NEW YORK .- The Rolling Stone magazine first produced a list of 100 greatest songs of The Beatles and the 1967 theme "A Day in the Life ", written by John Lennon, topped the list released Wednesday.
In second place was the 1963 hit single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" followed by "Strawberry Fields Forever", he remembered Lennon's nostalgia for his childhood in the British port of Liverpool.
The list was published as part of a special collector's edition entitled "The Beatles: 100 Greatest Songs" to coincide with the anniversary of 40 years out of the twelfth and final studio album from the "Fab Four", " Let It Be. "
"Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had incredibly high standards as songwriters," said the musician Elvis Costello in the introduction to the list of Rolling Stone.
"Then they began to really grow: simple melodies of love adult stories and ideas (...) larger than one would expect to find in verses catchy pop music, "he added.
" Yesterday ", the theme McCartney performed in 1965 and that during its composition was the title of "Scrambled Eggs", was fourth, while "In My Life", which is included on the album "Rubber Soul", was fifth.
"A Day in the Life "stories in the newspaper
Close extraordinary drive serial Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where Lennon starts her story from the fatal accident suffered by the young aristocrat and wild character of Swingin 'London Tara Browne: "I read the news today (...) It blew his mind out in a car / did not realize that the lights had changed." The song builds on this and other articles and combine like never before, the British rock band and orchestral crescendos and the voices of Lennon and McCartney alternating vocal sections.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand": teenage love
was the fourth single in the early days of Beatlemania and with it the group had similar success in England and the United States in 1963. It's a powerful song in terms of rhythm and harmony vocals, played in unison by Lennon and McCartney. Commonly used to differentiate between a correct position Beatles, who sang "I want to hold your hand" and a challenging Rolling Stones, the same year said "I want to make love."
"Strawberry Fields Forever": nothing is real
again the hand of John Lennon is imposed for cryptic poetry and return to the roots of Liverpool, like all the same album Sargeant Pepper ... 1967. It was a pre-album single, but set the direction of the new psychedelic music of the Beatles that year, which also included provincial imagery in northern England. Inspired by the Salvation Army home Beaconsfield Road, Woolton, Liverpool, near where Lennon lived as a child. Beatle musically sums up the spirit with rock band, orchestra, music from India and sonic experimentation in the studio.
"Yesterday": scrambled eggs
The melancholy ballad of 1965 has two outstanding features. One is the world record for different versions that were published (the figure speaks more than two thousand) and the other is the title which was originally to have this piece: "Scrambled Eggs." Thankfully, Paul McCartney, the author and who had written in the house of his girlfriend, actress Jane Asher, altered the title to "Yesterday." Paul is against the acoustic guitar accompanied only by a chamber string ensemble arrangements with producer George Martin.
"In My Life": friends and lovers
1965 and also written by John Lennon for the album Rubber Soul, is considered the first hymn of the Beatles, for his emotionally charged, existentialist and autobiographical at a time. Have a dedicated line to his friend, the art student in Liverpool and the Beatles' first bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe, who died in Hamburg in 1962: "Some friends have died and some are living / In my life I've loved them all" .
"Something" the blonde weakness
Frank Sinatra, authority Romantic music for fifty years, chose as the greatest love song of all time. Of course, the repository of this piece of George Harrison, published in 1969 in Abbey Road album was the model Patti Boyd, girlfriend and later wife of Beatle since 1964, but left him to flee with Eric Clapton: "Something in the way moving / I'm drawn like no other lover (...) Somewhere in her smile she knows / I do not need another lover. "
"Hey Jude": Take a sad song and make it better
Run 1968 and Paul McCartney has taken over and the musical direction of the Beatles, as Lennon and is more interested in his life with Yoko Ono and feels increasingly isolated from the figure of "pop star" which he held since 1962. McCartney wrote these lines inspired by John's son, Julian Lennon. In fact its title has evolved from "Hey Jules" to "Hey Jude" and was written to comfort the child after separation from his father and his mother Cynthia Powell. It is one of the largest and melodic and great four-minute coda sung in chorus always foolproof.
"Let It Be": the mother is always wise
Another Paul. If "In My Life" by John Lennon, was the first Beatles song, then "Let it Be" opens in 1970, trilogy after "All you need is love" (1967). Simply, "Let it be." Le given the title of the latest album released by the group, Let it Be, thus connecting the solo careers of Lennon, Harrison and McCartney himself. As has Paul, wrote the song after a dream in which appeared his mother, Mary, died when he was only fourteen years: "When I am in trouble / Mother Mary comes to me / Speaking wisely," let it be. "
"Come Together": now, now
The inaugural issue of the extraordinary 1969 album Abbey Road, has one of the hippest songs of the Beatles, with its author, John Lennon, turned into a hairy, bearded musician poet, lover Yoko Ono wildly and always willing to try new substances. "Come together" was originally commissioned for the campaign of outrageous government university professor Timothy Leary in California against Ronald Reagan, but could not be used as the candidate ended up in prison for possession of marijuana.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Clapton is god Eric Clapton
When running alone, one can see how is the cry of a guitar. The musician, then best friend George Harrison, was invited to the studio to work in this dramatic piece belonging to the lead guitarist of the Beatles. The literal translation is: "While my guitar weeps gently. "appeared on the single disc double extension of the Beatles, titled The Beatles (1968), but known as The White Album, for his perfect white cover. Like the song.
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