According to my informal rating algorithm, this is my least favourite Beatles song.

The Beatles Bible

A solo recording by Paul McCartney, ‘Wild Honey Pie’ was a singalong written in Rishikesh, India, and recorded at the end of the session for ‘Mother Nature’s Son’.

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"Wild Honey Pie" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney[3] and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Less than a minute in length, the song m…

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Wild Honey Pie is one of a few fragments and (charitably) “experiments” found on the White Album that escaped the Beatles’ normally rigorous quality control. A symptom of the way, by 1968, they were increasingly working independently of one another and producer George Martin.

To create something really good you cannot afford to censor your ideas before they take shape. Normally the band and their producer worked together, amazingly quickly, to select and shape the very best of their ideas, often improving them beyond recognition.

That didn’t happen with Wild Honey Pie.

While Wild Honey Pie was Paul McCartney’s independent work, the next track (my second least favourite – according to the algorithm), was largely John Lennon’s…