Paul McCartney and John Lennon just couldn’t keep their songs to themselves. In addition to the Beatles’ unmatched catalogue, the talented songwriting duo penned dozens of diddies for other artists — including Fame, co-written by Lennon and performed by David Bowie, the 1964 hit A World Without Love, written by McCartney and recorded by the English duo Peter and Gordon, and the chart-topping single Come and Get It, also written by McCartney and performed by Badfinger. Even the Rolling Stones borrowed from the Beatles. The band released their version of the McCartney/Lennon song I Wanna Be Your Manthree weeks before Lennon and McCartney did.
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Beatles
In honor of the long-awaited The Beatles: Rock Band release and the band's digitally remastered studio albums, TIME explores some of the lesser-known facts about the Fab Four