Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the Mayfair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor ; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

After the death of Brian Epstein and the unpopular surreal television film, Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles returned to a more raw style with The Beatles ( 1968 ), Abbey Road ( 1969 ) and Let It Be ( 1970 ), before their eventual break up.

* " Lady Madonna ", a 1968 song by The Beatles

* Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the Cheek to Cheek dance in Top Hat, are in the " Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds " section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine ( 1968 ).

It was recorded in 1968 for the album The Beatles ( aka " The White Album "), but was not used.

The Beatles is the ninth official album by the English rock group The Beatles, a double album released in 1968.

The Beatles was recorded between 30 May 1968 and 14 October 1968, largely at Abbey Road Studios, with some sessions at Trident Studios.

It went on to be The Beatles ' most successful single, with world sales over 5 million by the end of 1968 and 7. 5 million by October 1972.

The Beatles was released on 22 November 1968.

The Beatles were at the peak of their global influence and visibility in late 1968.

One important current trend in critical assessments of the album is to draw parallels between the band's disintegrating ensemble and the chaotic events of the tumultuous year in which The Beatles was created, 1968.

The Beatles were fans of the Bonzos: they featured them in the 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour and Paul McCartney ( working with Gus Dudgeon under the alias Apollo C. Vermouth ) had produced their 1968 hit single " I'm the Urban Spaceman ".

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 ).

In 1968, the show broadcast in successive weeks " music videos " ( not called that at the time ) for The Beatles ' popular songs Hey Jude and Revolution.

Emerick abandoned work on The Beatles on 16 July 1968, fed up with the tensions and arguments that hampered the sessions.

In 1968, the music of The Beatles and the Peter Max-inspired psychedelic artwork of Canadian-born animator George Dunning came together to create Yellow Submarine.

The Beatles ' official biographer Hunter Davies was present while the song was being written and wrote an account in his 1968 biography of the Beatles.

Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song " Glass Onion " he sings " now here's another clue for you all — the walrus was Paul ", ; in the third verse of " Come Together " he sings the line " he bag production, he got walrus gumboot ", and in his 1970 solo song " God ", admits " I was the walrus, but now I'm John.

The album features a cover version of the Beatles ' " It's All Too Much " from the 1968 Yellow Submarine movie and 1969 soundtrack.

* George Harrison's 1975 song " This Guitar ( Can't Keep from Crying )", a lyrical sequel to his Beatles track " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", references the magazine in its second verse: " Learned to get up when I fall / Can even climb Rolling Stone walls ".

" As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by the line " tangerine trees and marmalade skies " from The Beatles ' track " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

In 1988, the group released the album Let It Be, featuring cover versions of all the songs from the Beatles album of the same name, with the exception of the title track, which they did not record owing to lack of studio time, and " Maggie Mae ", which was replaced by the German anthems " Auf der Lüneburger Heide " and " Was Gleicht Wohl Auf Erden ".

Other songs recorded for, but ultimately left off The Beatles received significant exposure via bootlegs, notably Harrison's " Circles " ( which he eventually re-recorded as a solo track and released on his 1982 album, Gone Troppo ) and " Not Guilty ", and Lennon's manic " What's the New Mary Jane ".

More recently, the song " Revolution 1 ( Take 20 )", a previously unknown track, surfaced in 2009 on a bootleg and is supposed to connect " Revolution 1 " and the avant-garde " Revolution 9 " ( both of which appeared on The Beatles ) in an attempt by Lennon to record one long version of " Revolution " before ultimately splitting the two songs up.

Clapton played on the track " City Blues ," and McCartney's collaboration on " A Friend Like You " fulfilled for many a fantasy union of the legendary Beatles with the legendary Beach Boys.

Idle claims on the All You Need Is Cash DVD commentary track that Harrison and Starr at one point discussed starting a band with Innes and Idle, based on the Beatles ' and Rutles ' shared and imaginary histories.

The re-released single reached # 23 in the U. S ; a US-only compilation album containing the track The Early Beatles, re-entered the album charts at # 197.

A well-known example of an unofficial video include one made for Danger Mouse's illegal mash-up of the Jay-Z track " Encore " with music sampled from The Beatles ' White Album, in which concert footage of The Beatles is remixed with footage of Jay-Z and rap dancers.

The title track in particular recalled the sounds of the 1960s, and that, along with an album cover that resembled that of the classic image of With The Beatles, has sometimes seen the Sunday's Child album referred to as a tribute album of sorts to the 1960s.

" George P Pelecanos of Uncut magazine has called it " One of the great rock ' n roll performances, and as close to a perfect song as anyone's ever recorded ," while Chris T-T in the same publication declared " Never mind The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, this is the best rock ' n roll track of all time.

The first album Emerick worked on with the Beatles as their main recording engineer under Martin was Revolver, and " Tomorrow Never Knows " was the first track he worked on.

" A different mix of the song later became the closing track of Let It Be ( 1970 ), which was the Beatles ' last album released just after the group split.

The Beatles had EMI produce a mono remix of the track on 4 April, completed by Jeff Jarrett.

The only other Beatles ' track to employ this recording method was " The End " on Abbey Road.

The basic backing track featuring the Beatles was released in 1996 on Anthology 2.

The exchange is recorded in The Beatles Recording Sessions ( slightly misquoted ) and audible on track 8 of disc 2 of Anthology 2.

" A Day in the Life " is a song by The Beatles, the final track on the group's 1967 album Sgt.

This may have been helped by the track " You Can't Do That ", in which Nilsson covered one Beatles song but added 22 others in the multi-tracked background vocals.

However, they praised the track " Better ," comparing it to the psychedelic rock work of The Beatles.

Even though " Hey Jude " was recorded during the sessions for the album The Beatles, also known as the White Album, it was always intended as a single and not an album track.

Part of the 1963 track is featured as an unlockable special feature on The Beatles: Rock Band.

The collection featured covers of songs by Cat Stevens, the title track, recordings by Judy Garland, The Beatles and the Everly Brothers, as well as two new original songs.