query: What was the Beatles' first number one hit?

title: The Beatles

text: eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United Kingdom through to 1970 reached number one. The band's third single, "From Me to You", came out in April and was also a chart-topping hit, starting an almost unbroken string of seventeen British number-one singles for the Beatles, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years. Issued in August, the band's fourth single, "She Loves You", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks. It became their first

title: Introducing... The Beatles

text: inspired a host of other Vee-Jay releases. First came the album "Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage" issued on 26 February, containing the Beatles tracks "Please Please Me", "From Me to You", "Ask Me Why" and "Thank You Girl" from the 1963 singles and "Introducing...", and other tracks from Frank Ifield. The rereleased single "Please Please Me" rose to number three on the "Hot 100", "Cash Box" and "Record World". Soon after, "Twist and Shout" was released 2 March on the subsidiary Tollie label with "There's a Place" as the B-side, and "Do

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: 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: 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: Why" and "Please Please Me", though some pressings of the album did not alter the track list. The new versions were prepared in late January and began appearing in stores around 10 February 1964. Because of the initial restraining order, version two of "Introducing... The Beatles" did not enter the "Billboard" charts until three weeks after Capitol's "Meet the Beatles!" album. Once it did, it quickly rose to the number two spot, where it stayed for nine straight weeks. It also peaked at number two in "Cash Box", and it got to number one in "Record World" magazine. This success

title: British Hit Singles & Albums

text: the "Record Retailer" chart was little known until it was adopted by the BBC in 1969 and that by adopting this chart as its standard, the editors had a non-consensual view. An example often given is the case of The Beatles' second single "Please Please Me" which was recognised as a number one hit by every other publicly available chart of the time, but not by "Record Retailer" and therefore not by "British Hit Singles". Other records to which this applies include "19th Nervous Breakdown" by The Rolling Stones, "Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk and the Eurovision Song

title: The Beatles' North American releases

text: rights to another EMI artist, Frank Ifield. The first Beatles single released by Vee-Jay was "Please Please Me" in February 1963. Art Roberts, music director of popular Chicago radio station WLS, placed "Please Please Me" into radio rotation in late February, arguably the first time a Beatles record was heard on American radio. Radio personality Dick Biondi was the first to play the record on his show. "Please Please Me" reached number 35 on WLS's weekly survey but failed to chart nationally. Vee-Jay released "From Me to You" in May 1963 which reached number 33 at radio station KRLA in

title: What Goes On (Beatles song)

text: was to the song, Starr jokingly stated, "About five words, and I haven't done a thing since." To his chagrin, the first pressing of the single accidentally omitted "Starkey" in the song-writing credit. An early version was considered as a follow-up to "Please Please Me", and the Beatles hoped to record it on 5 March 1963, but there was only time for the other songs recorded that night: "From Me to You", "Thank You Girl", and an early version of "One After 909". The "Rubber Soul" version was recorded in one take, with overdubs, on 4 November 1965. In the

title: The Beatles

text: album was supplemented by the four tracks already released on their first two singles. Martin originally considered recording the Beatles' debut LP live at The Cavern Club, but after deciding that the building's acoustics were inadequate, he elected to simulate a "live" album with minimal production in "a single marathon session at Abbey Road". After the moderate success of "Love Me Do", the single "Please Please Me" met with a more emphatic reception. Released in January 1963, two months ahead of the album of the same name, the song reached number one on every UK chart except "Record Retailer", where

title: With the Beatles

text: LP and cassette on 21 July 1987. Along with the rest of the Beatles' canon, it was re-released on CD in newly re-mastered stereo and mono versions on 9 September 2009. The album was ranked number 420 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and was included in Robert Dimery's "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Unlike "Please Please Me", whose tracks not previously issued on singles (10 of the 14) were recorded in one day (11 February 1963), "With the Beatles" was recorded over seven sessions across three months,

title: 20 Greatest Hits (Beatles album)

text: UK, such as "Eight Days a Week" and "Yesterday"). The UK version of the album comprised all 19 tracks from the 17 Beatles singles to top the UK Singles Chart (including both sides of the double A-sides "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" and "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby") plus the Beatles' first chart hit "Love Me Do", which peaked at number 17 in the UK. The versions of "Love Me Do" and "She Loves You" on the album were produced in "simulated stereo", leaving "From Me to You" as the only mono track on the compilation. Although many documentaries state that

title: The Beatles' First

text: 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' First" was released in 1964 by German Polydor and was available in the UK as an import. On 4 August 1967, Polydor officially released the album in the UK, but with a different sleeve and catalogue number (236-201). In the US, the album was released under the title "In the Beginning (Circa 1960)" in 1970 (Polydor

title: What Was I Thinkin'

