“Michelle” by The Beatles

"Michelle" is the tender one on the Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul, a love ballad Paul McCartney wrote mostly on his own, with John Lennon chipping in on the middle eight, and with part of the lyric sung in French. McCartney sings lead and plays bass, all three guitarists strum acoustics, George Harrison adds electric guitar, Ringo Starr keeps the time, and George Martin produced it with Norman Smith engineering.

In early 1966 it came out as one in parts of Europe and New Zealand, and on an EP in France, and it went to number one in Belgium, France, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand. The 1967 Grammys named it Song of the Year, and few Beatles songs have been recorded by more people since.

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