@summerwind A pretty song, well written.

@OldBrit I liked Jeff Healey's rendition the best.

@Sidewinder his is good. Peter Frampton did a super rendition too.

@OldBrit proves how great the song is, so many great versions

@WelshLovely My choice would be The Long and Winding Road

@WelshLovely Nice. Short 'n' sweet.

@MissingLink One of my favorites too!

@ElwoodBlues Just listened to it, all this beatle talk has got me listening to them today

@MissingLink Respectable and the sign of a great song if it moves you so profoundly.

@ServantOfTheGoddess Yeah, like it.

@Starcrossed Nice. it's great how music can achieve that, along with fragrances, which can transport me back to a life event with swift precision.

@SW-User Yeah, Epstein certainly did a sterling job with 'em! I was just checking out the flair of some of those transitional chords, by lending the melody an accompaniment not unbefitting of a seasoned songwriter. The songwriting experience they attained in Hamburg belied their tender age, aside from honing their stagecraft. They put the bloody work in for sure!

@stratosranger Interesting. I think at this point, he sounds quite philosophical about the whole thing and has no reason to embellish his part in the sorry mess. he seemed quite honest about Yoko and respectful of her and John's relationship but it is obviously far from what he felt at the time. for who split the Beatles, he's probably right. When Howard stern was expressing his liking for Paul's song and how it was a jab at John, all I could think of was How D'ya Sleep At Night (ya c***)!

@Orpheus Stern is a kiss ass. His show used to be funny a thousand years ago. He is still a decent interviewer, but he will express any emotive that aligns with whoever he is interviewing to get a better interview out of them. And then later on he will trash them. This is the same Howard Stern who years ago mocked McCartney’s wife Linda for her horrible live singing and received a cease and desist order from playing it on the air from McCartney’s attorneys. But the day she died? He played it again. So yeah he’s just two faced and cares about nothing but himself.

@stratosranger What a dog! How does HE sleep at night? i do recall the Linda McCartney backing vox though. Most unfortunate...not the sort of thing you'd want solo'd and dumped into the public domain...If it was today, Christ it'd be everywhere in 5 mins with little or no recourse to claw it back.

@hippyjoe1955 What are your favorite bands?

@stratosranger tbh I really don't have a favorite band or even favorite musician. I can enjoy almost any music if done to my taste. That said I am a bit of a rebel and don't go for the big name bands

@hippyjoe1955 Very good

@SW-User Quality.

@DearAmbellina2113 All great choices. I've just remembered that 'Something' is pretty high on my list and suspect after seeing your list that to have one favourite is an injustice. Maybe an albums worth of faves?!

@ClydeKoolray Both quality songs

@SW-User Yeah, great song. Incredible piano too.

@BackyardShaman Yeah, i agree on the era but keep getting reminded that the majority of their earlier stuff was exemplary too, the experience they amassed while young really enabled them to shine so brightly and write prolifically, songs of a virtually peerless quality in such a limited time frame.
I've got a feeling is raw and it rocks. Good choice. It also reminds me of what a natural solid yet musically fluid McCartney can be...all while singing. No mean feat!

@Orpheus on that particular track Paul’s influence from Otis Redding is very apparent.

@helsbels the beatles were an excellent band,my mum met them in the 60 in pereon

@helsbels Nice. I've forgotten so many, that when replies crop up, I end up thinking God yeah! That's another great one, as I just thought with Michelle...I also spotted Eleanor Rigby and Dear Prudence while I was trawling you tube and thought the same.

@Musicman Yeah! I'd forgotten that one! Excellent song! Nice.

@chinga Yup. Good choice.

@Entwistle Nice. Yeah McCartney really pulls some clever melodic bass riffs out of the bag at times AND sings through some of 'em

@Orpheus I'm not entirely sure I understand the question.

@BarbossasHusband Sure. I mean is there a band or artist you would consider as having produced most, or if not, some of your favourite songs?

@Orpheus Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, Great Big Sea, Stan Rogers, Flogging Molly, Alice Cooper, Queen

Elvis being no1

@bijouxbroussard Yeah, it seems most girls at the time chose either John or Paul as their heartthrob. This is a pretty song and the arrangement of the harmonies truly belies their age They were very deserving of their elevated status even this early in their career.

@Penny oh, why is just because i like best them i guess lol

@Penny Cheers Penny! Thanks for the extra effort, the Why was very important! 😀 Both great tracks! Hey! I just thought...No one liked Yesterday...or Eleanor Rigby (except me... I like Eleanor Rigby!

@Orpheus oh . those are two of my favorites too :)

@Orpheus Hitting the 1/4" tape warmed up the sound a bit. People do that--bounce a Pro Tools recording onto tape, and it usually makes a big difference.

@uncalled4 Yeah, I've considered it myself in the past and to me, aside from the warmth, it does seem to make a difference to the overall cohesion of the sound. At the time I was considering it, I ran it past a few studio forum peeps and the general consensus from anyone who'd worked with tape on a daily basis and now used Pro Tools (or equivalent) was...'Are you mad?!! There's the price of tape, a reliable machine without extreme head wear there's the relap, the setting up, the parts failure and difficulty in replacement and the service costs. 'Get yourself a Universal Audio plugin which sounds as near as dammit to the real thing and save yourself the grief and the cash.' I took this as gospel and although I haven't purchased the UA plugins yet, I've heard good things. Pity, I do like tape though...it brings back fond memories but nostalgia is no sound reason for excessive outlay and potential grief.

@Orpheus The plugins get very close, but not quite. What happens, in my experience, is that little bit of tape compression can really make a mix "hang together" better. Tracking and overdubbing on tape would be insane. Bouncing to tape is not. Oh, and then we played it back into Pro Tools--this way, we didn't limit our mastering studio options.

@BlueGreenGrey Totally agree! The reverse tape stuff is just so...blatantly outrageous too! Good call with the mono version also. I think the mono tracks sound better remaining in mono, as originally intended. Each time the stereo stuff is remixed, the recordings seem to degrade in punch as a trade off for increased bandwidth and somehow don't feel quite right to me.

@uncalled4 Yup, this and Hey Jude are both truly excellent songs. The just don't seem to have been able to avoid knocking out nothing less than world class songs at a breakneck pace! i like this stripped back version too. The quality of the songwriting holds up just as well in isolation.

@Lilnonames Still a great song.