text: What Was I Thinkin' "What Was I Thinkin'" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Dierks Bentley. It was released in April 2003 as his debut single and the first from his 2003 self-titled debut album. The song also became his first number one hit on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart in September 2003. Bentley co-wrote "What Was I Thinkin'" with his record producer, Brett Beavers, and Deric Ruttan. The song is an up-tempo in which he recalls escaping one night with a "beauty from south Alabama," named Becky while the narrator spends the

title: Beatles for Sale

text: Hey!", "Eight Days a Week" (a number one hit single in the US in early 1965), "What You're Doing", "Words of Love", "Every Little Thing" and "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party". In turn, it added the track "I'll Be Back" from the British release of "A Hard Day's Night" and the single "I Feel Fine"/"She's a Woman". The six omitted tracks finally got an LP release in America on "Beatles VI" in 1965. "Beatles '65" was released eleven days after "Beatles for Sale" and became the fastest-selling album of the year in the United States. The cover of

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: The Beatles' Million Sellers

text: for 4 weeks in early 1966. All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney. "Side one" "Side two" The Beatles' Million Sellers The Beatles' Million Sellers was an EP by the Beatles, released on 6 December 1965. The EP was only issued in mono, with the catalogue number Parlophone GEP 8946. It was also released in New Zealand. The EP consists of songs that had sold over 1 million copies each as singles, the highest being "She Loves You", which sold 1.89 million copies. All four tracks had previously been number 1 hit singles in the UK chart. Apart from "Can't

title: 4 by the Beatles

text: performer's current hit single". Accordingly, the series name is a reference to the limited success of that first EP by the Beatles that Capitol had released: "Four by the Beatles". Although initially intended to appear as a single by releasing the "4-By" in a soft sleeve and thus "distinguish the '4-By' product from EP's", "4 by the Beatles" was packaged in a cardboard sleeve, similar to regular EP releases. "Billboard" did not chart the record as a single either, but as an EP; on the Hot 100, it peaked at number 68, which was also the highest position it achieved

title: The Beatles

text: Taped copies of the song soon circulated among other radio stations throughout the US. This caused an increase in demand, leading Capitol to bring forward the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by three weeks. Issued on 26 December, with the band's previously scheduled debut there just weeks away, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold a million copies, becoming a number-one hit in the US by mid-January. In its wake, Vee-Jay released "Introducing... The Beatles" to go along with Capitol's debut album, "Meet the Beatles!", while Swan reactivated production of "She Loves You". On 7 February 1964,

title: The Beatles' Million Sellers

text: The Beatles' Million Sellers The Beatles' Million Sellers was an EP by the Beatles, released on 6 December 1965. The EP was only issued in mono, with the catalogue number Parlophone GEP 8946. It was also released in New Zealand. The EP consists of songs that had sold over 1 million copies each as singles, the highest being "She Loves You", which sold 1.89 million copies. All four tracks had previously been number 1 hit singles in the UK chart. Apart from "Can't Buy Me Love", the songs had not appeared on any previous Beatles album. The EP effectively served

title: The Beatles bootleg recordings

text: 18 songs from a Beatles show in mid-1962 at the Cavern Club, recorded from the audience. The tape includes several cover versions of songs not available elsewhere by the Beatles, including the Bruce Channel number one "Hey! Baby", James Ray's "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody", and the Bobby Vee hit "Sharing You". McCartney bought the tape at a 1985 auction, and since none of it was used for "Anthology", it has been assumed to be of poor sound quality. Many demo recordings are known to have been made by the individual Beatles but have yet to become

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: One Hit (To the Body)

text: the song, called the "London Mix" (clocking at 7:00), was done by Steve Lillywhite and then released on the 12" single. One Hit (To the Body) "One Hit (To the Body)" is the opening track to English rock band The Rolling Stones' 1986 album "Dirty Work". The first Rolling Stones single to feature a Ron Wood co-writing credit with Jagger and Richards, it charted in the USA, Netherlands and Australia. Reaching number 80 in the UK, it was their poorest charting single at the time. Credited to lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards and guitarist Ron Wood, "One Hit

title: One Hit (To the Body)

text: One Hit (To the Body) "One Hit (To the Body)" is the opening track to English rock band The Rolling Stones' 1986 album "Dirty Work". The first Rolling Stones single to feature a Ron Wood co-writing credit with Jagger and Richards, it charted in the USA, Netherlands and Australia. Reaching number 80 in the UK, it was their poorest charting single at the time. Credited to lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards and guitarist Ron Wood, "One Hit (To the Body)" was largely the work of Richards and Wood. Both guitarists contributed heavily to "Dirty Work" overall, with Wood

