Is "Rain" the quintessential Beatles song?

[Gyrofrog]

@garethb2

its A-side, “Paperback Writer”

From a previous BBS discussion:

Newly uploaded videos of The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" and "Rain"

From I, Wabenzi by Rafi Zabor: Hearing Mevlevi music for the first time was an experience of another order. The first piece on the UNESCO record was the Na’at, a setting of Jelaluddin Rumi’s hymn to the Prophet, performed unaccompanied by a blind singer named Kani Karaca who had one of the most extraordinary voices I’d ever heard; four or five times in the course of the Na’at Karaca soared through an elongated, ornamented melody identical to the setting of the word “Rain” in the Beatles’ song;…