Who wrote which beatles songs

The quote, from a Playboy magazine interview, is one of many nuggets culled from William J. Lennon wrote 61 songs credited to ''Lennon-McCartney'' entirely by himself, and McCartney composed 43 on his own.

All told, Lennon had a hand in composing George Harrison was a distant third, with Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. The pair's approach uses several different representations of a particular song to help to identify its author.

These include the chords used, the melodic notes sung by the lead singer, the frequency of chord transitions, the frequency of consecutive melodic note pairs and four-note "contours". A contour is a four-note sequence that is a series of "ups", "downs" or "stays the same" - if a contour was made up of four notes of increasing pitch it would be "up, up, up".

These features can serve as a musical signature and allow them to determine who might have written which song. This is particularly useful for Lennon and McCartney, who are renowned for their individual styles. Some of the songs were even recorded as solo projects.

That underscores both the irony of self-titling this project and the issues still to come for a splintering group. The soundtrack to an animated film of the same name included some previously issued songs including Starr's title track , some songs that had earlier been left on the cutting-room floor including Harrison's "Only a Northern Song," a Sgt.

Pepper -era reject and one killer rock song "Hey Bulldog" that somehow found Lennon and McCartney collaborating again like the days of yore. Glad they did. Lennon came in with two great ideas "Come Together" and "I Want You" , then acquiesced to McCartney's soaring Side Two medley concept by handing over some witty unfinished snippets. Harrison's striking pair of contributions, however, make it clear that the center can't hold much longer. Really, it's a miracle that these wildly creative voices had been contained in one unit for this long.

A by-then rare Lennon-McCartney co-write on "I've Got a Feeling" was really just a combining of two other stray ideas. Otherwise, Lennon's late-period recession continued: "Across the Universe" had been bouncing around for a couple of years at this point. McCartney wrote the album's two big hits, while Harrison's "I Me Mine" provided a glimpse into his Phil Spector -produced early-solo sound.

This is where Lennon runs his score back up. He was the principal songwriter on the Beatles' stand-alone singles, whereas the bulk of McCartney's credits are in a collaborative role. Lennon also began the demo that sparked the band's reunion in his absence for "Free as a Bird. Back then, they'd gathered to finish recording Harrison's "I Me Mine" — and Lennon wasn't there that day either.

Home News. Songs not released on LP. I Want to Hold Your Hand, The Ballad of John and Yoko, One song recorded by The Beatles isn't in this list. It was sung by Lennon and is included in the total satistics above. Yellow Submarine is only counted once, even if it appears on two albums.

Free as a Bird from and Real Love from are both Lennon compositions. They are not included in the statistics. The order of the songs in the list is the same as they were recorded in.