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: 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: The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

text: The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit is a 1990 re-edited version of renowned documentary filmmaking team Albert and David Maysles' 1964 16mm documentary "What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.", about the Beatles' first visit to America in February 1964. It documents the Beatles' US trip as they travel to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami Beach. Footage of the Beatles (often acting irreverently in front of the camera) in hotel rooms makes up the majority of the non-musical portion of the film. The main difference between the original 1964 documentary and the

title: What Goes On (Beatles song)

text: Paul McCartney was recorded in 1963, but the song was not used until 1965 as Ringo Starr's vocal piece for "Rubber Soul". According to Lennon, "it was resurrected with a middle eight thrown in, probably with Paul's help" for "Rubber Soul". Barry Miles also claimed that McCartney and Starr combined for the middle eight. There is no formal middle eight in the song, though one chorus and one verse are extended; Ian MacDonald believes those longer sections were written by McCartney. Starr contributed to the lyrics, his first-ever composing credit on a Beatles song. However, when asked what his contribution

title: The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

text: birthday. In addition to the live performances, there are also studio Beatles recordings heard on the program's soundtrack. Among them are "She Loves You", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Love Me Do", "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "It Won't Be Long". Other recordings featured are "Navy Blue" by Diane Renay and "Pride and Joy" by Marvin Gaye. The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit is a 1990 re-edited version of renowned documentary filmmaking team Albert and David Maysles' 1964 16mm documentary "What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.", about the Beatles' first visit

title: The Beatles: The Biography

text: review The book received generally favorable reviews, however some journalists and fans of the band noticed a number of factual errors in Spitz's biography. Spitz has general been bitter towards his critics. When one of the editors for "Daytrippin′", a Beatles fan zine, mailed the author a short list of incorrect facts in his book, Spitz replied: "You need an enema. Really! Do something useful with your life." The Beatles: The Biography The Beatles: The Biography is the name of a 2005 biography of the 1960s rock band The Beatles written by Bob Spitz. It was first published by Little,

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: With the Beatles

text: years. The album became the first Beatles album released in North America when it was released in Canada on 25 November under the augmented title Beatlemania! With the Beatles, with additional text on the album cover, and issued only in mono at the time, catalogue number T 6051 (a stereo Canadian release would come in 1968, catalogue number ST 6051). "With the Beatles" was unevenly "split" over the group's first two Capitol albums in the United States; nine tracks were issued on "Meet the Beatles!" (the eight original compositions plus "Till There Was You"), and the remaining five, all "covers",

title: The Beatles

text: the Beatles have four Multi-Platinum albums, four Platinum albums, eight Gold albums and one Silver album. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. The best-selling band in history, the Beatles have sold more than 800 million physical and digital albums . They have had more number-one albums on the UK charts, fifteen, and sold more singles in the UK, 21.9 million, than any other act. In 2004, "Rolling Stone" ranked the Beatles as the best artist of all time. They ranked number one on "Billboard" magazine's list of the all-time most successful Hot 100

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: Love Songs to the Beatles

text: composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Arranged and conducted by Joe Mazzu Jack Lonshein - cover design 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

title: Now That's What I Call Music!

text: number one on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart, more than any individual recording artist except the Beatles. However, recent releases have not sold as well with "Now! 34" selling only 88,000 copies in its first week, compared to the 621,000 copies "Now! 7" sold in its debut week in July 2001. Recent trends in the United States have been releases of "special edition" "Now!" albums, such as "Now Esto Es Musica! Latino", "Now That's What I Call Country", and "Now That's What I Call Motown"; and the inclusion of "bonus tracks" by not-yet-established artists at the expense of additional hit

title: The Beatles (album)

text: record the same backing track repetitively, and pinpoints this session as a key indication that the Beatles were going to break up. McCartney attempted to remake the backing track for a third time, but this was abandoned after a few takes and the second version was used as the final mix. The group, save for McCartney, had lost interest in the track by the end of recording, and refused to release it as a single. Marmalade recorded a version that became a number one hit. McCartney recorded "Wild Honey Pie" on 20 August at the end of the session for

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: What You're Doing

text: Car" and "The Word", on the band's 2006 remix album "Love". "What You're Doing" shares a number of characteristics with (the also predominantly McCartney-written) "Drive My Car", particularly the home key (D major), meter (4/4), and chord progression (alternating between B minor and G major). According to Ian MacDonald: What You're Doing "What You're Doing" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their album "Beatles for Sale", released in December 1964. It was written by Paul McCartney, although credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song was one of eight original compositions on "Beatles for Sale". In North America,

title: The Beatles' First

text: 24-4504). In New Zealand, the album was released three times: firstly in 1966 (cat. no. 237632, as above), secondly in the early 1970s, titled "The Beatles in Hamburg" (cat. no. NZ SP 125). The track "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby" was retitled "If You Love Me, Baby", and in 1977 was released as a double LP (cat. no. 118) All subsequent releases of the Tony Sheridan/Beatles/Beat Brothers recordings are repackages of the same tracks. This title is available in an expanded double-CD set subtitled "Deluxe Edition", with bonus tracks, which was issued by Universal Music on 12 June

