query: What is the name of the second Beatles album?

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: track for programming purposes: "And I Love Her", as the final track that ends Program 4; the running order is as follows: In the U.S., the album sold 1,668,435 copies by December 31, 1964 and 2,051,486 copies by the end of the decade. The Beatles' Second Album The Beatles' Second Album is the Beatles' second Capitol Records album, and their third album released in the United States including "Introducing... The Beatles" released three months earlier on Vee-Jay Records. "The Beatles' Second Album" replaced "Meet the Beatles!" at number one on the album charts in the US. In 2004 "The Beatles'

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: The Beatles' Second Album The Beatles' Second Album is the Beatles' second Capitol Records album, and their third album released in the United States including "Introducing... The Beatles" released three months earlier on Vee-Jay Records. "The Beatles' Second Album" replaced "Meet the Beatles!" at number one on the album charts in the US. In 2004 "The Beatles' Second Album" was issued for the first time on compact disc (catalogue number CDP 7243 8 66877 2 2), (CDP 7243 8 66878 2 1) as part of "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1" boxed set and was issued in a miniature cardboard replica

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: available backlog of some 25 songs yet to be released by Capitol Records, it was decided to compile a follow-up album as soon as possible. "The Beatles' Second Album" was the first album of the group's work to be assembled by Capitol Records exclusively for the US market—"Meet the Beatles!" was a reconfigured, abridged version of "With the Beatles". "Second Album" was a potpourri collection that did not represent the Beatles' output at the time; the end result was an assembly of material from nearly a half-dozen sessions and sources. Capitol compiled the album using additional songs from four different

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: of "Thank You Girl" in stereo marked the only stereo version of the song released on any album in the US or UK for over 40 years, until another stereo version was released on the 2009 remastered edition of the "Past Masters" compilation album. The same stereo mix of "Thank You Girl" on "The Beatles' Second Album" was also included on "The Beatles Beat," released in Germany and Holland, as well as the original 2004 CD issue of "The Beatles Second Album" as included in "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1" boxed set. Since much echo was added, this version remains

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: versions on order to give the album the atmosphere of a live performance. This effect is more noticeable on the tracks culled from "With the Beatles", as those were recorded in two-track stereo. "Allmusic" said that ""The Beatles' Second Album" stands as probably the best pure rock & roll album ever issued of the group's music" because the album "avoid[s] any trace of the pop ballads favored by Paul McCartney that usually slowed down the group's other early albums, and the result was the longest uninterrupted body of then-hard rock & roll and R&B in their entire output." The inclusion

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: Me to You", the single for which "Thank You Girl" was the B-side. The song was only released as a single from Vee Jay Records (re-issued by Capitol in 1965 as a "Star Line" single); it would not appear on an album in the US until the 1973 compilation "1962–1966" (also known as "The Red Album"). In Canada, this record could not be called the Beatles' second album, since "Beatlemania! With the Beatles" and "Twist and Shout" had preceded it. A slightly different track listing was released to the Canadian market with similar cover art under the title "The Beatles'

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: Long Tall Sally". This longer (12-song) Canadian album did not include "Money", "Thank You Girl" or "She Loves You" but instead had "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "I Saw Her Standing There", "This Boy" and "Misery". In 1968, "The Beatles' Second Album", "The Early Beatles" and "Meet the Beatles!" were released in Canada, though the earlier Canadian LPs remained in print (eventually with stereo mixes) until the CD era precipitated their deletion in the late 1980s. All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted. See also: Lennon–McCartney. Note: The Capitol 8-track (8XT-2080) added one additional

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: the cowbell after the beginning of the vocal. Harrison's opening 12-string guitar phrase is also different between the mono and stereo versions. On "Long Tall Sally", reverb was added to the stereo version. The "dry" mono mix of "Long Tall Sally" is noticeably different from the mono mix with slight echo that was issued in the UK, and is unique to the "Second Album". The mono version of "You Can't Do That" is also different from the version on UK "A Hard Day's Night" LP for unknown reasons. Missing from "The Beatles' Second Album", also for reasons unknown, was "From

title: Meet the Beatles!

text: Beatles Production In the U.S., the album sold 4,045,174 copies by December 31, 1964 and 4,699,348 copies by the end of the decade. Meet the Beatles! Meet the Beatles! is the second Beatles album released in the United States. It was the first US Beatles album to be issued by Capitol Records, on 20 January 1964 in both mono and stereo formats. It topped the popular album chart on 15 February 1964 and remained at number one for eleven weeks before being replaced by "The Beatles' Second Album". The cover featured Robert Freeman's iconic portrait of the Beatles used in

title: Meet the Beatles!

text: Meet the Beatles! Meet the Beatles! is the second Beatles album released in the United States. It was the first US Beatles album to be issued by Capitol Records, on 20 January 1964 in both mono and stereo formats. It topped the popular album chart on 15 February 1964 and remained at number one for eleven weeks before being replaced by "The Beatles' Second Album". The cover featured Robert Freeman's iconic portrait of the Beatles used in the United Kingdom for "With the Beatles", with a blue tint added to the original stark black-and-white photograph. After constantly rejecting requests by

title: B-Sides The Beatles

text: B-Sides The Beatles B-Sides The Beatles is the ninth studio album by The Smithereens, released 2 September 2008 on Koch Records. The album features the band covering Beatles B-sides released in America in 1964 and early 1965. "B-Sides The Beatles" is the second album from The Smithereens that's devoted entirely to Beatles covers. Their 2007 release, "Meet The Smithereens!", was a song-by-song re-creation of The Beatles' 1964 debut American album, "Meet The Beatles!". Smithereens co-producer and engineer Kurt Reil explained: "The project started while we were making demos in preparation for the next new original Smithereens album. As the band

title: B-Sides The Beatles

text: MAD". All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted. Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. B-Sides The Beatles B-Sides The Beatles is the ninth studio album by The Smithereens, released 2 September 2008 on Koch Records. The album features the band covering Beatles B-sides released in America in 1964 and early 1965. "B-Sides The Beatles" is the second album from The Smithereens that's devoted entirely to Beatles covers. Their 2007 release, "Meet The Smithereens!", was a song-by-song re-creation of The Beatles' 1964 debut American album, "Meet The Beatles!". Smithereens co-producer and engineer Kurt Reil explained:

