Quiz: How Fast Can You Name Who Wrote These Beatles Songs?

You know the tracks that belong to each Beatles album. If we asked you to name the album based on the cover art, you’d be able to do it. But how well do you know who wrote the songs Can you name the writer(s) of the track based on just the title? We have a quiz for you to test your knowledge!

It’s not easy figuring out who wrote which Beatles song, so if you scored 10/10, we’re impressed. You definitely deserve bragging rights, so why not share with your friends and see how well they do?

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Top 5 Beatles Tracks of All Time

Rolling Stone has put together the list of top five tracks from the Beatles. Many of the songs were written by both John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but as you know from the quiz, there were some greats for other members of the band, and even the producer and other songwriters. Out of the top five, they come from either the duo who is accredited for most songs or from themselves individually.

Some of these weren’t released as singles, though, and there were some good arguments at the time. The track in fifth place is “In My Life,” which was written by both Lennon and McCartney, and was something that came more from Lennon’s life. He’d always said that he had two different writing personas for books and music, with his songwriting persona being more for the “meat market” of the industry. That started to change with “In My Life.”

In fourth place is the McCartney-written “Yesterday.” It reached No. 1 on the charts and spent 11 weeks trending, becoming one of the most covered songs in history. McCartney shared that the track came easily to him in a dream.

John Lennon’s “Strawberry Fields Forever” comes up next, which spent nine weeks on the charts and made it as high as No. 8. The track was written while Lennon was filming How I Won the War in Spain in September 1966, where he had time to go back to childhood memories for inspiration.

Of course, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” is up there, and I dare you to not get it stuck in your head now. The Lennon-McCartney track spent 15 weeks on the charts, reaching No. 1, and it was the first track to blast the airwaves with success. This was despite the joyous tune hitting in the United States at a time of sadness across the nation, as JFK had been assassinated just a month earlier.

The top spot goes to a track that wasn’t released as a single. “A Day in the Life,” written by Lennon and McCartney, was considered a “peak” for the former of the duo.

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