Hard
* [[Continuity Nod]]: A few shout outs to older songs exist. Notably "Glass Onion", which seems to be built ''entirely'' on this. Others include:
** "I am The Walrus" - "See how they fly, like ''Lucy in the Sky''"
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** Cover songs were common practice in the pop industry for the time, and it was largely the Beatles who turned the tide towards original performances. Their third album (''A Hard Day's Night'') may not have been the first album of entirely original compositions, but it was one of the most important.
* [[Cut and Paste Translation]]: Before ''Sgt. Pepper'', Capitol Records of America released different Beatles albums than its parent company EMI/Parlophone, the original British publisher. Specifically, they removed songs from some albums to tack onto other albums; since the American albums held about ten songs and the British ones held about fourteen, there were two or three albums made from whole cloth. One of these, the 1966 release ''Yesterday... And Today'', was a compilation with "new" songs that had been issued the previous year in England, as well as rough mixes of three songs from the then-forthcoming ''Revolver''.
** [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]: The American cut of Rubber Soul inspired [[The Beach Boys
** All officially released versions of ''Let It Be'' are this compared to what the project was supposed to be. Phil Spector took the raw tapes and tried to hide flaws (real and imagined) under heavy orchestration. ''Let It Be... Naked'' doesn't use heavy orchestration, but ''does'' use something like ProTools. (For some reason, Paul McCartney tends to think it's okay to remove something from a recording if it was never meant to be there, even if it was there because of limitations in the tech at the time of recording. Normally, that would be fine for anyone who isn't a major audiophile; but John Lennon wanted the album to be raw and forbade ''George Martin'' from doing "producer tricks" on it!) Lennon later strongly defend Spector's remix of the album against McCartney's stringent protests, declaring the original ''Get Back'' album unlistenable.
** ''Past Masters'' 1 and 2 (now with the remasters, just one album), albums made entirely of singles which do not appear on any of their albums (including songs like "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Rain" and "Hey Jude"), also count. Unlike many examples of this trope, they're extremely important.
*** The second side of the ''Magical Mystery Tour'' LP is an earlier example of this, as was the ''Hey Jude'' compilation. Part of the problem was that American releases, in addition to be shorter than their British counterparts, tended to be centered around a popular single. Capitol generally refused to release an album that didn't include at least one hit single. EMI/Parlophone took the exact opposite approach, and few Beatles singles were included on their albums (at least not without substantial differences in mixing or arrangement, as was the case with "Revolution" and "Revolution 1"). Both the ''Past Masters'' disc and the US version of ''Magical Mystery Tour'' were released on CD in order that these tracks would be available on the medium in some form.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Gradually, as they earned more freedom to write songs not just for the money, became more jaded at the superficiality of fame and lust, and started using drugs. The definitive turning point was the single "Yesterday", which both dramatically went against their current image, and managed to be a great success. Their light and fluffy teen-pop image entirely dissipated after ''Rubber Soul'' came out.
* [[Days of the Week Song]]: "Lady Madonna" misses only Saturday.
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: John Lennon. While his musical accomplishments certainly can't be denied, he was a self-admitted [[Jerkass]] throughout his life. After his death, he was practically canonized from certain quarters. George also benefited from this following his passing.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: The original, infamous "butcher" cover of the album ''Yesterday and Today''. Also, at a stop in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXzTYExSLU Australia], there's a brief clip of them mockingly shouting "Deutschland uber alles!" at the adoring crowd, just to prove they could say or do just about ''anything'' and the fans would keep screaming.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: In [[Real Life]], all four of them were - their early press conferences consisted of approximately five smart-ass answers for every one serious answer to reporters' questions.
** They were from Liverpool, after all. It's in the water supply.
* [[Deconstructive Parody]]: [[Frank Zappa
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: "Back in the USSR" -- "take me to your daddy's farm". Individually owned farms did not exist in the USSR at the time.
** [[Double Subversion|Except they kinda did]], just not in a universally recognized way. [[It Makes Sense in Context|It's complicated.]]
