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The Beatles<\/a> are often celebrated for the versatility they insisted on throughout their time as a band; however, regardless of the whackier waters they chose to sail, they always placed on the charts.\u00a0<\/p>\n Listening to their discography is a real treat, as you get to hear the growth of the band from one album to the next. You get straightforward, catchy pop tracks from the beginning of their career, like \u2018Love Me Do\u2019 and \u2018I Wanna Hold Your Hand\u2019, which would get even the stiffest of toes and heads tapping and nodding and really put The Beatles on the platform they were able to grow on.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then you listen to some of their later albums, such as Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album, for the more experimental lilt to them. The adoring string sections in tracks like \u2018A Day in the Life<\/a>\u2019 and the ambitious abstractness of recordings such as \u2018Revolution 9\u2019 were a step left field for the Fab Four, which helped launch the notion of counterculture and made them a permanent fixture on the map of pioneering. However, even within these more serving themselves numbers, the band found hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to be impressed admiring the great songs that The Beatles have been responsible for, and one of the most successful tracks that came from this seemingly bottomless pit of successes was the track \u2018Hey Jude\u2019. Have you ever heard a song that was more fitting of the number-one spot in the charts than that? It\u2019s sweet throughout, but then has a large, floor-filling outro which you can still hear belted by crowds on dancefloors and in football stadiums today.\u00a0<\/p>\n The success of the song spoke for itself; you don\u2019t need to read into it too much. It stayed at number one for nine weeks and became one of the most talked about songs of the decade. Yes, there were many a great track that missed out on the chance to top the charts because of \u2018Hey Jude\u2019, and one of those tracks that had to settle for number two might surprise you.\u00a0<\/p>\n