Past: Songs The Beatles Gave Away

In addition to writing their own music, both John Lennon and Paul McCartney also regularly penned songs for other recording artists, including Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Peter and Gordon, The Rolling Stones, Badfinger, and others. Beatles scholar Aaron Krerowicz considers all 26 such giveaways, comparing and contrasting them to recordings actually done by the Beatles.