title: Black Beatles

text: it is," he praised the duo for the group's tribute to the Beatles and their ability to subvert expectations of the status quo. "Rolling Stone"s editor Rob Sheffield ranked "Black Beatles" at number ten in his year-end list: "Pitchfork" would later list "Black Beatles" on their ranking of the 100 best songs of 2016 at number 10. Meanwhile, "Billboard" named "Black Beatles" the best pop song of 2016. In the annual "Village Voice"'s Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2016, "Black Beatles" was ranked at number 4. "Black Beatles" peaked at number one

title: We Love You Beatles

text: order) along with reasons why the group loves that particular Beatle. It also includes at least three different vocal and instrumental quotations from the Beatles' 1963 hit song "She Loves You", suggesting the fact that "We Love You Beatles" was a reply to it. We Love You Beatles "We Love You Beatles" is a song by the Carefrees. It was a 1964 novelty record about The Beatles and the song peaked at number 39 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It was released in the UK on the Oriole label #CB1916 and in the USA on the London International label #10614.

title: Beatles for Sale

text: the Australian release of the LP featured individual photographs of the Beatles taken at one of the group's Sydney concerts in June 1964. On 26 February 1987, "Beatles for Sale" was officially released on compact disc (catalogue number CDP 7 46438 2), as were the band's first three albums. The following month, "Beatles for Sale" re-entered the UK albums charts, peaking at number 45. Having been available previously only as an import in the US, the album was also issued on LP and cassette there on 21 July 1987. Even though "Beatles for Sale" was recorded on four-track tape, the

title: Real Love (Beatles song)

text: "". "Real Love" was subsequently reworked by the three surviving former members of the Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) in early 1995, an approach also used for another incomplete Lennon track, "Free as a Bird". "Real Love" was released as a Beatles single in 1996 in the United Kingdom, United States and many other countries; it was the opening track on the Beatles' "Anthology 2" album. It is their last single by the group to become a top 40 hit in the US. The song reached number 4 and number 11, respectively, in the UK and US

title: The Beatles Box Set

text: released on 9 September 2009 along with "The Beatles in Mono" and new stereo reissues of the individual albums, including the first four albums given their stereo debuts on CD. The Beatles Box Set The Beatles Box Set is a sixteen-disc box set compiling the entire recorded works of the Beatles as issued by the band between 1962 and 1970. It was released on 15 November 1988 in Britain and America, with the same catalogue number (Apple BBX2-91302) in each of those countries. While available also in vinyl LP and cassette formats, the box set was the first complete collection

title: Tell Me What You See

text: Tell Me What You See "Tell Me What You See" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that first appeared in 1965 on their album "Help!" in the United Kingdom and on "Beatles VI" in the United States. As with all Beatles compositions by either of the two, the song is credited to Lennon–McCartney. Regarding the song's authorship, Paul McCartney said, "I seem to remember it as mine. I would claim it as a 60-40 but it might have been totally me." John Lennon said, in his interviews with "Playboy" (1980) and "Hit Parader" (1972), that "Tell

title: Bigger Than the Beatles

text: Bigger Than the Beatles "Bigger Than The Beatles" is a song written by Jeb Stuart Anderson and Steve Dukes, and recorded by American country music artist Joe Diffie. It was released in November 1995 as the lead single from the album, "Life's So Funny". The song reached Number One on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, becoming the fifth and final Number One single of Diffie's career. It also reached number-one on the Canadian "RPM" Country Tracks chart. The song talks about an amateur rocker and his cocktail waitress girlfriend. The narrator talks

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 Box Set

text: The Beatles Box Set The Beatles Box Set is a sixteen-disc box set compiling the entire recorded works of the Beatles as issued by the band between 1962 and 1970. It was released on 15 November 1988 in Britain and America, with the same catalogue number (Apple BBX2-91302) in each of those countries. While available also in vinyl LP and cassette formats, the box set was the first complete collection of original Beatles material to be released by EMI and Capitol Records on compact disc. "The Beatles Box Set" included all of the original UK album releases by the band,

title: 4 by the Beatles

text: on the "Cash Box" chart. Capitol deleted "4 by the Beatles" from its catalogue on 31 December 1965. 4 by the Beatles 4 by the Beatles was the third of three EPs released in United States, but second of two Beatles EPs released by Capitol Records (catalogue number R-5365) in the US. Although the Beatles' first EP released by Capitol did not succeed as much as the label would have hoped, it did well on the singles chart, which enabled Capitol to create a new series called the "4-By" series, which acted like a "super single". The idea was to

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 Story

text: also recognised as one of the best tourist attractions of the United Kingdom in 2015. The exhibition was preceded by the Cavern Mecca (1981-1984) and Beatles City (1984-1986). The Beatles Story The Beatles Story is a museum in Liverpool about the Beatles and their history. It is located on the historical Albert Dock. The Beatles Story was opened on 1 May 1990. The Beatles Story contains recreations of The Casbah Coffee Club, The Cavern Club and Abbey Road Studios among other historical Beatles items, such as John Lennon's spectacles, George Harrison's first guitar and a detailed history about the British

