“Help!” is The Beatles fifth official UK album and their second soundtrack album (see previous post on the Beatles movie “Help!”) Released on 6 August 1965, it was a mammoth hit, becoming the first album ever to debut at #1 in the UK. It spent 11 weeks at #1 in the US and even did […]
Eleven days after the release of “Beatles for Sale” in the UK, a similar album entitled “Beatles ‘65″ was released in the US. This version left out “Eight Days a Week”, “Every Little Thing”, “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party”, “What You’re Doing”, and the covers “Words of Love”, and “Kansas City/Hey, Hey, […]
Just over two months after completing "A Hard Day’s Night", The Beatles were back in the studio, working on their fourth official UK album. After the all-original "A Hard Day’s Night", many people were critical of "Beatles for Sale" for the covers that comprise almost half of the album. Still exhausted from the previous album […]
"A Hard Day’s Night" was the third UK and fourth US album by The Beatles. Created specifically to be a soundtrack, it was released on 26 June 1964 in the US, a month and a half before the US release of the film. In the UK, the album was released on 10 July, just four […]
On 10 April 1964, Capitol Records in the US released their second Beatles album. There were already two UK albums, and Vee-Jay Records had released a US album, so it was properly the band’s third US album and fifth overall. I am posting only about tracks penned by The Beatles, and the records where […]
Just four months after the release of their debut album "Please Please Me", The Beatles unleashed "With the Beatles" on 22 November 1963. Like its predecessor, the new album contained eight original songs and four covers. Despite having six new hit songs available that had only been released on singles, the band chose to do […]
Propelled by the success of the "Please Please Me" single, George Martin and The Beatles set out to record a whole album. In addition to the four tracks from their two released singles, they would record 10 more. Due to time and budgetary constraints, and pleased with the sound of their live act, the […]
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