10 lagu terbaik THE BEATLES menurut majalah Rolling Stone

Semua orang pasti kenal The Beatles. Empat musisi asal Liverpool ini memang fenomenal dan semua orang tahu itu. Tapi kalau masalah lagu terbaik mereka, tiap orang pasti punya pilihan sendiri-sendiri. Menurut majalah Rolling Stone, lagu terbaik band berjuluk Fab Four ini adalah A Day In The Life yang jadi lagu pamungkas album SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.

Majalah Rolling Stone memang baru saja menyusun seratus tembang terbaik The Beatles dan melepasnya menjadi edisi khusus majalah musik terbitan negeri Paman Sam ini. Berikut adalah 10 lagu terbaik The Beatles versi Majalah Rolling Stone :

10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The lyrics for George Harrison's first truly great Beatles song began with him choosing the phrase "gently weeps" from a random book. It wasn't until Harrison pulled Eric Clapton in to play guitar that the arrangement was finished.

9. Come Together
Originally intended by Lennon as a campaign song for LSD guru Timothy Leary when he ran for California governor in 1970, this became the last song all four Beatles cut in the studio together.

8. Let It Be
McCartney channeled Aretha Franklin's soul in "Let It Be," recorded during the peak of the Beatles' troubled times. A month after its 1970 release, McCartney announced the band had broken up.

7. Hey Jude
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.

6. Something
Before it became the second-most-covered Beatles song behind "Yesterday," Lennon said this unexpected Harrison track was "the best track on [Abbey Road]" and McCartney called it "the best song [Harrison has] written."

5. In My Life
"In My Life," featuring Lennon's most personal lyrics up until that time, is one of only a handful of Lennon-McCartney songs where the two strongly disagreed over who wrote what.

4. Yesterday
The most covered song in history began as something called "Scrambled Eggs." It also began in a dream of Paul McCartney's.

3. Strawberry Fields Forever
Lennon once said growing up "was scary because there was nobody to relate to." Strawberry Field, a Liverpool youth's home near where Lennon grew up, represented those haunting childhood visions. With this song, Lennon conquered them forever.

2. I Want to Hold Your Hand
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the first exposure most American had to the songwriting magic of Lennon and McCartney. It set off Beatlemania, and represented what producer George Martin calls "the apex of Phase One of the Beatles' development."

1. A Day in The Life
The ultimate Lennon-McCartney collaboration, "A Day in the Life" wasn't recognized as the band's masterwork until the Eighties, after Lennon's death.
It pairs lyrics inspired by the newspapers and Lennon's own life with McCartney's idea to have classical musicians perform what producer George Martin called an "orchestral orgasm."

Daftar ini sengaja dibuat Rolling Stone bertepatan dengan peringatan 40 tahun album ke-12 sekaligus album terakhir The Beatles yang berjudul LET IT BE. "Lennon, McCartney, dan Harrison memang punya standar yang sangat tinggi sebagai seorang penulis. Setelah itu mereka mulai tumbuh: kisah cinta sederhana menjadi kisah yang dewasa, dan berlanjut sampai ide-ide yang lebih besar, bahkan lebih besar dari yang kita harapkan dari lirik lagu pop yang catchy," ujar Elvis Costello seperti dikutip dari Splash News.


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