When Dan Absher shared his favorite Beatles love songs this Valentine's Day, the list revealed something deeper than romance: it mapped the full spectrum of how the Beatles understood love, from its giddy beginning to its aching end.
No band in history explored love more thoroughly than the Beatles. From the breathless excitement of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to the world-weary devotion of "The Long and Winding Road," from the ecstatic joy of "Here Comes the Sun" to the quiet ache of "In My Life": their catalog contains every shade of love a human being can feel.
This Valentine's Day playlist isn't just for the romantics. It's for anyone who has loved something or someone enough to work for it, fight for it, or let it go. The Beatles understood that love, like leadership, requires patience, vulnerability, and the willingness to be changed by another person. These 10 songs are the evidence.
