 TL;DR: Paul McCartney wrote The Beatles Back in the U.S.S.R. but John Lennon played on the track. The tune was partly a parody of a Chuck Berry song. The song became a hit single six years after The Beatles breakup. The Beatles Hulton Archive Stringer The Beatles Back in the U.S.S.R. was mostly ... The Beatles Back in the U.S.S.R. Only Became a Hit Years After... 