SHE LOVES YOU (1963) ALL MY LOVING (1963) YESTERDAY (1965)

This was written by Lennon and McCartney at the Turk’s Head Hotel in Newcastle, where they were staying while on tour.

As they practised the falsetto “ooohs” on the tour bus, they were warned it sounded too feminine but stuck with it.

Also distinctive were the “yeah yeah yeahs,” which Lennon later said were originally just fillers.

Macca’s dad told him to change the lyrics to “yes yes yes” so it would be proper

English but the band stuck to their guns – and the tabloids christened them the Yeah Yeah

Yeah band. She Loves

You was the Beatles’ second No1 and sold

1.3 million copies in the UK.

Here, Macca sings to an absent lover, promising to be true. He has previously said it was the first song he ever wrote where he thought of the words before the tune. They came to him while he was shaving.

The girl he was missing at the time was actress Jane Asher. The pair would later announce their engagement on Christmas Day in 1967.

The Beatles’ later hit, We Can Work It Out, was also inspired by Asher, who had left to do an acting tour in Bristol while Macca stayed in London. The couple split in 1968.

FRESH-FACED George, Paul, Ringo & John in 1963

Macca woke up one morning with a melody in his head, went to his bedside piano and played it.

Worried it was someone else’s tune which had seeped into his subconscious, he played it to friends for weeks with the comedy lyrics, “Scrambled eggs, oh baby how I love your legs”.

Macca wrote the now-known words while on holiday in Portugal.

He has previously hinted the song was about losing his mum at a young age.

The rest of the band regarded the song as near-perfect and it needed little intervention. But

Lennon always felt the lyrics were lacking and left so much unexplained.

FLOWER POWER Beatles in 1967