title: With the Beatles

text: were placed on "The Beatles' Second Album". The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965, making it the second album to sell a million copies in the United Kingdom, after the soundtrack to the 1958 film "South Pacific". "With the Beatles" remained at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing "Please Please Me", so that the Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks. It even reached number 11 in the "singles charts" (because at the time UK charts counted all records sold, regardless of format). EMI Australia

title: The Early Beatles

text: Beatles "The U.S. Albums" boxed set. The album consists of eleven of the fourteen tracks from the Beatles' first American album "Introducing...The Beatles" as well as their first British LP "Please Please Me". All songs written by Lennon-McCartney except where noted. The Early Beatles The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth release on Capitol Records, and their eighth album for the American market. All of the tracks on this album had previously been issued on the early 1964 Vee-Jay release "Introducing... The Beatles". The front cover photo for this album features the same back cover photo for the British LP

title: The Beatles' Long Tall Sally

text: tracks—from The Beatles' British EP "Long Tall Sally". Four of the tracks had already been released on the Canadian album "Beatlemania! With the Beatles". The cover design is almost identical to the US release "The Beatles' Second Album". All songs written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted. The album was deleted in 1967 but was reissued in 1971 along with the two other unique Canadian Beatles albums in Capitol's "6000 Series". The album was issued in stereo for the first time in 1976, though nearly all the "stereo" tracks are in the "reprocessed for stereo" format. This process involves creating a

title: The Yellow Album

text: The Yellow Album The Yellow Album is "The Simpsons" second album of originally recorded songs, released as a follow-up to the 1990 album "The Simpsons Sing the Blues". Though it was released in 1998, it had been recorded years earlier, after the success of the first album. The title is a play on the name of The Beatles' highly popular self-titled 1968 album, commonly known as ""The White Album"", with the skin color of the characters of "The Simpsons". In addition, the cover is a parody of The Beatles' 1967 album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The parody was

title: Introducing... The Beatles

text: which opens side 2 rather than "Please Please Me" (The song is rather placed on side 1, track 3). The Beatles Production Introducing... The Beatles Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album released in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol's "Meet the Beatles!". The latter album, however, entered the U.S. album chart one week before the former. Consequently, when "Meet The Beatles!" peaked at for eleven consecutive weeks, "Introducing...The Beatles" stalled at where it remained nine consecutive weeks. It was

title: Introducing... The Beatles

text: Introducing... The Beatles Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album released in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol's "Meet the Beatles!". The latter album, however, entered the U.S. album chart one week before the former. Consequently, when "Meet The Beatles!" peaked at for eleven consecutive weeks, "Introducing...The Beatles" stalled at where it remained nine consecutive weeks. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay was permitted to sell the album until late 1964, by which time it

title: Meet the Beatles!

text: remaining five tracks from "With the Beatles" were songs originally recorded by other artists. Capitol determined that for their first album they would only include original and fresh material. There was fear that the remakes would turn Americans off of the Beatles. The other five songs would appear on Capitol's next American LP, "The Beatles' Second Album", released in April 1964. The songs "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "This Boy" are in a duophonic [fake] stereo, as Capitol had not been provided proper stereo mixes. All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted. The

title: The Early Beatles

text: The Early Beatles The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth release on Capitol Records, and their eighth album for the American market. All of the tracks on this album had previously been issued on the early 1964 Vee-Jay release "Introducing... The Beatles". The front cover photo for this album features the same back cover photo for the British LP "Beatles for Sale". Vee-Jay had gained American distribution rights to the tracks before the group became popular in America (because Capitol, the US subsidiary of EMI which owned the Beatles' record label Parlophone, had declined to release the group's records in

title: Introducing... The Beatles

text: name; it still stated "Introducing... The Beatles" on the label. "Songs, Pictures and Stories" was released either in late July 1964 or 12 October 1964, with the latter the more likely date, because it entered the "Billboard" album chart on 31 October. It eventually peaked at number 63. The other repackaging was the two-record set "The Beatles vs the Four Seasons", which contained copies of "Introducing... The Beatles" in one pocket of the gatefold cover and "Golden Hits of the Four Seasons" (VJLP 1065) in the other. This Vee-Jay creation spent three weeks on the "Billboard" chart in October 1964

title: Love (The Beatles album)

text: Love (The Beatles album) Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by the Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The album was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin, who said, "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period." The album was also George Martin's final album as a producer before his death in 2016. George Martin and his son

title: The Beatles (album)

text: is what The Beatles are on about. Created by, creating for, their age."<ref name="MacDonald/WhiteRiot"></ref> Although he dismissed "Revolution 9" as a "pretentious" example of "idiot immaturity", the "NME"s Alan Smith declared "God Bless You, Beatles!" to the majority of the album. Jann Wenner of "Rolling Stone" called it "the history and synthesis of Western music", and the group's best album yet. Wenner contended that they were allowed to appropriate other styles and traditions into rock music because their ability and identity were "so strong that they make it uniquely theirs, and uniquely the Beatles. They are so good that they

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: of the original album sleeve containing the US mono and stereo mixes. In 2014, the album was released on CD again, individually and included in the Beatles boxed set "The U.S. Albums", which contained the album's running order but with UK mixes as remastered in 2009. The album was also issued on the EMI subsidiary label Odeon in 1964 for the Japanese market. That version had the same title and similar cover art but contained different songs than the US release. With the massive popularity of "Meet the Beatles!" and a desire for additional Beatles product as well as an

title: The Beatles (album)

text: The Beatles (album) The Beatles, also known as The White Album, is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's previous LP "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Although no singles were issued from "The Beatles" in Britain and the United States, the songs "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a

title: The Beatles (album)

text: avant-garde "Revolution 9". "The Beatles" was issued on 22 November 1968 in Britain, with a US release following three days later. The album's working title, "A Doll's House", had been changed when the English progressive rock band Family released the similarly titled "Music in a Doll's House" earlier that year. Schaffner wrote in 1977 of the name that was adopted for the Beatles' double album: "From the day of release, everybody referred to "The Beatles" as 'the White Album.'" "The Beatles" was the third album to be released by Apple Records, following Harrison's "Wonderwall Music", and Lennon’s "Two Virgins". Martin

title: The Beatles (album)