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: Something (Beatles song)

text: "100 Greatest Beatles Songs" list. Four years before this, "Mojo" placed it 7th in a similar list of the Beatles' best songs.<ref name="Mojo/101 Greatest"></ref> Among the song's many cover versions, Welsh singer Shirley Bassey recorded a successful version of "Something". It was released in 1970 as the title track to her album of the same name.<ref name="Bassey/AM"></ref> Also issued as a single, it became Bassey's first top-ten hit in the UK since "I (Who Have Nothing)" in 1963, peaking at number 4 and spending 22 weeks on the chart. The single also reached the top twenty in other European countries

title: What Cha' Gonna Do for Me

text: What Cha' Gonna Do for Me What Cha' Gonna Do for Me is the Gold certified third solo album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on the Warner Bros. Records label in 1981. Three singles were released from "What Cha' Gonna Do": the Beatles cover "We Can Work It Out" (US R&B #34), the McCrarys cover "Any Old Sunday" (#68) and the album's title track which became a number one hit on "Billboard" R&B Singles chart. On Billboard's charts, the album reached #3 on Black Albums, #33 on Jazz Albums, and #17 on Pop Albums. This would be Chaka's

title: Meet the Beatles!

text: release, Liberty Music Shops advertised in the "New York Times" of 12 January 1964 that "Meet the Beatles!" was available for purchase, an ad not authorised by Capitol. In 2003, "Meet the Beatles!" was ranked number 59 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2004, the album was released for the first time on compact disc in both stereo and mono as part of "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1" box set, containing the original US stereo and mono mixes. In 2014, "Meet the Beatles!" was issued on CD again, individually and included 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: 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: 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: Number One (magazine)

text: dog who answered the letters). At the end of each year, the magazine would run a reader's poll of the top pop acts of the year. These would include "best group", "best single" and "most fanciable pop star" among others. "Number One" was the first magazine to champion pop group Take That and featured them many times on the cover in 1991 before they became famous. Ultimately, the magazine didn't survive to see the group achieve their first top 10 hit. Unlike "Smash Hits", "Number One" made no secret of the fact the two were in direct competition and would

title: The Number One Song in Heaven

text: by Tony Visconti. This version peaked at number 70 in the UK, but was slightly more successful on the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart where it became a top 30 hit. The song was featured in the closing credits of the 2013 film "". Original release (1979) 1997 rerecording The Number One Song in Heaven "The Number One Song in Heaven" is a disco song by the American rock duo Sparks. Released as a single in 1979, the song was produced and co-written by electro-disco producer Giorgio Moroder. It became a top 20 hit in the UK, where it peaked at

title: The Beatles Concerto

text: re-recorded it for "Universal" in 2003, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Rutter." John Rutter wrote: ""The Beatles Concerto" (1977) still makes me smile. My old friends Peter Rostal and Paul Schaefer offered me what must be the most unlikely challenge of my composing career when they asked if I could create a grand romantic-style concerto for two pianos and orchestra from Beatles songs. As a Beatles fan, I accepted the challenge, but gratefully made use of three of Peter and Paul’s own two-piano arrangements: these appear in the first movement, where the piano parts in the sections

title: 4 by the Beatles

text: 4 by the Beatles 4 by the Beatles was the third of three EPs released in United States, but second of two Beatles EPs released by Capitol Records (catalogue number R-5365) in the US. Although the Beatles' first EP released by Capitol did not succeed as much as the label would have hoped, it did well on the singles chart, which enabled Capitol to create a new series called the "4-By" series, which acted like a "super single". The idea was to market a set of four songs to "complement the artist's singles and albums and not compete with the

title: Jolly What!

text: this album Jolly What! Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage is a 1964 compilation album, released by Vee-Jay Records and featuring tracks by English rock band The Beatles and by the Australian-English easy listening and country singer Frank Ifield. Ifield toured the UK in 1963. While Vee-Jay Records temporarily had the US rights to a number of The Beatles' recordings, they released "Jolly What!" on 26 February 1964. The LP consisted of four studio Beatles songs (all previously released on Vee Jay singles), plus eight recordings of Ifield. The original pressing has a

title: Jolly What!

