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[Loco Mo]

I think it's Let it Be.  Runners-up are Yesterday and Hey Jude.  When I say this it's because I think they are the most well known and most played of all his songs.  They're also his Beatles songs.  I don't think any of his solo stuff is as famous as these 3 songs.

[Moogmodule]

I think it's Let it Be.  Runners-up are Yesterday and Hey Jude.  When I say this it's because I think they are the most well known and most played of all his songs.  They're also his Beatles songs.  I don't think any of his solo stuff is as famous as these 3 songs.

Hard to narrow down for Paul. All you mention are contenders. I’d say Eleanor Rigby is up there too.

[blmeanie]

Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Let it Be, Hey Jude, Penny Lane

Greatest/Most well known/most played/famous - lots of overlap in these defining words but Greatest sits in a more subjective place than the others.

All 5 above would be on every Paul playlist I make, as for solo work, two come to mind that can hang with them, Band on the Run and Maybe I'm Amazed.

[Loco Mo]

Moog and blmeanie:  I actually think Eleanor Rigby may be Paul's greatest work.  I didn't include it in my list because I think that the 3 songs I named are the ones I most often hear.  I think they are played the most.  I have no way of proving this so maybe it's just my perception.

Yes, it's true Band on the Run and Maybe I'm Amazed are outstanding classics in Paul's catalog and I did think of them, too.  But - I'm sticking with the 3 I named.

You know, you have to be in a certain kind of mood to listen to Eleanor Rigby. It's pretty deep really.  This is a song I love but am unlikely to "press to play."  I like "Maybe I'm Amazed."  The only trouble is I don't personally have anything to be amazed about and I don't have a soulmate/lover like Paul did when he wrote that.  So, I need songs I can kind of relate to.  Let it Be works for me because most depressing things in my life are stuff I can't do anything about other than some feeble efforts to overturn them.

Band on the Run - well, that's about everyone wanting the Beatles to get back together.  Yes, it's good music but it's nothing I can relate to personally.  That's Paul's world, not mine.

[Beatlemaniac64]

You Never Give Me Your Money ranks up there to me. Brilliant song. So many things intertwined. I wish the average citizen could be more familiar with it. And to think a 27-some year old did it. Also shocking is Eleanor Rigby. A 24 year old did that. Amazing.

And I Love Her is my personal favorite song. Pretty much my favorite of all time. Amazing feel to it. The key switches ever so slightly. Plus, oddly, it's considered a cha-cha. It was my and my husband's first dance song at our wedding!

[Hello Goodbye]

And I Love Her is my personal favorite song. Pretty much my favorite of all time. Amazing feel to it. The key switches ever so slightly. Plus, oddly, it's considered a cha-cha. It was my and my husband's first dance song at our wedding!

Yes, the guitar solo shifts up a half-key.  And it is a cha-cha with George's Spanish style strum pattern and the bongos and claves.

Welcome back, Julia.

[Moogmodule]

You Never Give Me Your Money ranks up there to me. Brilliant song. So many things intertwined. I wish the average citizen could be more familiar with it. And to think a 27-some year old did it. Also shocking is Eleanor Rigby. A 24 year old did that. Amazing.

And I Love Her is my personal favorite song. Pretty much my favorite of all time. Amazing feel to it. The key switches ever so slightly. Plus, oddly, it's considered a cha-cha. It was my and my husband's first dance song at our wedding!

Hard to argue with those either.

It is amazing to think how young they were doing this stuff.

[KelMar]

I agree with everyone's choices. That's why I don't do well with picking favorites. 

Good to see you back, Julia!

[nimrod]

I think here there and everywhere is just so brilliant.

[Beatlemaniac64]

Thank you Hello Goodbye and Kelley for the welcome back!