Golden Memories-Fab Four W/O Sep 19 '05    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Music The Dirtchamber Sessions, Vol. 1 by The Prodigy From $11 Jersey Boys [Original Broadway Cast Recording] by Original Broadway Cast From $8 The Bottom Line My highlights from the Fab Four Songbook This is my contribution to Epinions member Alexdg1's Fab Four W/O, tribute to The Beatles. The objective is to select your top twenty favorite Beatles song. I grew up listening to The Beatles, but never really fully appreciated their music until years later, when as an adult, I began to realize how drastically this first major supergroup changed the face of rock & roll music, and how many of today's top artists and bands have been influenced by the innovative, groundbreaking, musical styles, of their collective creative genius. These are but a few, among many, Beatles songs that I find particularly memorable: And I Love Her One of the early Beatles hits, featuring a simple understated lyric, a tapping drum beat, and a lyrical Spanish Guitar bridge. Don't Let Me Down One of the group's most underrated songs, great keyboard driven melody and John Lennon vocal Eleanor Rigby This song is the first rock & roll song I remember hearing with a chamber ensemble, that perfectly complements a spare lyric about isolation and alienation Fool On The Hill From the Magical Mystery Tour album, this tune has become a pop standard, and has to be one of the most popular and widely recorded of all Beatles' songs Got To Get You Into My Life An ambitious horn section, gives this bold number a brash, vibrant, sound Hello, Goodbye Back end greetings are the only conventional aspect of this loosely structured number that includes some great horn tracks and reverb vocals If I Fell Another early acoustic Beatles' hit with a haunting melody and tight harmonies I Should Have Known Better Features John Lennon on vocal and harmonica in this rousing anthem of love and heartbreak Lady Madonna The Beatles singing ragtime? An innovative gem, and true masterwork of rhythm and meter Let It Be One of Mc Cartney's most spare and deeply moving compositions, a meaningful testament to deep, abiding, faith that has brought comfort to many during troubled times Long And Winding Road Another poignant pop ballad, perhaps a little heavy on the strings, but no still deeply affecting. The Bealtes' last #1 hit in America. Maxwell's Silver Hammer A masterpiece of black comedy, about a homicidal medical student, featuring George Harrison on Moog synthesizer and Ringo Starr on anvil Norwegian Wood Another brilliantly turned phrase, "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me?" opens this curious romantic ballad that combines a lilting acoustic melody with the Indian influence of the Sitar. Nowhere Man This brilliantly, cryptic, yet caustic lyric, "He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans nobody," is the most outstanding feature of this melodic acoustic ballad Penny Lane A slightly more conventional, monster hit from the psychedelic tinged Magical Mystery Tour album. Please Please Me Another early Beatles blockbuster hit, featuring slick vocal harmonies and acoustic guitar rhythm P.S. I Love You Lennon and Mc Cartney's passionate duet marks this as one of the group's best early romantic ballads Something Along with Here Comes The Sun, George Harrison's most accomplished and well crafted contribution the The Beatles' songbook We've Got To Hide Our Love Away One of the Beatles' most memorable plaintive romantic ballads Yesterday Paul Mc Cartney's gift for mellow, acoustic, romantic ballads is evident in this enduring and oft recorded classic Amazingly, The Beatles assembled one of the most memorable bodies of work in rock & roll history during their brief decade-long writing and recording collaboration. Arrangements from the brilliant Songbook of Lennon & Mc Cartney continue to be just as popular now, 35 years after they recorded their last song together. All of the Fab Four, except Ringo Starr, went on to have successful solo careers. However, they are best known for their collaborative efforts as members of arguably the greatest rock & roll band of the 20th century.

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