The early songs are lyrically naive but that simplicity has given the Beatles a universality no other band has managed to achieve.
From a recording point of view, the simple four-track, sometimes mono, sound and structure of the early songs seem dated, but the musical quality is undeniable.
It is certainly true that the Stones did spend a few days in early 1964 dashing out songs on an old two-track recorder in Regent Sounds Studio at 4 Denmark Street - and the rest is musical history.
Mr. Barry is responsible for the words to some of the most influential teenage love songs of the early '60s sung from the female perspective.
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He sang where he could, too, in the early years: bhajans, or devotional songs, for All India Radio's Lucknow station for 25 rupees a day, and occasional songs for films later.
Since then I have presented a number of mainline BBC programmes, including Breakfast News, Songs of Praise, the early evening news programme Reporting Scotland (which I anchor in Glasgow twice a week), A Family of My Own and, of course, Hard Cash.
For anyone who remembers Karen O. flinging beer on her audiences at tiny club gigs during the band's early days, the joy in the new songs is the way the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have learned to go pop without compromising their free-wheeling exuberance.
The band played 23 songs including some of their rarely-played early numbers such as It's All Over Now and their cover version of the Beatles' I Wanna Be Your Man.
Early reports suggest the service will let users listen to the songs that are trending as most popular on Twitter and elsewhere on the Web.
Their first observation was that the songs of those males that had suffered fleas in early life were a third shorter than those sung by the others.
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The pair have continued to work together over the years, including the Chess musical in the 1980s, and Andersson said their last pop collaboration was on songs for an album by singer Josefin Nilsson in the early 1990s.
There's sing-songs, dancing and card games that go on into the early hours.
Both Bonham-Carter and Depp will perform their own songs in Sweeney Todd, which is due to start filming in early 2007.
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Even at this early stage, Aznavour - who is completely self-taught on the piano - was writing and composing songs.
But as well as tackling heated and important issues with his songs, the artist-turned-activist has also been producing and starring in feature films since the early 1990s, using his celebrity to empower and influence others.
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