* [[Distinct Double Album]]: ''The Beatles'' ("[[
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: I don't care how horrible [[Misogyny Song|the sentiments]] expressed in "Run For Your Life" are, John Lennon just makes them sound ''so damn cool''.
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: The two Beatles that didn't make the cut, [[The Pete Best]] himself (the only condition George Martin gave to hire the band was to replace him) and Stu Sutcliffe (who only bought a bass to join the band at John's insistance, and usually was facing backwards on stage to hide his lack of skill).
* [[Dr. Feelgood]]: "Doctor Robert".
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** "I want you, I want you so bad, I want yoooooouuuuu, I want you so bad, it's driving me mad, it's driving me mad..."
** "It's All Too Much", especially the blistering opening note.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: "Michelle" has a line in French, and a line in English, that mean the same ("these are words that go together well") and are sung to the same tune.
* [[Evolving Music]]: "Revolution 1" was initially recorded as a single, despite being a loping, ten-minute blues number that morphed into a chaotic sound collage. The Beatles decided to put this version aside, and instead recorded "Revolution" for the single - a faster, harder-rocking version of the same song. "Revolution 1" eventually appeared on ''[[
** John Lennon's "Child of Nature" was originally conceived and demoed by the band following their trip to India in 1968, but never released. Three years later both was rerecorded with entirely new lyrics and released as "Jealous Guy" on Lennon's ''Imagine'' album. Likewise, George Harrison's "Not Guilty" was originally recorded for the ''The Beatles'' ("[[
** A number of Beatles songs had their genesis in their early days but did not get album releases until much later into their career. "I'll Follow the Sun" and "Michelle" (released on ''Beatles for Sale'' and ''Rubber Soul'' in 1964 and 1965, respectively) date back to at least 1960, where it shows up on home recordings made by Paul McCartney. "The One After 909" even went through a number of studio takes in 1963 before being scrapped. It was returned to for the ''Let It Be'' album in 1970.
* [[Excited Show Title!]]: The movie, song, and soundtrack album--"Help!".
** Also "Oh! Darling" off of ''Abbey Road''.
* [[Expy]]: By Design ''[[The Monkees (
* [[Fading Into the Next Song]]: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" → "With a Little Help from My Friends". Then the "Sgt. Pepper" reprise → "A Day in the Life". "Back In the U.S.S.R." → "Dear Prudence" on ''[[
** Also, the B Side Medley on ''Abbey Road'', aside from "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" → "Golden Slumbers". SCITTBW fades out completely before GS starts up.
* [[Fake-Out Fade-Out]]: "Hello Goodbye", "Helter Skelter", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Free As a Bird".
* [[Falling Bass]]: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
* [[Fan Service]]: Pretty much the entire point of ''[[Help!]]!''
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Deliberately invoked with "I Am The Walrus," written after John received a letter from a student who attended Lennon's [[The Good Old British Comp|old primary school]] about an English master there who was forcing his students to analyse the band's [[Word Salad Lyrics]]. Upon finishing the song, Lennon turned to his friend and said "let the fuckers work that one out!"
** John couldn't completely avoid all symbolism in "I Am The Walrus"; one item which (accidentally?) crept in was "semolina pilchard", a [[Take That]] at Detective Norman Pilcher of the Drug Squad, who had it in for pop/rock stars.
* [[Sixth Ranger|The Fifth Beatle]]: Billy Preston was called this after he joined The Beatles for [[Let It Be]]. [[George Martin]], Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall, [[Brian Epstein]] and Stuart Sutcliffe have also been called "Fifth Beatle"'s.
* [[Le Film Artistique]]: ''[[
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Paul
** [[The Lancer]]: John. He was, however, pretty displeased about Paul assuming leadership of the band, since was he technically the one who started it.