text: Jolly What! Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage is a 1964 compilation album, released by Vee-Jay Records and featuring tracks by English rock band The Beatles and by the Australian-English easy listening and country singer Frank Ifield. Ifield toured the UK in 1963. While Vee-Jay Records temporarily had the US rights to a number of The Beatles' recordings, they released "Jolly What!" on 26 February 1964. The LP consisted of four studio Beatles songs (all previously released on Vee Jay singles), plus eight recordings of Ifield. The original pressing has a drawing of

title: Number One Fan (band)

text: and The Juliana Theory. They were also part of the Vans Warped Tour in 2004. Their influences include The Beach Boys, The Beatles, U2 and The Counting Crows, whose song, "Holiday In Spain" was covered by the band for "Dead and Dreaming", a tribute compilation album. Number One Fan (band) Number One Fan was a rock band based in Appleton, Wisconsin signed to the Pat's Record Company label. The band was formed in 2000 in Appleton, Wisconsin, while all of the members were still in high school. The original lineup of the band consisted of vocalist and guitarist Nicholas Ziemann,

title: The Beatles

text: series of recordings for Polydor Records. As part of the sessions, the Beatles were signed to Polydor for one year. Credited to "Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers", the single "My Bonnie", recorded in June 1961 and released four months later, reached number 32 on the "Musikmarkt" chart. After the Beatles completed their second Hamburg residency, they enjoyed increasing popularity in Liverpool with the growing Merseybeat movement. However, they were also growing tired of the monotony of numerous appearances at the same clubs night after night. In November 1961, during one of the group's frequent performances at The Cavern Club,

title: Beatles VI

text: Beatles VI Beatles VI is the Beatles' seventh Capitol Records release in the United States and Canada (including "The Beatles' Story"). It was the ninth album released into that market in less than one and a half years (Vee-Jay Records and United Artists Records also released one album each during that period). The LP was released in both mono and stereo versions. "Beatles VI" reached number one in Billboard for six weeks, beginning on 10 July 1965. This LP was also released in New Zealand in stereo in time for Christmas 1966. The pressing plates were obtained from EMI (UK)

title: The Beatles

text: three two-CD/three-LP box sets featuring artwork by Klaus Voormann. The two songs based on Lennon demos, "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", were issued as new Beatles singles. The releases were commercially successful and the television series was viewed by an estimated 400 million people. In 1999, to coincide with the re-release of the 1968 film "Yellow Submarine", an expanded soundtrack album, "Yellow Submarine Songtrack", was issued. The Beatles' "1", a compilation album of the band's British and American number-one hits, was released on 13 November 2000. It became the fastest-selling album of all time, with 3.6 million sold

title: 1 (Beatles album)

text: in over 35 countries, achieving the record for the album debuting at the top of the most national charts ever. It became the highest-selling of 2000 and, some time later, of the entire decade. This achievement made the Beatles the first and only artist to have the best-selling albums of two different decades. They also had the best-selling album of the 1960s, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". No tracks from "Sgt. Pepper" appear on this album. With this album, the Beatles also achieved having an album hit the number 1 position in the US in four non-consecutive decades (1960s,

title: The Beatles' Decca audition

text: The Beatles' Decca audition On 1 January 1962, before they reached international stardom, the Beatles auditioned for Decca Records at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, north London. In what is considered one of the biggest mistakes in music industry history, Decca rejected the band, selecting instead Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. After being available only on "bootleg" recordings, some of the songs recorded for the audition were officially released on the Beatles rarities compilation "Anthology 1" in 1995. Manager Brian Epstein made numerous trips to London to visit record companies with the hope of securing a record contract but was

title: The Compleat Beatles

text: The Compleat Beatles The Compleat Beatles, released in 1982, is a two-hour documentary chronicling the career of the Beatles. Although it has since been supplanted by the longer and more in-depth documentary "Beatles Anthology", "The Compleat Beatles" was for many years largely regarded as the definitive film about the Beatles. The word "" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the intentional misspelling of "Beetles" and a reference to the famous book on fishing, "The Compleat Angler". Narrated by actor Malcolm McDowell, it includes extensive interviews with a number of sources close to the Beatles. Some of the people interviewed are producer

title: The Beatles (album)

text: A snippet of a track known as "Can You Take Me Back?" was put between "Cry Baby Cry" and "Revolution 9", while recordings of Cilla Black's hit "Step Inside Love" and a joke number, "Los Paranoias", were released on "Anthology 3". "Julia" was the last track to be recorded for the album and features Lennon on solo acoustic guitar which he played in a style similar to McCartney's on "Blackbird". This is the only Beatles song on which Lennon performs alone and it was a tribute to his mother Julia Lennon, who was killed in 1958 in a road accident

title: The Beatles

text: they encountered Brian Epstein, a local record-store owner and music columnist. He later recalled: "I immediately liked what I heard. They were fresh, and they were honest, and they had what I thought was a sort of presence ... [a] star quality." Epstein courted the band over the next couple of months, and they appointed him as their manager in January 1962. Throughout early and mid-1962, Epstein sought to free the Beatles from their contractual obligations to Bert Kaempfert Productions. He eventually negotiated a one-month-early release from their contract in exchange for one last recording session in Hamburg. Tragedy greeted

