Seven years, two hundred songs, and the blueprint for everything after. The Lennon-McCartney-Harrison catalog, ranked across Rolling Stone, Paste, and Uproxx.
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Seven years, two hundred songs, and the blueprint for everything after. The Lennon-McCartney-Harrison catalog, ranked across Rolling Stone, Paste, and Uproxx.
A Day in the Life
Sgt. Pepper's monumental closer, a Lennon-McCartney collage joined by two orchestral crescendos and the most famous final chord in pop. Topped both Rolling Stone and Uproxx as the band's greatest.
Strawberry Fields Forever
Lennon's dreamlike trip through a Liverpool childhood, spliced from two takes in different keys and tempos. A landmark of studio experimentation that still sounds like nothing else.
Something
George Harrison's first A-side, a love song to Pattie Boyd that Frank Sinatra called the greatest love song of the past fifty years. The standout ballad of Abbey Road.
Abbey Road Medley
The suite that closes Abbey Road, eight song fragments stitched into one cathartic farewell from 'You Never Give Me Your Money' to 'The End.' The Beatles' grandest studio statement.
In My Life
Lennon's nostalgic Rubber Soul reflection on the people and places of his youth, lifted by George Martin's sped-up baroque piano solo. He called it his first real piece of work.
She's Leaving Home
Sgt. Pepper's aching string-quartet vignette about a runaway daughter, McCartney's most novelistic lyric. Paste ranked it the band's single greatest song.
I Want to Hold Your Hand
The single that broke the Beatles in America in 1964 and set off Beatlemania. Pure adrenaline pop that Rolling Stone placed second among everything they recorded.
Hey Jude
McCartney's seven-minute anthem of comfort, written for John Lennon's young son, building to one of music's great singalong codas. A worldwide number one and the first release on Apple.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Revolver's mind-bending closer, the first song cut for the album, built on tape loops and Lennon's wish to sound like a thousand chanting monks. Their most radical studio leap.
Yesterday
McCartney's melancholy string-quartet ballad, dreamed up melody-first before the words arrived. One of the most covered songs in history, and never even a single in the band's lifetime.
Ranked across 3 sources: Rolling Stone · 100 Greatest Beatles Songs; Paste · 50 Greatest Beatles Songs (2025); Uproxx · The Best Beatles Songs, Ranked. Full scoring is on the Methodology tab above.
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