text: of nine weeks at the top. In all, "The Beatles" spent 186 weeks on the "Billboard" 200. The album has sold over 9.5 million copies in the United States alone and according to the Recording Industry Association of America, "The Beatles" is the Beatles' most-certified album, at 19-times platinum. All tracks written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted. Lead singer credits per Castleman and Podrazik's 1976 book "All Together Now". The Beatles Guest musicians Session musicians Production Original release 1987 reissue 2009 reissue 2018 reissue Footnotes Citations Sources Further reading The Beatles (album) The Beatles, also known as The White Album,

title: The Beatles (album)

text: and social battles of the day". Charles Manson first heard the album not long after it was released. He had already claimed to find hidden meanings in songs from earlier Beatles albums, but in "The Beatles" he interpreted prophetic significance in several of the songs, including "Blackbird", "Piggies" (particularly the line "what they need's a damn good whacking"), "Helter Skelter", "Revolution 1" and "Revolution 9", and interpreted the lyrics as a sign of imminent violence or war. He played the album repeatedly to his followers, the Manson family, and convinced them that it was an apocalyptic message predicting an uprising

title: The Beatles (album)

text: the album, for "Mojo" magazine, Ian MacDonald wrote that "The Beatles" regularly appears among the top 10 in critics' "best albums of all time" lists, yet it was a work that he deemed "eccentric, highly diverse, and very variable [in] quality".<ref name="MacDonald/WhiteRiot55"></ref> Rob Sheffield, writing in "The Rolling Stone Album Guide" (2004), said that its songs ranged from the Beatles' "sturdiest tunes since "Revolver"" to "self-indulgent filler". He derided tracks including "Revolution 9" and "Helter Skelter", but said that picking personal highlights was "part of the fun" for listeners. Writing for MusicHound in 1999, "Guitar World" editor Christopher Scapelliti described

title: The Beatles (album)

text: author Mark Lewisohn reports that the Beatles held their first and only 24-hour session at Abbey Road near the end of the sessions for "The Beatles", which occurred during the final mixing and sequencing for the album. This session was attended by Lennon, McCartney and producer George Martin. Unlike most LPs, there was no customary three-second gap between tracks, and the master was edited so that songs segued together, via a straight edit, a crossfade, or an incidental piece of music. The studio efforts on "The Beatles" captured the work of four increasingly individuated artists who frequently found themselves at

title: The Beatles (album)

text: that band." He also supported the idea of the double album, to clear out the backlog of songs that the group had at the time. By contrast, McCartney said that it was fine as it was, adding: "It's the bloody Beatles' "White Album". Shut up!" "The Beatles" was the last Beatles album to be mixed separately for both stereo and mono, though the mono version was issued only in the UK and a few other countries. All but one track exist in official mono mixes; the exception is "Revolution 9", which was a direct reduction of the stereo master. The

title: What Goes On (Beatles song)

text: entry in The Beatles catalogue. Unterberger praises George Harrison's guitar work, which "again marks him as the finest disciple of Carl Perkins," and the guitar work is indeed similar to "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", a Perkins cover version released on "Beatles for Sale". What Goes On (Beatles song) "What Goes On" is a song by the Beatles, featured as the eighth track on their sixth British album "Rubber Soul". The song was later released as the B-side of the US single "Nowhere Man", and then as the tenth track on the North America-only album "Yesterday and Today". It

title: The Beatles (album)

text: stereo only. In the UK, the following album, "Yellow Submarine", was the last to be shipped in mono. The mono version of "The Beatles" was made available worldwide on 9 September 2009, as part of "The Beatles in Mono" CD boxed set. A reissue of the original mono LP was released worldwide in September 2014. The album's sleeve was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, in collaboration with McCartney. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name, in Helvetica,

title: The Beatles (album)

text: release of "The Beatles". The album debuted at number 1 in the UK on 7 December 1968. It spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts (including the entire competitive Christmas season), until it was replaced by the Seekers' "Best of the Seekers" on 25 January 1969, dropping to number 2. However, the album returned to the top spot the following week, spending an eighth and final week at number 1. The album was still high in the charts when the Beatles' follow-up album, "Yellow Submarine", was released, which reached number 3. In all, "The Beatles" spent 22

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: UK releases. Included were the five remaining tracks from "With the Beatles". Also included were "Thank You Girl" (the B-side to the single "From Me to You"), the single "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You", "You Can't Do That" (the B-side to the single "Can't Buy Me Love") from the upcoming "A Hard Day's Night" UK soundtrack, and two new songs, "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name", both released two months later in the UK on the "Long Tall Sally" EP. Capitol Records engineers, headed by record executive Dave Dexter, Jr., added considerable echo and reverb to the stereo

title: The Beatles (album)

text: The second release, licensed by Ampex from EMI in early 1970 after the latter ceased manufacture of commercial reel-to-reel tapes, was issued as two separate volumes, and sequenced the songs in the same manner as on the cassette version. The Ampex reel tape version of "The Beatles" has become desirable to collectors, as it contains edits on eight tracks not available elsewhere. A painting of the band by John Byrne was at an earlier point under consideration to be used as the album's cover. The piece was later used for the sleeve of the compilation album "The Beatles' Ballads", released

title: The Beatles Ballads

text: The Beatles Ballads The Beatles Ballads is a compilation album featuring a selection of ballad songs by The Beatles. The album was not released in the United States, but in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia. In Australia, the album was a big success, spending 7 weeks at #1. It reached #17 in the UK. The cover art by "Patrick" (John Byrne) had been created in 1968 as a possible cover for what would become "The Beatles" ("The White Album"). Its style and concept appears to support the White Album's original

title: The Beatles (album)

text: the Byrds. Edwin Faust of "Stylus Magazine" described "The Beatles" as "foremost an album about musical purity (as the album cover and title suggest). Whereas on prior Beatles albums, the band was getting into the habit of mixing several musical genres into a single song, on "The White Album" every song is faithful to its selected genre. The rock n' roll tracks are purely rock n' roll; the folk songs are purely folk; the surreal pop numbers are purely surreal pop; and the experimental piece is purely experimental." The only western instrument available to the group during their Indian visit

title: The Beatles (album)

