What's New

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.

We added the running time for the whole catalogue, so you can line the songs up by length any time at all on the song lengths chart. Each instrument also got its own tidy page, from the sitar to the Mellotron.

The pages for John, Paul, George and Ringo, plus every songwriter, album and year, now run on one song table you can filter by role (wrote, co-wrote, sang, played) and switch cover versions on or off, with charts that redraw as you go. We also added how long each song took to make, from a single day to multi-month, and opened up browsing by genre and influence.

Come together: all 217 songs, from "Love Me Do" to "Now and Then", are now researched and tagged across their music, words, rhyme and time signature, recording sessions and the people who made them.

We tagged the overall mood of every song, from positive to negative to a mix of both, so you can find songs by how they feel, from the bright "Good Day Sunshine" to the ache of "Yes It Is".

Three big arrivals. An interactive timeline of the Beatles' story from 1956 to 1970; the recording-session detail behind each song; and Insights, a whole set of data visualisations, including the Beatle DNA radar, a tag network, an influence tree, harmony evolution, key distribution and tempo fingerprints. The People section also gained an instrument browser.

We redesigned every song page around a Sgt. Pepper palette, with tag pills grouped by category, a sticky section menu, and a word cloud for each song. It reads better on a phone, too. See it on "A Day in the Life".

We started tagging the craft in the writing: the lyrical devices the Beatles leaned on, from internal rhyme and repetition to double meaning and a nice bit of nonsense. Goo goo g'joob. Now you can find every song built on a particular turn of phrase.

We dug into the words. Every song is now tagged for its recurring motifs, such as Animals, Weather or Loneliness, its narrative voice, its rhyme schemes, and how rich its vocabulary is, all explorable through word clouds by album, year or writer.

Good day sunshine: the doors opened. Search and filter the whole catalogue, browse by album, year or member, skim the glossary, and dig into each Beatle's own page. A few good places to start: Abbey Road, 1967, John Lennon, the sitar songs, or anything tagged Surrealism.