Songs covered by Lost Dogs on an album or in concert include Bob Dylan's " Lord, Protect My Child ," Leonard Cohen's " If It Be Your Will ," The Beatles ' " I'm A Loser ," " The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be Late )", and Stephen Foster's " Hard Times, Come Again No More.

" In 2010, Rolling Stone placed it at number three on the 100 Greatest Beatles Songs.

In 2004 and later in 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song at # 8 on " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ," making it the highest ranked Beatles song on the list.

Also in 2010, Rolling Stone ranked the song at # 7 on The Beatles ' 100 Greatest Songs.

* April 24 – The Beatles make a $ 5. 1 million counter offer to the Northern Songs stockholders in an attempt to keep Associated TV from controlling the band's music.

* May 6 – In London, representatives of Warner Brothers-Seven Arts discuss the purchase of fifteen percent of The Beatles ' Northern Songs.

* February 22 – The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company.

The individual Beatles sometimes recorded basic performances at home of their new compositions, either for copyright purposes ( to be sent to Dick James Music publishing affiliate Northern Songs ), to later play for the other Beatles, or to give to other artists who would be recording the songs.

This company was eventually split away from the parent company and went through numerous different owners as well as buying into other established music publishers including Northern Songs, which was The Beatles publishing company.

Wells made friends with all four Beatles and later released a tribute album, Love Songs to the Beatles, in mid-decade.

Dick James ( 12 December 1920 – 1 February 1986 ), born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick in the East End of London, was a music publisher and the founder of the DJM record label and recording studios, as well as ( with Brian Epstein ) The Beatles ' publisher Northern Songs.

The pair subsequently established Northern Songs Ltd., with Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney, to publish Lennon and McCartney's original songs.

( Fellow Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr were also signed to Northern Songs as songwriters, but did not renew their contracts in 1968 ).

What initially began as an amicable working relationship between the Beatles and James disintegrated by the late 1960s: the Beatles considered that James had betrayed and taken advantage of them when he sold Northern Songs in 1969 without offering the band an opportunity to buy control of the publishing company.

James profited handsomely from the sale of Northern Songs, but the Beatles never again had the rights to their own songs.

In 2010, Rolling Stone placed the song at number two on the 100 Greatest Beatles Songs after " A Day in the Life ".

# REDIRECT Love Songs ( The Beatles album )

Rolling Stone compared André 3000's vocals to those of " an indie-rock Little Richard " and the backing arrangement to The Beatles ' 1969 album Abbey Road, later including the song in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

* Songs the Beatles Didn't Do compiled by Joseph Brennan ; includes Lennon – McCartney songs and others

* Love Songs ( The Beatles album )

* 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

The Beatles ' " For No One " ( 1966 ) features Paul McCartney playing the clavichord.

The Beatles introduced audiences to many of the major elements of the psychedelic sound during this period, with guitar feedback in " I Feel Fine " ( 1964 ), " Norwegian Wood " from their 1965 Rubber Soul album using a sitar, and the employment of reversed audio tapes on their 1966 B-side " Rain ".

Harrison used this guitar on the song " If I Needed Someone " and during The Beatles ' 1966 tours.

George Harrison experimented with slide guitar during the latter half of The Beatles ' career, first using the technique on an early outtake recording of " Strawberry Fields Forever " in 1966.

Similarly, although The Beatles ' productions were credited to George Martin throughout their recording career, many sources now attest that Lennon and McCartney in particular had an increasing influence on the production process as the group's career progressed, and especially after the band retired from touring in 1966.

One memorable aspect of the show was the regular closing number, where Johnny Young would croon a ballad version of The Beatles ' song " All My Loving " ( with which Young had had an Australian hit in 1966 ), accompanied by the entire cast, in an almost lullaby style, individually wishing all of the cast good night.

# A Collection of Beatles Oldies ( 1966 )

In 1966 The Beatles, regarded as one of the most popular and influential rock bands of their era, ran into trouble with many of their American fans when John Lennon jokingly offered his opinion that Christianity was dying and that the Beatles were " more popular than Jesus now ".

By the time The Beatles stopped touring in late 1966, their promotional films, like their recordings, had become highly sophisticated.

In May 1966 they filmed two sets of colour promotional clips for their current single " Rain "/" Paperback Writer " all directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who went on to direct The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus and The Beatles final film Let It Be.

Country influences can be heard on rock records through the 1960s, including tracks on the Beatles for Sale album ( 1964 ) ( including " I'll Cry Instead ", " Baby's in Black " and " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party "), on the Rolling Stones " High and Dry " ( 1966 ), as well as Buffalo Springfield's " Go and Say Goodbye " ( 1966 ) and " Kind Woman " ( 1968 ).

Relocated from central London in 1966, the studios played host to many of rock and pop's greatest stars down the decades, from The Beatles, who recorded the original tracks of " All You Need Is Love " in Barnes, to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Nilsson, The Verve, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, Coldplay, Madonna and Björk.

The Beatles performed at the stadium during their final North American Tour on August 21, 1966.

This was his first performance at the stadium since The Beatles ' final tour in 1966.

In addition, an unused shot from the Please Please Me photo session featuring the boys in short hair and cleancut attire, was used for the cover of the Beatles ' first double-disc greatest-hits compilation entitled 1962 – 1966 ( aka " The Red Album ").

Boston's Remains, though only able to make it onto Billboard's Bubbling Under charts, had enough of a following and reputation to open for the Beatles during their 1966 U. S. tour.

By early 1966 he had become the band's spokesman, interviewed separately from the band for the BBC television series A Whole Scene Going admitting that the band used drugs and that he considered The Beatles ' backing tracks " flippin ' lousy ".

Examples include The Beatles ' The Beatles ' Hits EP from 1963, and The Troggs ' Troggs Tops EP from 1966, both of which collected previously released tracks.

It's McCartney's first public concert since The Beatles ' 1966 US tour.

All You Need is Cash, a 1978 American-British mockumentary film written and directed by Eric Idle, featured the satirical history of the The Beatles | Beatles parody " The Rutles ".

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Sherman's later albums grew more pointedly satirical and less light-hearted, skewering protesting students (" The Rebel "), consumer debt (" A Waste of Money ", based on " A Taste of Honey "), and the generation gap (" Crazy Downtown " and " Pop Hates the Beatles ").

Wings are sometimes the subject of satirical reference ; the more pop-friendly style of the band has attracted tongue-in-cheek comparisons with the Beatles.