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The reason why John Lennon returned his MBE
By 1965, The Beatles were already one of the biggest and most successful groups in popular music, culminating in the phenomenon known as Beatlemania. Whether you like them or not, you can’t deny this fact; to this day, they remain the best-selling musical act to have ever existed. It didn’t take long for the Fab Four to experience this kind of success; their first album,
Please Please Me, peaked at number one and remained there for a whopping 30 weeks.
Their astronomical commercial success didn’t end with the first album either –
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Case in point. Come Together by the Beatles which is actually taken from Chuck Berry s You Can t Catch Me
Here Berry performs the song after an intro by Alan Freed in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock . Berry sings about his brand new airmobile which is so fast that you can t catch him. Berry goes on to tell the story of driving on the New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours, rolling slowly cause of drizlin showers
He goes on to sing a line very familiar to Beatles fans Here come a flat-top which is very similar to the Here come old flat top opening of Come Together