title: Cultural impact of the Beatles

text: between these two groups during the "Pet Sounds" era remains one of the most noteworthy episodes in rock history. With the rise of the Beatles in 1963, the terms Mersey sound and Merseybeat were applied to bands and singers from Liverpool. This was the first time in British pop music that a sound and a location were linked together. The origins of power pop date back to the early to mid 1960s with what AllMusic calls: "a cross between the crunching hard rock of the Who and the sweet melodicism of the Beatles and the Beach Boys, with the ringing

title: How the Web Was Woven

text: Believin'", a single released in November 1971 in markets outside the United States. The single peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart and was also a top-ten hit in Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa. How the Web Was Woven "How the Web Was Woven" is a song written by English songwriters Clive Westlake and David Most. It was first recorded by rock and soul singer Jackie Lomax and released in February 1970 as his final single on the Beatles' Apple record label. George Harrison produced the recording, which also features contributions from American musician Leon Russell. The

title: One Hit (To the Body)

text: between him and Wood after Page's request to hear what the band was working on. Drummer Charlie Watts provides the song's driving beat as well as its notable cymbal opening, while Bill Wyman plays bass. Backing vocals on the song were provided by Richards, Wood, Bobby Womack, Patti Scialfa, Don Covay, and producer Steve Lillywhite's wife Kirsty MacColl. Recording and re-recording lasted throughout much of 1985. Two locations used were the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris and New York City's RPM Studios. "One Hit (To the Body)" was released as "Dirty Work"'s second single on 16 May in the United

title: The Beatles

text: three years in what was termed the British Invasion. The Beatles' success in the US opened the door for a successive string of British beat groups and pop acts such as the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, Petula Clark, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones to achieve success in America. During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held twelve positions on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart, including the top five. Capitol Records' lack of interest throughout 1963 did not go unnoticed, and a competitor, United Artists Records, encouraged their film division to offer the Beatles a three-motion-picture

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: What About Today?

text: What About Today? What About Today? is an album released in July 1969 by Barbra Streisand. It is considered to be her first attempt at recording contemporary pop songs and was received poorly, peaking at number 31 on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart. It is one of only three studio albums by Streisand (the others being 1973's "Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments" and 2011's "What Matters Most") not to have received an RIAA sales certification in the United States. The album features songs originally recorded by The Beatles and Paul Simon among others. The cover photograph was an outtake from

title: What You're Doing

text: What You're Doing "What You're Doing" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their album "Beatles for Sale", released in December 1964. It was written by Paul McCartney, although credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song was one of eight original compositions on "Beatles for Sale". In North America, where Capitol Records typically altered the content of the band's albums, "What You're Doing" instead appeared on the 1965 US release "Beatles VI". Throughout the song, McCartney adds to the rhyme scheme by combining a single, two-syllable word with two one-syllable words (i.e. "Look what you're "doing", I'm feeling

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: 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: I Hit It First

text: I Hit It First "I Hit It First" is a song by American singer Ray J. It features vocals from rapper Bobby Brackins and was produced by record producer Nic Nac, who helped to write the song with Ray J and Brackins. The song is a reference to Ray J's past relationship with American reality star Kim Kardashian. In spite of Ray J's remonstrations as to who or what exactly the song is about, there are numerous allusions to his stint with his former girlfriend and bragging about it in his song openly. The cover art for the single features

title: Introducing... The Beatles

text: stereo copies. Because only 3.1 percent of all of the LPs were in stereo, true stereo copies are rare. After the settlement, the Beechwood songs were issued by Vee-Jay as a single, on 27 April on Tollie. "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You" rose to become the Beatles' fourth number one single on "Billboard" and their fifth on both "Cash Box" and "Record World". Twice before its license expired, Vee-Jay repackaged "Introducing... The Beatles". Although neither album contained any new music, both of them made the "Billboard" album charts. One of these was "Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous

title: Hit the Road Jack

text: Hit the Road Jack "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues artist Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an "a cappella" demo sent to Art Rupe. It became famous after it was recorded by the singer-songwriter-pianist Ray Charles with The Raelettes vocalist Margie Hendrix. Charles's recording hit number one for two weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100, beginning on Monday, October 9, 1961. "Hit the Road Jack" won a Grammy award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording. The song was number one on the R&B Sides chart for five weeks, thereby becoming

title: The Beatles' Decca audition

text: the past forty years is known to be in the hands of a private collector. The Beatles' Decca audition On 1 January 1962, before they reached international stardom, the Beatles auditioned for Decca Records at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, north London. In what is considered one of the biggest mistakes in music industry history, Decca rejected the band, selecting instead Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. After being available only on "bootleg" recordings, some of the songs recorded for the audition were officially released on the Beatles rarities compilation "Anthology 1" in 1995. Manager Brian Epstein made numerous trips to