** [[The Smart Guy]]: George
** [[The Big Guy]]/[[The Chick]] : Ringo
** [[The Obi-Wan]]: Brian Epstein
** [[Non-Action Guy]]/[[The Mentor]]: George Martin
* [[Flanderization]]: All of the Beatles were annoyed at the simplistic roles and stereotypes they were reduced to in the media as the 'Fab Four' (John the 'funny' one, Paul the 'handsome' one, George the 'quiet' one, Ringo the 'normal'/'dull'/'sad' one, etc).
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** "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" is probably the best example of this - both are in the key of G, both are full of special effects, neither uses that many chords, and neither is a love song. However, where "Paperback Writer" is a gritty, fast-paced, journalistic sorta-first person letter, "Rain" is a mystical, slow-paced third-person rant. It's even better if you compare both songs with "Taxman", Harrison's first song on the album that follows, which is again very similar and very different to both.
** "We Can Work It Out" is the best example of this, with Paul writing the optimistic, yet arrogant refrain - "Try to see it my way...We can work it out" - while John wrote the pessimistic "Life is very short, and there's no time..." middle eight (with the time signature change as George's sole contribution to the song).
* [[Four
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Paul is choleric, John--despite his witty, loud-mouthed, smart-aleck facade--was really melancholic, George was phlegmatic, Ringo is sanguine.
** Interestingly, early on their personas were presented as Paul being sanguine, John being choleric, George being melancholic, and Ringo being phlegmatic.
* [[Garfunkel]]: Ringo in public perception, though the band reported he was the one who kept them together.
** Furthermore, utterly [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in reality. The other three had tried and failed previously to lure him away from his job with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, with whom he was already wildly popular in the local music scene. It wasn't until the Beatles had secured a record deal that they had something to offer him that he didn't already have. The record deal, incidentally, specified that the Beatles could ''not'' keep the erratic Pete Best as drummer. The Beatles literally needed Ringo more than he needed them.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: When John's oldest son Julian tried to make it big as a pop star, many people felt that he was trying too hard to imitate the style of his father.
** Hell, everything about Julian Lennon. Both he and his father were born to parents too young and immature to raise a child; both were pretty much abandoned by their parents (though Julian did still live with his mother); and then, by the time they had mended their respective relationships, both times the parent gets killed by someone else. And Julian looks like his mother, Cynthia, and sounds a lot like his father.
** His younger half-brother Sean did better, at least from an artistic POV. Sean's 1998 indie rock effort ''Into the Sun'' was different enough from not only Julian's more pop efforts, but also the works of [[Oasis (
*** Sean unfortunately has decided to imitate his parents in his own [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822082516/http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2009/09/10/sean-lennon-rips-off-john-lennon/ pretty creepy way]. (Link NSFW).
** There's also Dhani Harrison, who is half of the alternative rock duo, thenewno2. And by the way, his voice sounds nearly identical to that of his father. And he somehow looks just like George.
*** He looks so much like George that during the big tribute concert that Eric Clapton arranged a year after George's death, Paul quipped that with Dhani onstage alongside himself, Ringo, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, and a lot of George's other longtime friends, "It looks like George stayed young and all the rest of us got old."
** Zak Starkey - Ringo's son - plays drums for both [[Oasis (
*** His style is a lot different, though; he owes a lot to Keith Moon, though without playing exactly like him. Might have helped that Keith was his godfather...
* [[Genre Roulette]]: The albums post ''Rubber Soul'' go everywhere: folk, psychedelic, Indian, avant-garde...
* [[God Is Love Song]]: "Long Long Long".
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Grand Finale]]: The Long Medley on Side Two of ''Abbey Road'', ending with, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Gratuitous Panning]]: Early stereo mixes of albums separated entire tracks to one side. All Beatles albums were mixed in mono and different people handled the stereo mixes. It wasn't until ''Abbey Road'' that they actually did an album in stereo (''Her Majesty'' starts entirely on the right, and moves until it's entirely on the left by the end of the song.)
