REVEALED: X Factor song choices for Beatles week

REVEALED: X Factor song choices for Beatles week
REVEALED: X Factor song choices for Beatles week

The song choices for this week's Beatles themed X Factor show have been revealed with Cher singing Imagine, Rebecca with Yesterday and Katie attempting Help. For the first time in The X Factor's history, the contestants will be singing songs by The Beatles. The theme was confirmed on Matt Edmondson's F Factor; now each of the eight final acts' song choices have been revealed too. Cher Lloyd will be singing the John Lennon classic Imagine, Paije Richardson is going for Let It Be, Rebecca Ferguson will no doubt deliver a moving performance of Yesterday, while Katie Waissel is appropriately singing the track Help after ending up in the bottom two for a fourth time last week. Mary Byrne will be singing Something, Matt Cardle plans to belt out Come Together while One Direction will sing All You Need Is Love and Wagner will attempt to stay in the competition with a performance of a medley of Beatles' hits, including Get Back, Hippy Hippy Shake and Hey Jude. All the Beatles action kicks off on Saturday from 8pm on ITV1.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.