text: "Kerrang!" placed the album at number 49 on a list of "The 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time". The magazine praised the guitar work in "Helter Skelter". The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". According to MacDonald, the counterculture of the 1960s analysed "The Beatles" above and beyond all of the band's previous releases. The album's lyrics progressed from being vague to open-ended and prone to misinterpretation, such as "Glass Onion" (e.g., "the walrus was Paul") and "Piggies" ("what they need's a damn good whacking"). The release also coincided with public

title: The Beatles (album)

text: with Starr to reconsider. He duly returned on 5 September to find his drum kit decorated with flowers, a welcome-back gesture from Harrison. McCartney described the sessions for "The Beatles" as a turning point for the group, saying "there was a lot of friction during that album. We were just about to break up, and that was tense in itself", while Lennon later said "the break-up of the Beatles can be heard on that album". Of the album's 30 tracks, only 16 have all four band members performing. "The Beatles" contains a wide range of musical styles, which the authors

title: Love (The Beatles album)

text: for both discs is as follows: All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted (see also: Lennon–McCartney). "Love" contains elements from 130 individual commercially released and demo recordings of the Beatles, and is a complex remix and polymix of multiple songs known as a mashup. While a complete list has not been disclosed, highlights of how the elements were mixed have been noted by the press. Love (The Beatles album) Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by the Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for

title: The Beatles (album)

text: Beatles had not been particularly interested in stereo until this album, but after receiving mail from fans stating they bought both stereo and mono mixes of earlier albums, they decided to make the two different. Several mixes have different track lengths; the mono mix/edit of "Helter Skelter" eliminates the fade-in at the end of the song (and Starr's ending scream), and the fade out of "Yer Blues" is 11 seconds longer on the mono mix. In the US, mono records were already being phased out; the US release of "The Beatles" was the first Beatles LP to be issued in

title: The Beatles (album)

text: in 1980. In 2012 the original artwork was put up for auction. During 1978 and 1979, for the album's tenth anniversary, EMI reissued the album pressed on limited edition white vinyl in several countries. In 1981, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) issued a unique half-speed master variation of the album using the sound from the original master recording. The discs were pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl. The album was reissued, along with the rest of the Beatles catalogue, on compact disc in 1987. It was the only CD in the Beatles' catalogue to be issued in white jewel cases (as

title: The Beatles (album)

text: assumed the track had something to do with hell. This was one of the key tracks that led Manson to believe the album had coded messages referring to apocalyptic war, and led to his movement of the same name. The final song on side three is Harrison's "Long, Long, Long", part of the chord progression for which he took from Bob Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". MacDonald describes the song as Harrison's "touching token of exhausted, relieved reconciliation with God" and considered it to be his "finest moment on "The Beatles"". The recording session for the basic track

title: What Goes On (Beatles song)

text: What Goes On (Beatles song) "What Goes On" is a song by the Beatles, featured as the eighth track on their sixth British album "Rubber Soul". The song was later released as the B-side of the US single "Nowhere Man", and then as the tenth track on the North America-only album "Yesterday and Today". It is the only song by the band credited to Lennon–McCartney-Starkey. The original version of the song was written by John Lennon in the Quarrymen days and considered as a follow-up to "Please Please Me" in early 1963. A demo of this version featuring Lennon and

title: The Beatles' Second Album

text: a rarity. The Capitol album mix is also unique in that its version contains three additional harmonica riffs—two during the bridge and one at the end. For its US album debut, Capitol took this stereo version and transferred it into a two-to-one stereo-to-mono mixdown for the mono album release, thus creating an alternative mono mix of the song. The stereo version of "Money" also underwent the same two-to-one stereo-to-mono mixdown, thus creating another alternative mono mix. For the mono version of "I Call Your Name", the cowbell comes in at the very beginning of the song; the stereo version features

title: The Beatles (album)

text: agenda. The Beatles themselves were accused of using eclecticism and pastiche as a means of avoiding important issues in the turbulent political and social climate. Jon Landau, writing for the Liberation News Service, argued that, particularly in "Piggies" and "Rocky Racoon", the band had adopted parody because they were "afraid of confronting reality" and "the urgencies of the moment". Like Landau, many writers among the New Left considered the album outdated and irrelevant; instead, they heralded the Rolling Stones' concurrent release, "Beggars Banquet", as what Lennon biographer Jon Wiener terms "the 'strong solution,' a musical turning outward, toward the political

title: With the Beatles

text: With the Beatles With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut "Please Please Me". The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and "Don't Bother Me", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown, rock and roll, and R&B hits). The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman, and it has been mimicked by several music groups over the

title: The Beatles in India

text: a 2010 report.<ref name="Choudhury/DN&A"></ref> Lennon said: "We wrote about thirty new songs between us. Paul must have done about a dozen. George says he's got six, and I wrote fifteen. And look what meditation did for Ringo – after all this time he wrote his first song." Many of the songs became part of the White Album, while others appeared on "Abbey Road" in 1969 or on solo records. Released on "The Beatles": Released on "Abbey Road": Released on solo albums, and others: The Beatles in India In February 1968, the English rock band the Beatles travelled to Rishikesh in

title: With the Beatles

text: released a few months later.) The studio also tried to pull the cover because the Beatles were not smiling, and it was only after George Martin intervened that they won the day. Freeman was paid £75 for his work (three times the normal fee). According to Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles Production With the Beatles With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut "Please Please Me". The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and

title: Live at the BBC (Beatles album)

text: Live at the BBC (Beatles album) Live at the BBC is a 1994 compilation album featuring performances by the Beatles that were originally broadcast on various BBC Light Programme radio shows from 1963 to 1965. The mono album, available in multiple formats but most commonly as a two-CD set, consists of 56 songs and 13 tracks of dialogue; 30 of the songs had never been issued previously by the Beatles. It was the first official release by the Beatles of previously unreleased performances since "The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl" in 1977 and the first containing previously unreleased songs since

title: The Beatles (album)

text: your view". He concludes: "None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow "The Beatles" creates its own style and sound through its mess." Among reviews of the 2009 remastered album, Neil McCormick of "The Daily Telegraph" found that even its worst songs work within the context of such an eclectic and unconventional collection, which he rated "one of the greatest albums ever made". Writing for "Paste", Mark Kemp said "The Beatles" had been wrongly described as "three solo works in one (plus a Ringo song)", saying it "benefits from each member's wildly different

title: The Beatles (album)