** Capitol Records' "Duophonic" process, which artificially turned a lot of songs recorded in mono into pseudo-stereo. If you believe [[
*** You have every reason to believe Wikipedia. Capitol Records would take a mono recording, delay the right channel by a millisecond, play it through their famed echo chamber, and -- presto! -- fake stereo. Reportedly, Brian Wilson's father Murry ''preferred'' Duophonic, so much so that 8 of their albums were only available in mono or Duophonic.
* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: Several of them.
* [[Great White Hunter]]: "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill".
* [[Grief Song]]: "Let It Be" and "Julia" about Paul and John's mothers, respectively. "Baby's in Black" is about someone else's grief. "Yesterday" would be the most famous of quite a few "lost love" songs.
* [[Groupie Brigade]]
* [[Hello]]: Goodbye!
* [[Hidden Track]]:
** The weird cacophonous noise loop that comes after "A Day In The Life" on ''Sgt. Pepper'', if you count that as a song.
** "Her Majesty" on the end of the ''Abbey Road'' album. Possibly the [[Trope Maker]], being the first known song to be left at the end of an album after a period of silence, and without being listed as a track. (Later printings of ''Abbey Road'' include "Her Majesty" on the track list.)
** "Can You Take Me Back", the song fragment on Side 4 of ''[[
* [[Hot and Cold]]: Although male, John had a personality similar to this.
* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Leftie Ringo Starr played a right-handed drum kit.
* [[I Am the Noun]]: "I Am the Walrus".
* [[Idol Singer]]: They were in the beginning a cute-looking mass-marketed pop band with screaming female fans. [[George Harrison]] referred to the band in the Beatles Anthology movie as "[[Spice Girls
** Of course, even in their "mass-marketed pop band" days the Beatles wrote original material and played their own instruments, which doesn't really fit this trope.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: All four were skilled at giving smart assed answers to criticism, but Paul may have achieved the crowning moment at a 1965 press conference:
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* [[Intercourse
** Wait, "Revolution [[Mind Screw|9]]"? How is that -- ''what''?
* [[In the Style Of]]: A few. A notable one is "Rocky Raccoon," more or less an explicit semi
** "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is basically John doing [[
** Don't forget "If I Needed Someone" being in the style of [[
** Some of their early hits, like "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand", display an unmistakable [[
** "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" has, to some, always sounded like a forgotten Everly Brothers hit.
** "Honey Pie" is a direct homage to the British music hall style, so sayeth [[
** "Lady Madonna" was done in the style of Fats Domino, and was even covered by Fats himself.
** "I'm Down" is said to be the Beatles' rewriting of [[
* [[It Got Worse]]: For the band, after ''[[
* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: John Lennon's "Bigger than Jesus" comment, [http://beatlesnumber9.com/biggerjesus.html which was part of a much larger article], and came about because he was reading about religion at the time. It got misrepresented in an American Teen Magazine, resulting in the infamous controversy.
* [[Jerkass]]: John. He mellowed in the '70s, but he was a ''dick'' in the '60s.
** He did have his share of jerkass moments in the 70s (or so I've heard).
** He was described as an ADD monster.
** Reports of what a complete tool he could be are especially glaring in light of the modern picture of him as being St. John of Peace.
* [[Jerk
** Despite being an infamous control freak after "Sgt. Pepper", he did his best to hold the crumbling band together after manager Brian Epstein passed away.
** John's neglected son Julian has admitted that he was much closer with Paul than his father.
* [[Jukebox Musical]]: Three [[All The Tropes:There Is No Such Thing as Notability|of note]], not counting ''Yellow Submarine''.
** ''[[Sgt.
** ''LOVE'' (2006)
** ''[[Across the Universe (
*** Having said that, if you are a big fan of The Beatles in general and don't mind a few lyrical changes, you're bound to at least enjoy the songs.
** There's also "All this and World War II", which is a WWII documentary with covers of Beatles songs. It largely has a reputation for making no sense.
** A [[Broadway]] show called ''Beatlemania!'' was around in the 1980s. A home video release of it, however, was plagued with problems. Glenn Burtnik (who played [[Paul McCartney]] in the show) does many Beatles-themed tribute concerts nowadays.
