Published at 7:05 AM on January 2, 2009

By Steve LaBate

The Coolest Beatles Songs You Might Have Missed, Vol. 5

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"Baby’s In Black" 
The most morose of early Beatles song, this Lennon/McCartney song (from Beatles For Sale/Beatles '65) is fabled to be about the mourning Astrid Kirchner, fiancée of original Beatles bassist Stu Sutcliffe (who died of a brain hemorrhage while in art class in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962). “Baby’s in Black” feels almost more like early Stones than The Beatles—all it’s missing is Mick Jagger’s voice and Brian Jones accenting it with some weird instrument. 


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