5 STORIES
1967 · 60S
LONDON, UK
The closing track of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is less a song than a controlled collision of two pop fragments, a forty-piece or…
1967 · 60S
A track that crystallized the psychedelic imagination of 1967 even as its authors insisted it was nothing of the sort. Born from a child's d…
1967 · 60S
LIVERPOOL, UK
A hallucinatory dispatch from John Lennon's Liverpool childhood, "Strawberry Fields Forever" turned a Salvation Army orphanage garden into a…
1968 · 60S
: Written by Paul McCartney as a private consolation for John Lennon's young son Julian during his parents' divorce, "Hey Jude" became the l…
1969 · 60S
A swampy, slurred incantation that opens the last album The Beatles ever recorded together, "Come Together" began life as a campaign jingle …