Beatlesongs.wiki
Four lads, 217 songs, one extraordinary decade. Every Beatles track tagged, dissected, and mapped. Come together across music, lyrics, studio magic, and the people who made it all.
Every page now has something to read
Before you dive into the tags, every page now tells you what is interesting about its subject, in context: a song's words, its music, the studio, who played, what was going on around it. The albums, the years, the people and the tags got the same. It is how you find out 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is twinned with 'Eleanor Rigby', both death-themed, serious and experimental.
Who played what, and what they played it through
Every song now names the instruments in the room and the gear they went through: Paul's Hofner 500/1, Ringo's Ludwig Super Classic, the Epiphone Casino all over the later records. Behind them the desk and the tape, including the Studer J37 four-track that somehow had to hold Sgt. Pepper. The tricks are there too, like the Leslie speaker that Lennon's vocal went through on "Tomorrow Never Knows".
The people behind the records
George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Billy Preston and the rest of the studio crew now have proper credits and short bios, and every song page shows who produced and engineered it alongside who played what, right down to George Martin's piano on "In My Life". We also added a Surprise me button on the home page that drops you on a random song or tag.
All I've Got to Do
Lennon's conscious Smokey Robinson pastiche, opening With The Beatles' UK album side 1 track 2. Notable for McCartney's chord-playing bass - cited as one of the earliest examples in rock - and a verse that avoids the dominant chord until the bridge's final bar.
George Martin
Classically trained English producer, arranger, and head of EMI's Parlophone label, widely called the 'Fifth Beatle' for his central role in shaping the band's recordings.
Jazz cadence
ii → V → I - the most common jazz progression, building tension through the supertonic and dominant before resolving to the tonic (e.g. Dm7 → G7 → C).
Tempo Comparison
Average BPM by album, tempo categories, and songwriter fingerprints.
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Every tag, sized by frequency, colored by category.
Which tags cluster together across the catalogue.
Releases and tagging density across 1962-1970.
What keys the Beatles wrote in, and how it shifted.
Lennon vs McCartney vs Harrison, side by side.
Every surprising fact mined from the catalogue.
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Search, filter, and sort every Beatles song by any combination of tags, year, album, or member. The complete catalogue, at your fingertips.