The Beatles used to choose accuratly in which order songs would be published in their albums. George Martin remembers their rule was to begin a side with a “strong” hit and end it with one hard to be followed by anything else.

By the way it doesn’t mean that songs were recorded in the same order as they would be put on record: this choise would be made later.

So we thought to give curious people a list of the first songs to be recorded for each album (for this and other similar informations we thank Mark Lewisohn’s and Ian MacDonald’s books).

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