text: Kinfauns and recorded formally (by Lennon, Harrison and Ono) during the 1968 album sessions. McCartney taped demos of two compositions at Abbey Road – "Etcetera" and "The Long and Winding Road" – the last of which the Beatles recorded in 1969 for their album "Let It Be". "The Beatles" versions of "Not Guilty" and "What's the New Mary Jane", and a demo of "Junk", were ultimately released on "Anthology 3". "Revolution (Take 20)", a previously uncirculated recording, surfaced in 2009 on a bootleg. This ten-minute take was later edited and overdubbed to create two separate tracks: "Revolution 1" and the

title: The Beatles (album)

text: of the four Kelly photographs. These two-tape releases were both contained in black outer cardboard slipcase covers embossed with the words "The Beatles" and the outline of an apple in gold print. The songs on the cassette version of "The Beatles" are sequenced differently from the album, in order to equalize the lengths of the tape sides. Two reel-to-reel tape releases of the album were issued, both using the monochrome Kelly artwork. The first, issued by Apple/EMI in early 1969, packaged the entire double-LP on a single tape, with the songs in the same running order as on the LPs.

title: The Beatles' First

text: 2004. The main tracks are in stereo on the first CD and in mono on the second CD. This release also contained a new sleeve. The similar album "The Early Tapes of The Beatles" (1984) was re-released on CD at a similar time to this deluxe edition release. All vocals by Tony Sheridan unless otherwise indicated. The Beatles' First The Beatles' First is the first British packaging of the 1962 German album by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers called "My Bonnie". It was recorded in Hamburg in 1961. It has been released in 1964, 1967 and 2004. "The Beatles'

title: Is This What You Want?

text: Is This What You Want? Is This What You Want? is the debut album by English rock and soul singer Jackie Lomax, released in 1969 on the Beatles' Apple record label. It is notable for the involvement of three Beatles: It was produced by George Harrison and features contributions from Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The album includes Lomax's debut single for Apple, the Harrison-written "Sour Milk Sea", while the US version added "New Day", which was produced by Lomax and released as a non-album single in Britain. The recording sessions for "Is This What You Want?" began in

title: The Beatles (album)

text: Spotify and iTunes. On release, "The Beatles" gained highly favourable reviews from the majority of music critics. Others bemoaned its length or found that the music lacked the adventurous quality that had distinguished "Sgt. Pepper". According to the author Ian Inglis: "Whether positive or negative, all assessments of "The Beatles" drew attention to its fragmentary style. However, while some complained about the lack of a coherent style, others recognized this as the album's "raison d'être"." In "The Observer", Tony Palmer wrote that "if there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert", the album

title: The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)

text: QuickTime format. It is the second complete box set collection of original Beatles recordings after "The Beatles Box Set" (1988). Two earlier album collections, "The Beatles Collection" (1978) and "" (1982) did not contain all of the Beatles recordings. Although sales were counted as 1 unit for each box set sold in the mono and stereo format, total individual sales exceeded 30 million. "The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)" received the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album at the 53rd Grammys. The box set was issued on vinyl in 2012. The sixteen-disc collection contains the remastered stereo versions of every

title: The Second Barbra Streisand Album

text: The Second Barbra Streisand Album The Second Barbra Streisand Album is the title of Barbra Streisand's second solo studio album. It was released in August 1963, just six months after the release of her debut album, "The Barbra Streisand Album", and was recorded in four days in June 1963. In 1963, Streisand told a reporter: "My new album is called "The Second Barbra Streisand Album", because that's just what it is. Why should I give it some fancy name that no one remembers anyway?" Radio stations received mono and stereo blue vinyl promo albums, making this Columbia's first Streisand colored

title: The Beatles' Long Tall Sally

text: The Beatles' Long Tall Sally The Beatles' Long Tall Sally is The Beatles' final album to be released exclusively in Canada. It was a mono release on the Capitol Records label (catalogue number T 6063) in May 1964. After the release of this album, Beatles' records in Canada would match the group's United States releases, starting with the United Artists version of the "A Hard Day's Night" album, and, on Capitol, "Something New". This was done under orders from Capitol president Alan W. Livingston. Earlier American Beatle album releases were also issued in Canada. This album borrows its name—and two

title: Jolly What!

text: that "copulation" was appropriate, since the makers of the album were "trying to screw the fans out of their money.") The album, however, was significant in that, until the release of the Beatles' 1973 compilation album, "The Beatles/1962-1966", "Jolly What!" was the only American Beatles album to include "From Me to You". Applies to both original (""Jolly What!"") and reissued version (""The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage"" with picture of Beatles on front). Side 1 Side 2 The Delaware-based band The Jolly What!, who are credited with inventing the Boogie Board Rock genre, took their name in tribute to

title: The Beatles: The Collection

text: The Beatles: The Collection The Beatles: The Collection was a vinyl boxed set of every Beatles album remastered at half speed from the original stereo master recordings, except for "Magical Mystery Tour" which was mastered from Capitol Records' submasters with the last three tracks in rechanneled stereo. Released with much anticipation in early October 1982, "The Collection" was lauded by critics and Beatles fans worldwide for the superb sound, and sold-out completely within the first year. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) pressed a second run of the Beatles Boxed Set for a total production run of 25,000 over the next

title: Songs of the Beatles

text: the inherent virtues of some of the tunes, Vaughan overcomes." Recorded in 1977: Songs of the Beatles Songs of the Beatles is a 1981 album by Sarah Vaughan of songs by The Beatles. The album contains songs written and originally performed by The Beatles with contemporaneous pop and jazz arrangements. On "Something" Vaughan was accompanied by the Brazilian singer and musician Marcos Valle. It was recorded in 1977 but was not released until 1981 due to a recording contract problem. On balance, "Los Angeles Times" jazz writer Leonard Feather is favorable in his assessment, awarding the album three and a

title: Songs of the Beatles

text: Songs of the Beatles Songs of the Beatles is a 1981 album by Sarah Vaughan of songs by The Beatles. The album contains songs written and originally performed by The Beatles with contemporaneous pop and jazz arrangements. On "Something" Vaughan was accompanied by the Brazilian singer and musician Marcos Valle. It was recorded in 1977 but was not released until 1981 due to a recording contract problem. On balance, "Los Angeles Times" jazz writer Leonard Feather is favorable in his assessment, awarding the album three and a half stars, notwithstanding some ill-advised commercial trimmings: "Recorded several years ago, inexplicably shelved

title: The Beatles (album)

text: the album as "self-indulgent and at times unlistenable" but identified "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and "Helter Skelter" as "fascinating standouts" that made it a worthwhile purchase. According to "Slant Magazine"s Eric Henderson, "The Beatles" is a rarity among the band's recorded works, in that it "resists reflexive canonisation, which, along with society's continued fragmentation, keeps the album fresh and surprising". In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that because of its wide variety of musical styles, the album can be "a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on

title: Is This What You Want?

