I am a huge fan of Beatles Rock Band, which we got for our Wii at Christmas. I was at best a mild fan of the other Rock Band games: those games, it turns out, are for people who grew up miming hair-band guitar solos on their tennis rackets. But if you grew up cheekily bobbing your air-guitar neck and grinning to the girls in the crowd like you saw Paul and George do in old Ed Sullivan video, Beatles Rock Band is for you.

The only dispiriting thing about the game for me (besides not being able to master the bass part to “Within You Without You”) is learning how many Beatles lyrics I’ve been singing wrong for thirty years. Did you know that the second verse of “Get Back” is about “sweet Loretta Martin,” not “sweet Loretta Modern”? Yeah, you probably did. You probably also knew that the “Paperback Writer” lyric is not “it’s a thousand pages, will you take a few?” but “it’s a thousand pages, give or take a few,” which makes more sense. I don’t think I ever understood the line “why on earth should I moan” in “A Hard Day’s Night.” I usually just sang something like “so I anershadime own,” with the vague idea that “anershadime” probably isn’t a word.

At least I knew there wasn’t a song about “Ella Marigby.”