The Best Beatles Ballads

It’s hard to imagine where we’d be without the Beatles. When the Fab Four took the Ed Sullivan stage in February of 1964, everything changed. The boys in the band record plenty of rock and psychedelic songs, but it’s the ballads that made them universally famous. Here’s our short list of Best Beatles Ballads..

“Yesterday” was a song that became the most played song in music history, played on all radio stations worldwide and covered over 300 times.

“Let It Be” was rumored to be a song that came to Paul while in a dream, and was not about drugs or the Biblical Mother Mary, although most people believe it’s about one or the other. The late Billy Preston appears on the track.

“Do You Want to Know a Secret?” was inspired by a Disney song called “I’m Wishing”, in an animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 movie, which John’s mother often sang to him growing up.

“The Long and Winding Road” was the last single released by the Fab Four as they broke up soon after words. Paul was very unhappy with the way producer Phil Spector arraigned the song, a fact mentioned in later interviews that the unwelcome studio interference as yet another reason he was leaving the group.