5 October 1962: UK single release: Love Me Do | The Beatles Bible Friday 5 October 1962 Release 2 Comments The Beatles' debut single was released on 5 October 1962. Love Me Do reached number 17 in the charts, which was a strong showing for a band's first release. Although they re-recorded the single with session drummer Andy White on 11 September , initial copies of the single carried the recording of Love Me Do from their early 4 September session. When EMI came to release the 1963 EP The Beatles' Hits, it was decided that the version featuring White was best, and the master recording featuring Ringo 's drumming was destroyed. Sales of Love Me Do/ PS I Love You were strongest in the Liverpool area. There were strong rumours that Brian Epstein bought 10,000 copies of the single to improve its chart ranking. While quite possibly true, these were never proven to be true. Steve Beauchampe Monday 27 May 2013 Hello, It seems that they also played a gig at the Co-op Ballroom in Nuneaton on this date.

It’s mentioned, along with an advert for the gig (no date on the advert though) in Pete Chamber’s well researched 2006 book The Beatles – Sent To Coventry and in a BBC Coventry and Warwickshire on-line story from October last year (put Beatles, Nuneaton 1962 into a search engine) The BBC story has at least one inaccuracy though, the cake throwing incident appears to relate to a Rolling Stones gig the following year. Nonetheless, there seems enough evidence that the gig did occur unless you have anything to the contrary. Steve Beauchampe Teresa Sheppard Wednesday 20 August 2014 My Version Has Love Me Do On Both Sides orange And Yellow Label is it Rare? The Beatles | Rolling Stone artists > T > The Beatles > Bio The Beatles Bio No band has influenced pop culture the way the Beatles have. They were one of the best things to happen in the twentieth century, let alone the Sixties. They were youth personified.

They were unmatched innovators who were bigger than both Jesus and rock & roll itself: During the week of April 4, 1964, the Beatles held the first five slots on the Billboard Singles chart; they went on to sell more than a billion records; and 2000's 1, a compilation of the Beatles Number One hits, hit Number One in 35 countries and went on to become the best-selling album of the 2000s. Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional. As musicians, the Beatles proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records.

As a unit the Beatles were a synergistic combination: Paul McCartney's melodic bass lines, Ringo Starr's slaphappy no-rolls drumming, George Harrison's rockabilly-style guitar leads, John Lennon's assertive rhythm guitar — and their four fervent voices. As personalities, they defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic. Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionistic studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop. Lennon was performing with his amateur skiffle group the Quarrymen at a church picnic on July 6, 1957, in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton when he met McCartney, whom he later invited to join his group; soon they were writing songs together, such as "The One After 909." By the year's end McCartney had convinced Lennon to let Harrison join their group, the name of which was changed to Johnny and the Moondogs in 1958. In 1960 an art-school friend of Lennon's, Stu Sutcliffe, became their bassist.

Sutcliffe couldn't play a note but had recently sold one of his paintings for a considerable sum, which the group, now rechristened the Silver Beetles (from which "Silver" was dropped a few months later, and "Beetles" amended to "Beatles"), used to upgrade its equipment. Tommy Moore was their drummer until Pete Best replaced him in August 1960. Once Best had joined, the band made its first of four trips to Hamburg, Germany. In December Harrison was deported back to England for being underage and lacking a work permit, but by then their 30-set weeks on the stages of Hamburg beer houses had honed and strengthened their repertoire (mostly Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, and Buddy Holly covers), and on February 21, 1961, they debuted at the Cavern club on Mathew Street in Liverpool, beginning a string of nearly 300 performances there over the next couple of years.

In April 1961 they again went to Hamburg, where Sutcliffe (the first of the Beatles to wear his hair in the long, shaggy style that came to be known as the Beatle haircut) left the group to become a painter, while McCartney switched from rhythm guitar to bass. The Beatles returned to Liverpool as a quartet in July. Sutcliffe died from a brain hemorrhage in Hamburg less than a year later. The Beatles had been playing regularly to packed houses at the Cavern when they were spotted on November 9 by Brian Epstein (b. Sep. 19, 1934, Liverpool). After being discharged from the British Army on medical grounds, Epstein had attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London for a year before returning to Liverpool to manage his father's record store. The request he received for a German import single entitled "My Bonnie" (which the Beatles had recorded a few months earlier in Hamburg, backing singer Tony Sheridan and billed as the Beat Brothers) convinced him to check out the group. Epstein was surprised to discover not only that the Beatles weren't German but that they were one of the most popular local bands in Liverpool. Within two months he became their manager.

