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The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away

22/7/15 – Peter And Gordon – Nobody I Know – 1964 / Petula Clark – Partir Il Nous Faut – 1965 / Peter And Gordon – I Don’t Want To See You Again – 1964 / The Chris Barber Band – Catcall – 1969 / Jotte Herre – Penina – 1967 / Carlos Mendes – Penina – 1969 / Ringo Starr – I’m The Greatest – 1973 / John Lennon – I’m The Greatest – 1973? / Paul McCartney Interview – Rollins College – 2014

As we come to the end of this thread, if you wish to hear most of  these songs in a collection there is an album – The Songs That Lennon and McCartney Gave Away. It was released in 1971 as a compilation excluding Penina by Jotte Herre and adding I Am The Greatest by Ringo on the reissue […]

The Beatles - 1967

7/9/14 – Penny Lane/ Strawberry Fields – 1967

Recorded around the same time as Sgt. Pepper’s but not included on the album, this double A-side is arguably one of the greatest singles ever made. But somehow the groundbreaking Psychedelic Strawberry Fields and the perfect musical and lyrical Pop that was Penny Lane missed out on the No.1 spot in the UK due to […]