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Analysis queue · late-period catalog

The Beatles, recorded 1969 forward

Everything the band tracked from January 1969 on: all of Abbey Road, the Get Back / Let It Be sessions, and the 1969 non-album singles. This is the working queue for per-song deep dives, built off the same source stack (Pollack, HookTheory, Isophonics, BeatlesFC).

The last Beatles songs

These are the Beatles songs made from 1969 until they stopped.

There are two big records: Abbey Road and Let It Be.

There are also a few songs that only came out as singles, not on those records.

We sort them by the year the band recorded them, not the year they came out.

A few Let It Be songs were partly recorded in 1968.
We mark those so we do not fib about the year.

We are going to make one study page for each song, one at a time.

A green tag marks a song that already has its own study page.
A blue tag marks one still waiting its turn.

How dates are handled. "Recorded 1969 forward" is scored by when the band tracked the song, not when it was released.
A few Let It Be tracks have basic takes from 1968; those are flagged with an amber pill and a note so nothing here overstates the year.
Album running orders and recording windows are the widely documented ones; confirm any single fact at the linked sources before quoting.

Abbey Road (recorded Feb–Aug 1969)

Released 26 September 1969.
Every track tracked in 1969.

#SongLead writer (credited Lennon–McCartney unless noted)Status
1Come TogetherLennonpage ready
2SomethingHarrisonqueued
3Maxwell’s Silver HammerMcCartneypage ready
4Oh! DarlingMcCartneypage ready
5Octopus’s GardenStarrpage ready
6I Want You (She’s So Heavy)Lennonpage ready
7Here Comes the SunHarrisonpage ready
8BecauseLennonpage ready
9You Never Give Me Your MoneyMcCartneypage ready
10Sun KingLennonpage ready
11Mean Mr. MustardLennonpage ready
12Polythene PamLennonpage ready
13She Came In Through the Bathroom WindowMcCartneypage ready
14Golden SlumbersMcCartneypage ready
15Carry That WeightMcCartneypage ready
16The EndMcCartneypage ready
17Her MajestyMcCartneypage ready

Let It Be (Get Back sessions, Jan 1969; released May 1970)

Released 8 May 1970.
Tracked mostly January 1969; two flags below.

#SongLead writerStatus
1Two of UsMcCartneypage ready
2Dig a PonyLennonpage ready
3Across the UniverseLennonpage ready
4I Me MineHarrisonpage ready
5Dig Itgroup creditpage ready
6Let It BeMcCartneypage ready
7Maggie Maetraditional, arr. grouppage ready
8I’ve Got a FeelingMcCartney / Lennonpage ready
9One After 909Lennonpage ready
10The Long and Winding RoadMcCartneypage ready
11For You BlueHarrisonpage ready
12Get BackMcCartneypage ready

1969 non-album singles & leftovers

Tracked in 1969, released on singles rather than the two studio albums.

#SongLead writerStatus
1The Ballad of John and YokoLennonpage ready
2Old Brown ShoeHarrisonpage ready
3You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)Lennon / McCartneypage ready