text: the Walrus",<ref name="Staunton/RM 04">Terry Staunton, "Jackie Lomax: "Is This What You Want?"", "Record Collector", July 2004; available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required; retrieved 31 October 2012).</ref> and, conversely, pre-empting the similar-sounding "Come Together" by a full year.<ref name="Unterberger/AM">Richie Unterberger, "Jackie Lomax "Is This What You Want?"", AllMusic (retrieved 31 October 2012).</ref> Recording for "Is This What You Want?" began at EMI Studios in London in June 1968 and continued through the summer in between Harrison's work on the Beatles' White Album. While working alone at Trident Studios, down the hall from where the band were recording, Lomax was invited to

title: The Beatles' recording sessions

text: arrangement to the Beatles' recordings at Phillips' Sound Recording Services. The song, with a spoken advertisement as the B-side, was pressed onto nine mono 78 rpm acetate discs. After the song was recorded, Walters, Starr, Ty Brian and Johnny Byrne, all in the Hurricanes, recorded "Fever" and "September Song". None of the recordings was ever released. The session tapes were most likely erased and none of the discs are known to have survived. Musicians: In what is now the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, in the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium (then known as "" []), during the Beatles' second stint in Hamburg, the group, under the name

title: The Beatles' 1965 US tour

text: the Byrds and actor Peter Fonda. On 27 August, the Beatles met their musical hero Elvis Presley<ref name="Badman/MojoSpecial">Badman, Keith. "'Long Live Ze King!'". In: .</ref> at his house on Perugia Way in Bel Air. The Beatles played two concerts at Los Angeles' high-profile Hollywood Bowl. The second of these, on 30 August, featured one of the group's better performances and provided much of the material for their 1977 live album "The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl". The Beatles and their entourage arrived at London Airport (now Heathrow Airport) on 2 September, greeted by a crowd of fans. The band's experiences

title: What Is Life

text: it a year later, after completing work on Preston's second Apple album, "Encouraging Words". By May 1970, having recently collaborated with "genuine R&B heavy-weights" such as Doris Troy and Preston, as well as participating in the "blue-eyed soul" Delaney & Bonnie European tour, along with Eric Clapton, the previous December, Harrison was well placed to record "What Is Life", Leng observes. With Phil Spector as co-producer and all the Friends team on hand, the song was among the first tracks taped for Harrison's debut post-Beatles solo album; recording took place at Abbey Road Studios in London, during late May or

title: The Beatles (album)

text: of oppressed races, drawing parallels with chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation. Sociologists Michael Katovich and Wesley Longhofer write that the album's release created "a collective appreciation of it as a 'state-of-the-art' rendition of the current pop, rock, and folk-rock sounds". The majority of music critics categorize "The Beatles" as postmodern, emphasizing aesthetic and stylistic features of the album. Other scholars situate all Beatles' work within a modernist stance, based either on their "artificiality" or their ideological stance of progress through love and peace. Scapelliti cites it as the source of "the freeform nihilism echoed … in the punk

title: The Beatles (album)

text: condemnation of Lennon's treatment of Cynthia, and of his and Ono's joint projects, particularly "Two Virgins". The British authorities similarly displayed a less tolerant attitude towards the Beatles, when London Drug Squad officers arrested Lennon and Ono in October 1968 for marijuana possession, a charge that he claimed was false. In the case of "Back in the U.S.S.R.", the words were interpreted by Christian evangelist David Noebel as further proof of the Beatles' compliance in a Communist plot to brainwash American youth. Lennon's lyrics on "Revolution 1" were misinterpreted with messages he did not intend. In the album version, he

title: The Beatles (album)

text: group should have released a single album instead. Nonetheless, "The Beatles" reached No. 1 on the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and has since been viewed by some critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. By 1968, the Beatles had achieved commercial and critical success. The group's mid-1967 release, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", was number one in the UK for 27 weeks, through to the start of February 1968, having sold 250,000 copies in the first week after release. "Time" magazine declared that "Sgt. Pepper's" constituted a "historic departure in

title: The Beatles Play The Residents and The Residents Play The Beatles

text: The Beatles Play The Residents and The Residents Play The Beatles "The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" is a 1977 single by the Residents. The A-side, "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life", is an audio collage of recordings by the Beatles and John Lennon, with a looped clip from the Beatles' third Christmas record, in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we've tried." The B-side, "Flying", is a cover of the Beatles song, selected because it (along with "Dig It") is one of

title: The Beatles (album)

text: has said that he was against the idea of a double album at the time and suggested to the group that they reduce the number of songs to form a single album featuring their stronger work, but that the band decided against this. Interviewed for the "Beatles Anthology" television series in the 1990s, Starr said that he now felt that it should have been released as two separate albums (that he nicknamed "The White Album" and "The Whiter Album"). Harrison felt on reflection that some tracks could have been released as B-sides, but "there was a lot of ego in

text: addition to the snippet of dialogue from the Christmas record, the track contains the following songs: The Beatles Play The Residents and The Residents Play The Beatles "The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" is a 1977 single by the Residents. The A-side, "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life", is an audio collage of recordings by the Beatles and John Lennon, with a looped clip from the Beatles' third Christmas record, in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we've tried." The B-side, "Flying", is

title: The Beatles in film

text: have been entirely based on Beatles themes and songs The Beatles in film The Beatles appeared in five motion pictures, most of which were very well received. The exception was the (mostly unscripted) television film "Magical Mystery Tour" which was panned by critics and the public alike. Each of their films had the same name as their associated soundtrack album and a song on that album. The Beatles had a successful film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night (1964), a loosely scripted comic farce, sometimes compared to the Marx Brothers in style. A black-and-white film, it focused on Beatlemania

title: The Beatles

text: semi-professional photos of the Beatles. During the next two years, the Beatles were resident for periods in Hamburg, where they used Preludin both recreationally and to maintain their energy through all-night performances. In 1961, during their second Hamburg engagement, Kirchherr cut Sutcliffe's hair in the "exi" (existentialist) style, later adopted by the other Beatles. When Sutcliffe decided to leave the band early that year and resume his art studies in Germany, McCartney took up the bass. Producer Bert Kaempfert contracted what was now a four-piece group until June 1962, and he used them as Tony Sheridan's backing band on a

title: Meet the Beatles!