Epstein cleaned up their act, eventually replacing black leather jackets, tight jeans, and pompadours with collarless gray Pierre Cardin suits and mildly androgynous haircuts. Epstein tried landing the Beatles a record contract, but nearly every label in Europe rejected the group. In May 1962, however, producer George Martin (b. Jan. 3, 1926, North London, Eng.) signed the group to EMI's Parlophone subsidiary. Pete Best, then considered the group's undisputed sex symbol, was asked to leave the group on August 16, 1962, and Ringo Starr, drummer with a popular Liverpool group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, was added, just in time for the group's first recording session. On September 11 the Beatles cut two originals, "Love Me Do" b/w "P.S. I Love You," which became their first U.K. Top 20 hit in October. In early 1963 "Please Please Me" went to Number Two, and they recorded an album of the same name in one 10-hour session on February 11, 1963.

With the success of their third English single, "From Me to You" (Number One), the British record industry coined the term "Merseybeat" (after the river that runs through Liverpool) for groups such as the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and the Searchers. By mid-year the Beatles were given billing over Roy Orbison on a national tour, and the hysterical outbreaks of Beatlemania had begun. Following their first tour of Europe in October, they moved to London with Epstein. Constantly mobbed by screaming fans, the Beatles required police protection almost any time they were seen in public. Late in the year "She Loves You" became the biggest-selling single in British history (in the years since, only six other singles have sold more copies there). In November 1963 the group performed before the Queen Mother at the Royal Command Variety Performance.

EMI's American label, Capitol, had not released the group's 1963 records (which Martin licensed to independents like Vee-Jay and Swan with little success) but was finally persuaded to release its fourth single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and Meet the Beatles (identical to the Beatles' second British album, With the Beatles) in January 1964 and to invest $50,000 in promotion for the then unknown British act. The album and the single became the Beatles' first U.S. chart-toppers. On February 7 screaming mobs met them at New York City's Kennedy Airport, and more than 70 million people watched each of their appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9 and 16. In April 1964 "Can't Buy Me Love" became the first record to top American and British charts simultaneously, and that same month the Beatles held the top five positions on Billboard singles chart ("Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "Please Please Me").

Their first movie, A Hard Day's Night (directed by Richard Lester), opened in America in August; it grossed $1.3 million in its first week. The band was aggressively merchandised - Beatle wigs, Beatle clothes, Beatle dolls, lunch boxes, a cartoon series — from which, because of Epstein's ineptitude at business, the band made surprisingly little money. The Beatles also opened the American market to such British Invasion groups as the Dave Clark Five, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks. By 1965 Lennon and McCartney rarely wrote songs together, although by contractual and personal agreement songs by either of them were credited to both. The Beatles toured Europe, North America, the Far East, and Australia that year. Their second movie, Help! (also directed by Lester), was filmed in England, Austria, and the Bahamas in the spring and opened in the U.S. in August. On August 15 they performed to 55,600 fans at New York's Shea Stadium, setting a record for largest concert audience. McCartney's "Yesterday" (Number One, 1965) would become one of the most often covered songs ever written.

In June the Queen of England had announced that the Beatles would be awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire). The announcement sparked some controversy — some MBE holders returned their medal — but on October 26, 1965, the ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace. (Lennon returned his medal in 1969 as an antiwar gesture. Interestingly, even though he rejected the medal, the honor itself cannot be returned; Lennon technically remained an MBE.) With 1965's Rubber Soul, the Beatles' ambitions began to extend beyond love songs and pop formulas. Their success led adults to consider them, along with Bob Dylan, spokesmen for youth culture, and their lyrics grew more poetic and somewhat more political. In summer 1966 controversy erupted when a remark Lennon had made to a British newspaper reporter months before was widely reported in the U.S. The quote — "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now" — incited denunciations and Beatles record bonfires.

The anti-Beatles backlash was particularly intense in the U.S., where the group was set to begin a tour just two weeks after the controversy erupted, and included death threats against the group. Largely out of concern for the safety of his fellow band members, Lennon apologized at a Chicago press conference. The Beatles gave up touring after an August 29, 1966, concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park and made the rest of their music in the studio, where they had begun to experiment with exotic instrumentation ("Norwegian Wood," 1965, had featured sitar) and tape abstractions such as the reversed tracks on "Rain." "Strawberry Fields Forever," part of a double-sided single released in February 1967 to fill the unusually long gap between albums, featured an astonishing display of electronically altered sounds and hinted at what was to come. With "Taxman" and "Love You To" on Revolver, Harrison began to emerge as a songwriter. It took four months and $75,000 to record Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band using a then state-of-the-art four-track tape recorder and building each cut layer by layer.