* [[
* [[Last-Note Nightmare]]: Particularly "Long, Long, Long".
** "A Day in the Life"
** "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the canonical example. It fades out with a gorgeous swarmandel before fading back in with a dissonant mellotron, vicious drumming, trumpets that sound like ambulance sirens, and (most disturbingly) John Lennon's slowed-down voice saying "CRANBERRY SAUCE".
*** Even worse if you're a little kid and you think it's "I buried Paul." Ever since then, that song's end is the sound of death to her.
** "Helter Skelter" is a different sort of [[Last-Note Nightmare]], as it finishes with Ringo throwing his drumsticks across the room and ''screaming'' "'''I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!!'''" The version that wound up on
** The
** The manic laughing sound effect at the end of "Within You Without You", meant to bring relief to the heaviness of the lyrics. It didn't work.
* [[Lead Bassist]]: Sir Paul is a Type A, B, and C
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** ''The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl''. Out of print for many years.
* [[Lonely Funeral]]: "Eleanor Rigby" provides the page quote.
* [[Long Title]]: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and [[Everything's Better
** Also, "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill".
* [[Lounge Lizard]]: Paul's [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|hilariously sleazy]] nightclub crooning in "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)".
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** [[Broken Record|Number nine, number nine, number nine...]]
** The single, "Revolution", is a ''much'' faster and heavier (and louder) version of "Revolution 1". As Giles Martin said on the sleeve-notes for ''Love'', "even today it defines 'distortion'."
** " I Am The Walrus". [[
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]: ''The Beatles'' is all white, save for the name of the album embossed onto it, and a unique serial number stamped on it (going for a bit of [[Irony]] in something so plain also being unique from every other copy of it). Ever since, fans have called it "[[
* [[Misogyny Song]]: Amazingly, they have two notable ones:
** "You Can't Do That" (from the ''[[A Hard
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''I'm gonna let you down, ''
''And leave you flat''
''Because I told you before, OH,''
''You can't do that.'' }}
** ...though, it's pretty tame in comparison to "Run for Your Life" (from ''Rubber Soul''). At its heart, the message of this song is that if you decide to end a relationship with the singer, he will brutally murder you if you don't escape him first.
** In fact, [[
*** Lennon [[Word of God|also claimed]] that both "You Can't Do That" and "When I Get Home" (both on ''A Hard Days Night'') were his attempts to emulate American R&B star [[Wilson Pickett]]. "Run For Your Life" seemed to be a throwaway song written to fill out side 2 of ''Rubber Soul'', wih an opening line stolen from "Baby Let's Play House" (a blues song popularized by [[
* [[Mockumentary]]: The film ''[[A Hard
** [[
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: Mostly levels one through three, but there are a few individual songs that are harder.
* [[Momma's Boy]]: The titular character of "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" is "the all-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son." And behind that tough exterior, he really does rely on his mom's defense when people start to question him - hence why he always brings her along on hunting trips "in case of accidents."
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: The fact that the remastered albums and their [[Rock Band]] game were released on 9/9/09.<ref>"Number Nine... Number Nine... Number Nine..."</ref>
* [[National Health Service]]: Referenced in "Doctor Robert" (and also some of John's improv in their early work in Hamburg).