text: already releasing their second Beatles album "With the Beatles" and had issued several singles which were not included on any UK albums with the exception of the first two ("Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why" and "Love Me Do"/"PS I Love You"). While the Beatles' first two British albums each contained 14 tracks, in the American market albums were typically limited to 12 tracks and it was expected for albums to include the current hit single. The first three tracks on the album include the December 1963 Capitol single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" along with the record's B-sides both

title: Live at the BBC (Beatles album)

text: under the title "The Beatles at the Beeb", featuring many previously unavailable performances. This was surpassed in 1993 by "The Complete BBC Sessions", a nine-CD box set released by Great Dane in Italy, where copyright protection for the broadcasts had expired; the set contained performances from 44 of the Beatles' 52 BBC appearances, including many complete shows. An official Beatles BBC album was being planned as early as 1982, and it was reported that "EMI was preparing an album" of the BBC material by late 1991. To supplement the archive he had partially rebuilt for "The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes",

title: The Beatles' Story

text: The Beatles' Story The Beatles' Story is the sixth album by the Beatles in the United States, issued on 23 November 1964 by Capitol Records in both mono and stereo formats (although the mono was merely a fold-down of the stereo mix). It is a documentary double album featuring interviews, press conferences, snippets of original or orchestral versions of Beatles songs with voice-overs. The easy listening excerpts were created, produced and arranged by Stu Phillips with the Hollyridge Strings originally recorded for the first Capitol Records' "Beatles Song Book". This documentary album was issued in response to interviews of the

title: Rarities (Beatles compilations)

text: Rarities (Beatles compilations) Rarities is the name of two separate and unrelated compilation albums by the English rock band the Beatles. The first was released in the United Kingdom in December 1978, while the second set was issued in the United States in 1980. Rarities is a British compilation album featuring a selection of songs by The Beatles. The album was originally released as part of "The Beatles Collection", a box set featuring all other Beatles records, but was later released individually. The album has not been released on CD, but all of the tracks are available on the double

title: The Beatles

text: Martin and his son Giles remixed and blended 130 of the band's recordings to create what Martin called "a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period". The show premiered in June 2006, and the "Love" album was released that November. In April 2009, Starr performed three songs with McCartney at a benefit concert held at New York's Radio City Music Hall and organised by McCartney. On 9 September 2009, the Beatles' entire back catalogue was reissued following an extensive digital remastering process that lasted four years. Stereo editions of all twelve original UK studio

title: What Is Life

text: sixth among his "Top Ten Songs by Ex-Beatles", writing: "it's arguable that Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" is the best solo album put out by a Beatle. 'What is Life' … with its riff-driven bounce, soaring harmonies on the choruses, and perfectly placed sax and trumpet, [is] probably Harrison's catchiest pop song." In the 2005 publication "NME Originals: Beatles – The Solo Years 1970–1980", Adrian Thrills rated it first among Harrison's "ten solo gems", adding: "One of Harrison's greatest guitar riffs – brilliant pop." The song is said to be a favourite of Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl. In a

title: The Beatles: The Collection

text: two years or until October 1985. Each album was pressed on black vinyl by the Victor Company of Japan. The album covers were replaced with photographs of tape boxes and log sheet. The original album covers were included in a booklet which also featured a certificate of authenticity as this was a limited edition collection. Missing from this collection were all of the Beatles' singles, extended Play and a few miscellaneous tracks that did not appear on their original UK albums. The Beatles: The Collection The Beatles: The Collection was a vinyl boxed set of every Beatles album remastered at

title: The Early Tapes of the Beatles

text: The Early Tapes of the Beatles The Early Tapes of The Beatles is the first digital repackaging of "The Beatles' First", the 1964 German compilation album of Tony Sheridan and The Beatles recordings. The songs were recorded in Hamburg between 1961 and 1963. Most of the tracks feature vocals by Sheridan. Only tracks 1-5, 7, 10, and 11 actually feature the Beatles, with John Lennon singing lead on "Ain't She Sweet" and featuring "Cry for a Shadow", an instrumental written and performed by the british group alone. The other songs are performed by Sheridan and other musicians, identified as "The

title: Love Songs to the Beatles

text: Love Songs to the Beatles Love Songs to the Beatles is a tribute album dedicated to the Beatles, released in 1965 by Mary Wells on the 20th Century Fox label. The album was a personal tribute to the British rock group by Wells, who was one of the first Motown artists to tour overseas as the group's opening act after her single "My Guy" had gained hit status in the UK. Wells befriended all four members of the group and released it as a labor of love. This was her second and last album for 20th Century Fox. All tracks

title: Live at the BBC (Beatles album)

text: show's title and original broadcast date for each track, with the recording date in parentheses: Disc 1 Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 1 Disc 1 Disc 1 Disc 1 Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 1 Disc 2 Live at the BBC (Beatles album) Live at the BBC is a 1994 compilation album featuring performances by the Beatles that were originally broadcast on various BBC Light Programme radio shows from 1963 to 1965. The mono album, available in multiple formats but most commonly as a two-CD set, consists of 56 songs and 13 tracks of dialogue; 30 of the songs had

title: The Black Album (The Damned album)

text: their "White Album", we had our "Black Album"", said Vanian. "The sleeve isn't related to the Beatles in any way". However, Scabies said: "Of course it was to do with the Beatles, I was so sick about the debates of what we should have on the front of it. I said: 'Put the thing in a plain black sleeve and we'll have a go at the Beatles and "The White Album"'". The live tracks were reissued in their own right, with four extra tracks, as "Live Shepperton 1980". The first subsequent reissue of "The Black Album" on CD reinstated "Curtain

