The Beatles doubtlessly had a lot of contribution to the global music. They might have stepped down the scene but their songs are still singing by others. Here are the Beatles songs from 12 legendary singers…
The Supremes – I Want to Hold Your Hand
I Want to Hold Your Hand was written by John Lennon – Paul McCartney duo just in 1 hour and this song took the Beatles to number 1 in the American list for the first time.
Arctic Monkeys – All My Loving
Jane Asher was doing an interview with Paul McCartney for a magazine but that interview turned into a relationship that lasted for years. That relationship evoked some sentences in McCartney’s mind and turned into a poem and then to All My Loving.
Ella Fitzgerald – Can’t Buy Me Love
Can’t Buy Me Love is also written by Paul McCartney. Also, it is one of the most covered the Beatles legends. We heard this song in “Yes Man” movie from Jim Carry and Zoey Deschanel. Fitzgerald has a unique cover.
Billy Joel – A Hard Day’s Night
“A Hard Day’s Night” is a phrase said by Ringo after a tiring day. The crew worked hard for the entire day and as Ringo was about to say, “this was a hard day”, he realized that the night was already there and said, “this was a hard day’s night”. His regular phrases laid the foundations of a memorable song.
Ray Charles – Eleanor Rigby
This song is about two old and lonely people called Eleanor Rigby and Father Mackenzie. Interestingly, there are two tombstones in St. Peter church cemetery in England with these names. But Paul McCartney says that the names into song didn’t come from these people.
Bee Gees – A Day in The Life
Sometimes inspiration can find you on newspaper or news. This is what happened to John Lennon. When he was reading the newspaper, Lennon was influenced from a few news and A Day in The Life came out.
Elvis Presley – Hey Jude
What we know as “Hey Jude” for years is actually “Hey Jules”. Paul McCartney wrote the song for John Lennon’s son Julian. Although the name was changed with a cartoon character Jude, the song always remained Julian’s.
Sarah McLachlan – Blackbird
John Lennon was not the only one who got influenced from the newspaper and what is going around the world. Paul McCartney wrote Blackbird after being influenced from a discrimination against black people due to an event in the US.
Nina Simone – Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun was written on a sunny April morning which is not common in the UK. George Harrison first took a walk with Eric Clapton in Clapton’s Garden for a while and sat down and wrote this song with a sudden inspiration.
Joe Cocker – Something
George Harrison said he wrote this song to someone special in an interview. Pattie Boyd, his wife back then said the song was written to her and Harrison picked up his guitar one day and played the song only to her.
Michael Jackson – Come Together
Timothy Leary was a psychiatrist who experimented with LSD in that period and he was put into jail when LSD was banned. In those days, Leary asked a song from John Lennon to start a campaign for him. Come Together was written for this request. But this masterpiece by Lennon was far away from just being a campaign song.
Joan Baez – Let It Be
Actually, The Beatles thought about a song “to get back and leave the problems behind”. But the conflicts grew even harder in these efforts. What is more George Harrison leaving the studio and the song turned into “Let It Be”.
