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McCartney's lyrics for "Hey Jude" were inspired by John and Cynthia Lennon's five-year-old son, Julian - but Lennon first thought McCartney was singing to him about his relationship with Yoko Ono.īefore it became the second-most-covered Beatles song behind "Yesterday," Lennon said this unexpected Harrison track was "the best track on " and McCartney called it "the best song written." A month after its 1970 release, McCartney announced the band had broken up. McCartney channeled Aretha Franklin's soul in "Let It Be," recorded during the peak of the Beatles' troubled times.

Originally intended by Lennon as a campaign song for LSD guru Timothy Leary's campaign for California's governor in 1970, this became the last song all four Beatles cut in the studio together. The lyrics for George Harrison's first truly great Beatles song began as a deliberate accident - and it wasn't until Harrison pulled Eric Clapton in to play guitar that the arrangement was finished. Check out the top 10 songs now, before the issue hits stands: ( Rolling Stone) - In Rolling Stone's new Special Collectors Edition issue, we count down the 100 greatest songs from the greatest band of all time: The Beatles.