text: It Is" that was given a very limited UK release in 1986 on a mail order cassette promotion that Apple and The Beatles did not authorize and was commercially released in 1988 on "Past Masters"; and the 2000 edit of "Day Tripper" from "1". "Only a Northern Song" was first mixed into stereo and 5.1 surround for the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" album in 1999 and a differently-edited stereo mix of "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" appeared on "Anthology 2" in 1996. "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" is the only track left in The Beatles'

title: The Essential Beatles

text: running slow with a noticeable "warble" and "Long Tall Sally" on this album, has the stereo channels reversed. The album was reissued twice in the 1980s. The first time as part of the "Superstars of the '70s" box set, released by the Australian branch of World Record Club in August 1980. The second being in December 1982, where it was paired with the Barry Miles book "The Beatles In Their Own Words" in a box set titled: "The Beatles Sight & Sound". The album was issued on cassette in 1972, but has never seen a compact disc release (as was

title: The Beatles in film

text: The Beatles in film The Beatles appeared in five motion pictures, most of which were very well received. The exception was the (mostly unscripted) television film "Magical Mystery Tour" which was panned by critics and the public alike. Each of their films had the same name as their associated soundtrack album and a song on that album. The Beatles had a successful film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night (1964), a loosely scripted comic farce, sometimes compared to the Marx Brothers in style. A black-and-white film, it focused on Beatlemania and the band's hectic touring lifestyle and was directed

title: The Beatles (album)

text: weeks on the UK charts, far fewer than the 149 weeks for "Sgt. Pepper". In September 2013 after the British Phonographic Industry changed their sales award rules, the album was declared as having gone platinum, meaning sales of at least 300,000 copies. In the United States, the album achieved huge commercial success. Capitol Records sold over 3.3 million copies of "The Beatles" to stores within the first four days of the album's release. It debuted at number 11 on 14 December 1968, jumped to number 2, and reached number 1 in its third week on 28 December, spending a total

title: The Early Beatles

text: fifteen months from these Beatles tracks, when issued on Capitol, the album sold well, but its highest chart position was only number 43, making it the only original Capitol or United Artists released Beatles album not to reach numbers 1 or 2 in America (with the exception of the Capitol documentary album, "The Beatles' Story," which peaked at number 7). Capitol did little to promote the album since the label merely viewed it as a replacement for the Vee-Jay LP, rather than a "new" Beatles album. "The Early Beatles" was certified Gold ($1 million in sales) on 8 January 1974

title: The Beatles' Story

text: brief stereo excerpt of "Twist and Shout" performed at their 1964 Hollywood Bowl concert. The album was only released on cassette tape in Canada (4XBB 2222) and Japan (ZR44-1019), and was never issued at all on a stereo 8-track cartridge tape. "The Beatles' Story" was being prepared for release on digital audio tape in 1996, but when the format failed commercially the plan was scrapped. In 2014, "The Beatles Story" was made available on CD for the first time in the Beatles boxed set, "The U.S. Albums". The Beatles' Story The Beatles' Story is the sixth album by the Beatles

title: The Beatles (album)

text: of "The Beatles" were released. These sets feature 50 previously unreleased recordings of songs from the album, in addition to the Esher demos recorded at Harrison's house. The four editions are: a three-CD deluxe set, containing the original double album and one CD of Esher demos; a seven-disc super deluxe edition, which adds three CDs of outtakes and a Blu-ray disc; a two-LP edition, comprising the original release; and a four-LP edition, two discs of which contain Esher demos. Following the announcement of these editions in September, a preview containing three versions of "Back in the U.S.S.R." was released on

title: What Goes On (Beatles song)

text: verse before the lead break after Starr sings "tell me why," Lennon can be heard saying "We already told you why!" in reference to the Beatles' "Tell Me Why" from the previous year. During this session the Beatles recorded a long (6:36) instrumental tune called "12-Bar Original" for lack of a better name. "12-Bar Original" was not included on "Rubber Soul", and was not commercially available until 1996 when an edited version of take 2 of this song was included on the "Anthology 2" album. Richie Unterberger, in AllMusic, says the song is an enjoyable, but lightweight, country & western-flavoured

title: The Beatles at The Cavern Club

text: Beatles, before their initial residency in Hamburg. The Beatles' history with the Cavern Club is also explored in two recent documentary films: "I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern" (2011), directed by John Piper; and "Good Ol' Freda" (2013), directed by Ryan White. (See note below in "Epstein".) The Beatles' name was first noticed by Epstein in the first issue of Bill Harry's "Mersey Beat" magazine (which Epstein successfully sold in his NEMS music store), on numerous posters around Liverpool, and on the front page of the second issue of "Mersey Beat". before asking journalist Harry who they

title: The Beatles: The Authorised Biography

text: the "wholesale censorship" of the manuscript, particularly with regard to the band's drug taking. According to Davies, however, the Beatles made relatively few demands. He says it was his own decision to leave out any mention of the band's exploits with groupies during their touring years. He says that this was out of consideration for the band members' partners,<ref name="Davies/Guardian"></ref> and because: "Most people over the age of 25 in the 1960s were aware of what happened between rock stars and groupies. I felt no need to go into it."<ref name="Davies/NewStatesman"></ref> Since the Beatles had become fascinated by meditation, and

title: The Early Tapes of the Beatles

text: Beat Brothers". This CD, which was released in 1984, includes two additionnal tracks and an extended version of "Ya Ya" and was reissued in 2004 with a different design on Universal Music's Spectrum label. All vocals by Tony Sheridan unless otherwise indicated. The Early Tapes of the Beatles The Early Tapes of The Beatles is the first digital repackaging of "The Beatles' First", the 1964 German compilation album of Tony Sheridan and The Beatles recordings. The songs were recorded in Hamburg between 1961 and 1963. Most of the tracks feature vocals by Sheridan. Only tracks 1-5, 7, 10, and 11

title: Is This What You Want?

text: Chris Farlowe and Paul Rodgers." All songs by Jackie Lomax, except where noted. Side one Side two Tracks 1–12 as per original UK release, with the following bonus tracks: Tracks 1–12 as per original UK release, with the following bonus tracks: Digital downloads Is This What You Want? Is This What You Want? is the debut album by English rock and soul singer Jackie Lomax, released in 1969 on the Beatles' Apple record label. It is notable for the involvement of three Beatles: It was produced by George Harrison and features contributions from Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The