** Those glasses that Lennon made famous in the 1960s? Standard-issue National Health glasses.
* [[Never Learned to Read|Never Learned to Read Sheet Music]]
* [[New Sound Album]]: Pretty much every of one their albums from ''Rubber Soul'' forward could be considered one of these.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Paul's idea to get the band past the tensions of [[
* [[No Ending]]: Both sides of the ''Abbey Road'' album. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" ends abruptly in the middle of a riff, after three minutes of repeating the same sequence of chords. John Lennon told engineer Geoff Emerick to "cut it right there", and Emerick did. "Her Majesty" was originally slated between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam", but the band decided to delete it. The tape engineer who clipped it out of the master cut out the last crashing guitar chord of "Mean Mr. Mustard" along with "Her Majesty", but missing the last note of "Her Majesty", which was left at the beginning of "Polythene Pam". Then he spliced "Her Majesty" onto the end of the master tape after 14 seconds of silence, creating a [[Hidden Track]] that ends one note too soon. The band liked the effect and left it that way. (The cut was a test-run of the crossfading and editing sequence, on rough mixes, ''not'' the final edit (if you notice, in the album version the final chord of "Mean Mr. Mustard" is also missing but because the new sequence makes it redundant; the final chord of "Her Majesty" is totally absent though). The "Her Majesty" part, however, ''is'' the original clip tacked on to the final master just the same it was in the rough edit.)
* [[Non-Appearing Title]]: "A Day in the Life", "Tomorrow Never Knows", "The Ballad of John and Yoko", "The Inner Light", "Revolution 9".
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The "Remastered In Stereo" box set released in 2009 is not quite what the name says; "Only A Northern Song" from the ''[[
* [[The Notable Numeral]]: "The Fab Four".
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Manager Brian Epstein, who died shortly after "Sgt. Pepper". Major subversion, as his death is considered the beginning of the end for the group.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: "The Fool on the Hill". The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Oop North]]: They're from Liverpool, after all.
* [[Opinion Myopia]]: Yoko Ono's fans (which apparently exist, for some strange reason) really like to insist that the Beatles were just this brief, unimportant little project that John was fiddling around with, killing time until he met Yoko. They can't seem to grasp just why everyone acts like the Beatles were such a big deal when there's John and ''Yoko's'' work together to consider.
* [[Parody]]/[[Affectionate Parody]]: The song "Back in the USSR" is both a parody of Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA" and a decent imitation of the Beach Boys' distinctive "Surfing Sound".
** It's also suggested that it's a oblique (if not entirely affectionate) reference to Prime Minister Harold Wilson's "[[wikipedia:
* [[Performance Video]]: The Beatles were among the first to make music videos, and some of them are basically the band pretending to perform, such as the video for "Ticket to Ride."
* [[Please Select New City Name|Please Retain Old Street Name]]: Penny Lane in Liverpool is named not after the coin but after an 18th-century slave trader of that name. Were it not for the Beatles' song, it would have been renamed years ago.
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* [[Protest Song]]: Subverted with "Revolution", a protest about protestors (and specifically the Cultural Revolution with John's "Chairman Mao" reference".)
** Or maybe not. All versions of the song take a swipe at Mao, but Lennon's vocals in "Revolution 1" have a more ambivalent take on protest in general, with his introductory "don't you know that you can count me out" being immediately followed by a parenthetical "in".
** Played straight with "Taxman", a song protesting, uh, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Punny Name]]: Apple Corps. Especially since it's '''''always''''' spelled "Corps" (and thus pronounced "core"). John loved wordplay.
** And a [[Pun-Based Title]]: ''Rubber Soul'' (sole).
*** During the recording of "I'm Down" Paul self-criticised one of his takes as "plastic soul" (you can hear it in ''Anthology 2''). So ''Rubber Soul'' is actually a ''double'' pun.
*** Supposedly, Paul once overheard some black musicians using the term "plastic soul" to describe [[The Rolling Stones
** Another [[Pun-Based Title]] is ''Revolver''. [[What Are Records?|This one might take a second to figure out.]]
** Also, the name "Beatles" itself, though hardly anyone notices anymore, because everyone grows up knowing "The Beatles".
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: Fourteen years after John's death, the other three reunited for ''The Beatles Anthology''. During this time, Paul, George, and Ringo worked on fleshing out two of John's demos, "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love".
