The Beatles were an enigma to me growing up, ever since my father showed me Sgt. Peppers as a kid, I could stare at that cover for hours. There was always new things to discover about their music and legend where elsewhere I was having to put up with Brit-Pop and whatever was in the charts that week being played by a sibling.
I heard Jealous Guy by John Lennon and then he played me Child of Nature and at every opportunity he’d expand my mind on the nature of genius. My Dad’s not been with us for nearly a decade now and often I find myself searching the internet for things I felt like he would have ended up sharing with me.
This morning I spent a lot of time tracking down recordings from the Quarrymen and sessions from before the Beatles released any material officially and when it got to this evening I came across an article detailing all Unreleased Lennon and McCartney compositions and the latest ones that were listed had actually been recorded and I thought, surely not. And yet…