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Last released studio album, Let It Be - a very different direction for them full of fights, however every song I really loved as I do with most of their later stuff. The rooftop concert is forever iconic and always fun to watch. I still need to watch the Get Back sessions. Also - let’s start blaming Phil Spector for driving off Paul and not Yoko, yeah??

Singles Don’t Let Me Down / You Know My Name - I love the first song and always think of the rooftop concert and them laughing with John’s mess up, the second had such a great story from Paul about his friendship with John

The Ballad of John and Yoko / Old Brown Shoe - the first is one of my fave Beatles songs of all time and I loved reading about John and Paul’s collab on it. The second is a head bopper for sure

Yellow Submarine - I felt bad about forgetting this album until I read that they also forgot about it and treated it as their leftovers lol. My fave is surprisingly a George song, Only a Northern Song. The background was interesting and it was soothing

Singles Hello, Goodbye/Lady Madonna/Inner Light - the first two are really fun ones I have good memories from my childhood, and I even finally liked one of George’s Indian inspired pieces with Inner Light. I can’t believe I have one more album left in this book (seeing as I already read the White album and Abbey Road)

Magical Mystery Tour - such a short album but I love hearing the beginning of a huge cohesive feel that makes their albums after this one so great. The Fool on the Hill and I Am the Walrus are of course some of the best Beatles songs but I like the slower ones such as Flying

Singles All You Need is Love/Baby You’re a Rich Man - the first’s history as a song recorded for a live BBC international show (it’s first ever) was really fun and the second was insanely catchy

How completely iconic Sgt Pepper’s is!!! It’s so fascinating how many masterpiece songs here were created by looping or playing backwards and honestly just happy accidents. There’s not a single skip on this album (I don’t agree with this book’s opinion on Lovely Rita being weak as it always makes me dance).

Double A Side Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane - really no words could ever describe how I feel about SFF, my favorite Beatles song and all my childhood nostalgia and fantastical daydreaming it unlocked in me. Penny Lane being on A side with it makes so much sense since these are both foundational everlasting songs for the band.

Singles Paperback Writer/Rain - I have loved Paperback Writer for so many years and it was fun reading into the history. It was my first listen of Rain which I thought was really strong

Revolver - one of my least favorite Beatles albums, even with some gems like Here There Everywhere and Eleanor Rigby. I just feel like it&: not John’s strongest and really all of their style feels subdued. Luckily I know that the result of this album leads to my favorite eras of theirs

Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out - popularized the double A side all because they couldn’t stop arguing over which one shouldn’t be on the B side 💀(imo WCWITO is the more fun song)

“letting it go is what the whole game is” fantastic quote from Lennon about Nowhere Man and the new sound in Rubber Soul. This is such a solid album that has something for everyone