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The film ''[[Let It Be]]'' was originally conceived as a documentary of the Beatles' "rebirth" as a live performing band. Instead, by capturing the tension and infighting among the band members (including a famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoPWrooRSzY spat] between McCartney and Harrison), it became a chronicle of the band's break-up.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the choice of name. When originally conceived as a chronicle of the band's rebirth, the project was entitled "Get Back". By the time the pieces had been picked up and enough footage cobbled together to release as an album and film, it had metamorphosed into "Let It Be", effectively serving as the band's epitaph.
** A more benign example is the movie ''[[Help
** Real Life Writes the Song: "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!", "A Day in the Life", "She's Leaving Home", "Blue Jay Way", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", many others. Lennon in particular did this constantly.
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: The two different versions of "Revolution" released in 1968--the original low-key version, actually released second as "Revolution 1" on [[
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|"The Reason You Suck" Song]]: "Sexy Sadie" to the Maharishi, "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" to a [[Great White Hunter]] they met in Rishikesh who loved to shoot tigers in the wild.
* [[Record Producer]]: George Martin.
* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: Usually averted.
* [[Retraux]]: "Honey Pie" was already a song done [[In the Style Of]] [[Cole Porter]], but the effect is strengthened by having one line--"Now she's hit the big time"--sound like a scratchy old record being played on a tinny old record player.
* [[Rhyming
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!" was pretty much John just reading out a Victorian circus poster to a tune, and "A Day in the Life" was based on the headlines from a single day's newspaper.
** "She's Leaving Home" was also based on a newspaper article, about a girl running away.
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* [[Self-Backing Vocalist]]: Usually averted - the person who'd written the song took lead vocals (with some exceptions, especially involving the songs they gave to Ringo) and the other two (Ringo usually opted out) joined on harmonies. Exceptions were mostly Paul: "I Will", "Wild Honey Pie"... John also had a duet with himself (interpolating lines) on "Julia".
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: During many, many press conferences at the height of Beatlemania, all four members of the band frequently joked that they expected to flop at any moment. George Harrison also referred to himself and Ringo Starr as "economy-class Beatles," and in the 1980s freely described himself as "a middle-aged ex-pop star."
* [[Self-Titled Album]]: ''The Beatles'', although pretty much everyone knows it better as [[
* [[Serious Business]]: It eventually got to the point that they had to stop touring after 1966, because their fans would reach such levels of hysteria that not even the band itself could hear their music.
** Perhaps the ultimate case of [[Serious Business]] is the fact that John was murdered by one crazed fan, and George and his wife nearly stabbed to death by another.
** Speaking of whom, this trope is what he was really, genuinely talking about when he uttered the famous words destined to be taken out of context: "more popular than Jesus". Anyone who has heard more than that one sentence fragment of the interview will tell you that he was talking about what [[Serious Business]] the Beatles were becoming for the fans, to the point of absurdity, and how he was ''not'' comfortable with being taken so seriously.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The very name of the band was a Shout Out to [[
** The reference in "In My Life" to "lovers and friends/I still can recall/some are dead and some are living" is a Shout Out to Lennon's close friend and former bandmate, Stuart Sutcliffe, who died in 1962.
** "[[wikipedia:Elmore James|Elmore James]] ain't got nothin' on this baby!"
** "Julia"--guess what the Japanese for [[Yoko Ono|"ocean child"]] is?
** The cover to ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band'' is one of the most famous Shout Outs in history, filled with images of figures the Beatles regarded as significant. [[
** "Martha My Dear" is a Shout Out to Paul McCartney's dog.
** "The eagle picks my eye/The worm he licks my bone/Feel so suicidal/Just like [[Bob Dylan|Dylan's]] [[wikipedia:Ballad of a Thin Man|Mr. Jones]]"
* [[Siamese Twin Songs]]: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help From My Friends".
** "Polythene Pam" and "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" were recorded together as a single performance. You can hear John Lennon saying "Oh look out!" right before the change.
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: Literally ''every last original song'' on their first ''five'' albums counts. Not that there weren't plenty later on; "Paperback Writer" was the result of Paul's aunt telling him to ''please'' find a new subject.
