Review: When John, Paul, Ringo and George put their minds to it, they made incredibly romantic tracks. While some of their most groundbreaking efforts as The Beatles would be steeped in surrealism and psychedelia, even at their trippiest there's plenty of sentimentality to make us stop and consider how much that person means to us. Whoever that is. Love Songs is a compilation that really takes that idea and runs with it, made up of the band's most amorous singles and album tunes recorded between 1962 and 1970. 'Yesterday', 'I Follow The Sun', 'Something', 'If I Fell' and 'Norwegian Wood' reflect the scope of what's here, both in terms of songwriting credits but also era and - as a result - sound. One of the less obvious ways to remember one of the greatest groups in British pop history.
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