Ask who holds the most UK number-one singles and the Official Charts answer is clear once you set the rules of the tally. With 21 number one singles on that tally, Elvis holds the record.
In the summer of 1968, during the sessions for the album The Beatles, George Harrison stepped into an empty room at EMI Studios on Abbey Road and started a song at the piano.
On 5 September 1967 The Beatles were back at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, with a new John Lennon song that refused to behave like a pop lyric.
In the autumn of 1966 John Lennon was in Almería, in southern Spain, acting in Richard Lester's film How I Won the War, and between scenes he wrote Strawberry Fields Forever.
On 13 April 1966 The Beatles booked EMI Studio Three at Abbey Road for a song Paul McCartney had brought in that week, a letter from a writer to a publisher.
On 19 January 1967 John Lennon sat at a piano in EMI Studios with a copy of the Daily Mail in front of him and started the last song on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
On 5 September 1968 George Harrison brought Eric Clapton into Studio Two at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, to play lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