** Paul McCartney composed the trope namer, "Silly Love Songs", during his career with [[Wings (
* [[Single-Stanza Song]]: "Wild Honey Pie" and "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" off of [[
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: At the beginning of their career they were far down the idealistic side, and if "Here Comes the Sun" is any indication, they missed it at the end. The rest of their career is [[Your Mileage May Vary|open to interpretation on this point.]] But then that shouldn't be surprising.
* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: George felt that Ringo's second song, "Octopus' Garden", was this. He described it as accidentally deep and spiritual.
* [[Something Blues]]: "Yer Blues".
* [[Song of Song Titles]]: "Glass Onion" on [[
* [[Song Style Shift]]: Several abrupt ones in Paul's "You Never Give Me Your Money" and John's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun".
* [[The Southpaw]]: Paul's left-handedness allowed the Beatles to perform a little bit of stagecraft in which Paul would face John, or George, and sing into the same mike with their guitars pointing the same way.
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** In his defence, it was a popular convention at the time for pop musicians to come up with a catchy stage-name rather than use their own.
** The rest of the Beatles toyed around with stage names during their early years, with John Lennon briefly going by the name "Long John". Paul McCartney was a particular fan of this, adopting the alias "Paul Ramone" during the group's time in Hamburg.
* [[Step Up to
* [[Stop and Go]]: "I'm only sleeping...[Pause]...keeping an eye on the world going by my window..."
* [[Studio Chatter]]: Quite a bit, mostly from John, on ''Let It Be''. More on [[
** While never legitimately released, there's a widely-bootlegged (and [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|absolutely hilarious]]) 20-minute outtake from a session for the ''Rubber Soul'' track "Think For Yourself". You can hear it (in two parts) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4q48Foltjs here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibSx5miTkY here].
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The intentionally awkward guitar solo in "All You Need Is Love".
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* [[Surreal Music Video]]: "Strawberry Fields Forever".
* [[Take That]]: George Harrison's "Only a Northern Song" is a swipe at Lennon and McCartney's publishing company, Northern Songs Ltd. Harrison wrote it to express his dissatisfaction over being screwed over on royalties from his own compositions. (The following year George would found his own publishing company, Harrisongs Ltd.)
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** George certainly loved this trope, as his opening song on ''Revolver'', "Taxman", is a giant take that against Harold Wilson's supertax.
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*** Actually, John wrote the part with Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. George went to John for help on "Taxman" durind a period of time when Paul had a grudge against George for a publicly unknown reason.
* [[Textless Album Cover]]: ''Abbey Road''
* [[This Is a Song]]: "Only a Northern Song"
* [[This Loser Is You]]: "Nowhere Man"
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* [[Three Chords and
** Some of their later work -- on [[
** They would actually learn from word of mouth who knew this chord, or who knew that chord, and would drive around in their van to wherever they needed to get to, drive back home and then they'd know how to play chord x.
** The "Get Back" project was an effort to, uh, get back to this. It met with mixed success due to the dissension in the band.
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** The [[Paul Is Dead]] theories, all based on supposedly hidden messages on the Beatles album covers and song lyrics.
** The 1970s saw a lot of urban legends concerning the possible (secret) reunion of the band. The most famous example was the initially anonymous Canadian progressive rock band [[Klaatu]], whose vaguely "Beatlesque" sound fueled speculation that they were a front for a reunited Fab Four.
* [[Uncommon Time]]: The bridge of "Here Comes The Sun" rotates between 11/8, 4/4, and 7/8, and "Good Morning Good Morning" has completely screwed up verses. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" (from ''[[
* [[Unplugged Version]]: [[George Harrison]] recorded a well-known acoustic version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." It finally got released on ''The Beatles Anthology''.
* [[Vocal Tag Team]]
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: After their introduction to drugs, a lot of songs, most notably "I Am The Walrus".
* [[World of Chaos]]: Some of their songs, including "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "I Am the Walrus", "Glass Onion", and the ''[[
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: "Hello Goodbye" and the single version of "Get Back".
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