No, The Beatles Didn’t Write ALL Of Their Own Music

To some of you out there, I am stating what you have always suspected, but to the overwhelming majority, I suspect my opening headline is like a punch in the gut. Nevertheless, it is true.

There has been some excellent investigative journalism done over the last decade, which is gathering pace as the field of contributors continues to expand, and the revelations it brings is paradigm shifting, to say the least.

I am not touching on the topic of the Paul Is Dead conspiracy, I’ll leave that up to interested parties to investigate for themselves, but instead, limit this post on easily obtainable factual evidence.

Firstly, we are supposed to believe that The Beatles came to the recording studio for the first time in March 1963 to record their first album, Please Please Me, and that they recorded the whole album in one day. One day. The album consisted of 8 original songs and 6 cover versions. So, to record the 14 songs in one day, they must have all been written months before, at least.

The cover songs on the album were:

Boys was written by Luther Dixon and was recorded by the Shirelles in 1960.

Twist and shout by Phil Medley, written in 1961 and recorded by the Top Notes.

A Taste of honey was written by Bobby Scott in 1958 and was performed on Broadway in 1960.

Baby its you was written by Burt Bacharach and was first released by The Shirelles in 1961.

Chains was written by Carole King and was recorded by the Cookies in 1962.

Anna (Go to him) was written by Arthur Alexander and was released by him in September 1962.

So, look at the two pictures attached from the August 23rd 1963 edition of Mersey Beat magazine. This magazine was the place to go to on the Mersey sound, and the Beatles were included in that genre of bands from the Liverpool area. Mersey Beat had reporters that were fed information from the record labels, studios and the band members and their associates themselves.

Remember, this was in the period before The Beatles were famous to anyone outside of Liverpool, and they had not released even a single song. Now, ‘They will be recording numbers that have been specially written for the group’ is pretty unambiguous. It is also just a simple statement of the fact. This means that some or all of the songs that are attributed to Lennon & McCartney on the album are not by them at all. It also says that ‘they have received’ from George Martin, not will be but have.

So, let’s get this straight in our minds. The cover band members have received more songs for them to cover, and obviously they will be learning them, prior to going in to the studio for the single day, later in the year.

No comparisons of Lennon & McCartney to the great composers of their time existed back in 1963, no Beatle mania or constant media coverage. In fact, the Beatles were just a rock and roll cover band, and an average one at that, so it is not surprising that Mersey Beat was reporting the fact that these young lads in a cover band, were heading to the studio for the first time, in order to sing some more covers for their first album. It is a pretty unremarkable fact about some pretty unremarkable people, at the time, that is.

I am just going to let this fact sink in to your minds before I continue along this line of reasoning, because the gravity of this fact needs to be grasped. The three most important questions now need to be asked by everyone: What if the Beatles didn’t write ALL of their own music?, What if they didn’t write ANY of their own music? And Who wrote the music that they recorded vocals on?

The growing evidence that is accumulating, and that will answer these questions, is slowly and patiently being collated, but until it can be presented in a fully coherent and comprehensive manner, I suggest watching the 4 hour presentation by Mike Williams on his Sage of Quay channel, link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccEhmQ0M4FY&list=PLAW3gU1yflm_lFhOhwLoIQRXg8ZHLhevX

To prepare yourself for the upcoming news on the reality of the music industry and the truth about the abilities of composers and musicians that we have grown to know and love, I would also recommend reading Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan and the quadrilogy of books by Mark Devlin, entitled Musical Truth. That should be enough to gird your loins, but yes, folks, there is a growing mountain of evidence that lots of our favourite ‘performers’ are just that, performers. Stay tuned for the next instalment, and in the meantime, don't forget to do some homework.