title: The Beatles in India

text: 1968, the allegations concerning Farrow were rumoured to be the cause of the Beatles' split with the Maharishi. Brown wrote in "The Love You Make", first published in 1983, that his book told for the first time "what really happened in the ashram", challenging the "widely circulated" but incorrect story about Farrow. Reflecting in a 1980 interview, Lennon said he had been "bitter" after discovering that the Maharishi was "human", just as he was later about Janov for the same reason. Writing for "Mojo" magazine in 2003, author and journalist Mark Paytress said that, for many observers, the Beatles' falling

title: The Beatles

text: It Be" album, with McCartney supervising production, was released. One of the main differences from the Spector-produced version was the omission of the original string arrangements. It was a top ten hit in both Britain and America. The US album configurations from 1964 to 1965 were released as box sets in 2004 and 2006; "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1" and "Volume 2" included both stereo and mono versions based on the mixes that were prepared for vinyl at the time of the music's original American release. As a soundtrack for Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles stage revue, "Love", George

title: Cultural impact of the Beatles

text: the Beatles and the entire British Invasion came in, we were all ready to say, ‘Look, it’s been nice, there’s no more room for us… It’s now the self-contained group- males, certain type of material. What do we do?" "Rolling Stone" editors elaborated: "One of the first rock groups to write most of its own material, they inaugurated the era of self-contained bands and forever centralized pop ... Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionist studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop." In response to the Beatles'

title: All for the Beatles

text: for the Beatles" charted. Alyn Shipton writes that the song "in itself [was] not particularly remarkable, but it [was] a harbinger for Nilsson's subsequent love of all things Beatles". The single and the film it was released with have become collectible items, for which prices of more than US$200 were paid in 2006. Shipton wrote that it was ironic that "All for the Beatles" approached Beatlemania by adapting a Rolling Stones hit. "Borrowing unashamedly from it was calculated to put everyone who heard it in mind of the 'British Invasion'." Nilsson sang "in an Americanized approximation of John Lennon," but

title: One Hit Wonder (band)

text: played guitar. On October 6th, 2016 One Hit Wonder played in Long Beach with The Cadillac Tramps One Hit Wonder (band) One Hit Wonder was a Californian punk band that made its debut in 1994. Front man Dan Root is credited as playing guitar for Tender Fury,Rik L Rik,Cathedral of Tears Keith Morris Buglamp,Adolescents,CJ Ramone,The Vandals appearing in the 1987 movie "Dudes". Randy Bradbury played bass on the first two One Hit Wonder albums, before leaving to join the widely successful skate punk band Pennywise. Chris Webb previously played drums for the alternative rock band No Doubt, but never played

title: The Beatles' Million Sellers

text: as a catch-up for new listeners, as well as being the nearest thing to a greatest-hits album the group's homeland had seen up to this point. The band's first UK compilation album, "A Collection of Beatles Oldies", would be released in December 1966. "The Beatles' Million Sellers" is the tenth EP released by the Beatles. The EP includes four songs, all released in 1963 and 1964. As of 2007, the combined worldwide sales of all four singles stood at over 27 million copies. These songs all rank in the top 30 UK Million-Selling Singles. The EP itself was number 1

title: One-hit wonder

text: just once." This formal definition can include acts with greater success outside their lone pop hit and who are not typically considered one-hit wonders, while at the same time excluding acts who have multiple hits which have been overshadowed by one signature song, or those performers who never hit the top 40, but had exactly one song achieve mainstream popularity in some other fashion (that is, a "turntable hit" or a song that was ineligible for the top-40 charts). One-hit wonders are usually exclusive to a specific market, either a country or a genre; a performer may be a one-hit

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: What Is Love

text: What Is Love "What Is Love" is a song recorded by Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway for his debut album, "The Album". The song is recognizable by its refrain "What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me... no more." It was a massive hit in Europe, becoming a number-one hit in at least 13 countries and reaching number two in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Outside Europe, the song was moderately successful, reaching number 11 in the United States, number 12 in Australia, number 17 in Canada, and number 48 in New Zealand. "What Is Love" was written

title: Real Love (Beatles song)

text: when the American television network, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) aired the second episode of "The Beatles Anthology". The single debuted on the British charts on 16 March 1996 at number 4, selling 50,000 copies in its first week. The single's chart performance was subsequently hindered by BBC Radio 1's exclusion of "Real Love" from its playlist. Reuters, which described Radio 1 as "the biggest pop music station in Britain", reported that the station had declared: "It's not what our listeners want to hear ... We are a contemporary music station." Beatles spokesman Geoff Baker responded by saying that the

title: The Beatles (album)

text: at the time was that singles and albums were distinct entities and should not duplicate songs. However, though no singles were taken from "The Beatles" in either Britain or America, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" backed with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was released in other markets. The single was a commercial success in countries such as Australia (where it spent five weeks at number one on the "Go-Set" chart), Japan, Austria and Switzerland. Some songs that the Beatles were working on individually during this period were revisited for inclusion on the group's subsequent albums, while others were eventually released on the band

title: The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)

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'