Released in June 1967, it was hailed as serious art for its "concept" and its range of styles and sounds, a lexicon of pop and electronic noises; such songs as "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life" were carefully examined for hidden meanings. The album spent 15 weeks at Number One (longer than any of their others) and has sold over 8 million copies. On June 25, 1967, the Beatles recorded their new single, "All You Need Is Love," before an international television audience of 400 million, as part of a broadcast called Our World. On August 27, 1967 – while the four were in Wales beginning their six-month involvement with Transcendental Meditation and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (which took them to India for two months in early 1968) — Epstein died alone in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills, later ruled accidental.

Shaken by Epstein's death, the Beatles retrenched under McCartney's leadership in the fall and filmed Magical Mystery Tour, which was aired by BBC-TV on December 26, 1967, and later released in the U.S. as a feature film. Although the telefilm was panned by British critics, fans, and Queen Elizabeth herself, the soundtrack album contained their most cryptic work yet in "I Am the Walrus," a Lennon composition. As the Beatles' late-1967 single "Hello Goodbye" went to Number One in both the U.S. and Britain, the group launched the Apple clothes boutique in London. McCartney called the retail effort "Western communism"; the boutique closed in July 1968. Like their next effort, Apple Corps Ltd. (formed in January 1968 and including Apple Records, which signed James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, and Badfinger), it was plagued by mismanagement.

In July the group faced its last hysterical crowds at the premiere of Yellow Submarine, an animated film by Czech avant-garde designer and artist Heinz Edelmann featuring four new Beatles songs; a revised soundtrack featuring nine extra songs was released in 1999 (Number 15). In August they released McCartney's "Hey Jude" (Number One), backed by Lennon's "Revolution" (Number 12), which sold over 6 million copies before the end of 1968 — their most popular single. Meanwhile, the group had been working on the double album The Beatles (frequently called the White Album), which showed their divergent directions. The rifts were artistic — Lennon moving toward brutal confessionals, McCartney leaning toward pop melodies, Harrison immersed in Eastern spirituality — and personal, as Lennon drew closer to his wife-to-be, Yoko Ono. Lennon and Ono's Two Virgins (with its full frontal and back nude cover photos) was released the same month as The Beatles and stirred up so much outrage that the LP had to be sold wrapped in brown paper.

(The Beatles, went to Number One, Two Virgins peaked at Number 124.) The Beatles attempted to smooth over their differences in early 1969 at filmed recording sessions. When the project fell apart hundreds of hours of studio time later, no one could face editing the tapes (a project that eventually fell to record producer Phil Spector), and "Get Back" (Number One, 1969) was the only immediate release. Released in spring 1970, Let It Be is essentially a documentary of their breakup, including an impromptu January 30, 1969, rooftop concert at Apple Corps headquarters, their last public performance as the Beatles. By spring 1969 Apple was losing thousands of pounds each week. Over McCartney's objections, the other three brought in manager Allen Klein to straighten things out; one of his first actions was to package nonalbum singles as Hey Jude. With money matters temporarily out of mind, the four joined forces in July and August 1969 to record Abbey Road, featuring an extended suite as well as more hits, including Harrison's much-covered "Something" (Number Three, 1969).

While its release that fall spurred a "Paul Is Dead" rumor based on clues supposedly left throughout their work, Abbey Road became the Beatles' best-selling album, at 9 million copies. Meanwhile, internal bickering persisted. In September Lennon told the others, "I'm leaving the group. I've had enough. I want a divorce." But he was persuaded to keep quiet while their business affairs were untangled. On April 10, 1970, McCartney released his first solo album and publicly announced the end of the Beatles. At the same time, Let It Be finally surfaced, becoming the group's 14th Number One album (a postbreakup compilation would become their 15th in 1973) and yielding the Beatles' 18th and 19th chart-topping singles, "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road." Throughout the Seventies, as repackages of Beatles music continued to sell, the four were hounded by bids and pleas for a reunion. Lennon's murder by a mentally disturbed fan on December 8, 1980, ended those speculations.

In 1988 the Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. McCartney, citing business conflicts with the two other surviving members, did not attend. Relations between him and Harrison, in particular, had been strained for some time. In January 1994 Goldmine magazine reported that McCartney, Harrison, and Starr had begun recording music for a long-rumored Beatles documentary the previous August, with more secret sessions scheduled. There were other signs that the three band members were on the mend — when Lennon was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1994, for instance, McCartney did the honors (McCartney himself was inducted in 1999). Later in 1994 Live at the BBC was released, featuring 56 songs the Beatles performed on the British radio between 1962 and 1965. It debuted at Number One in the U.K.; in the U.S., it debuted and peaked at Number Three.

The Beatles Anthology, the long-awaited six-hour television special, was broadcast over three nights in November 1995, coinciding with the release of the George Martin-compiled double-CD Anthology 1 (Number One), which featured alternate takes, demos, and rare tracks, and premiered the first new song by John, Paul, George, and Ringo since 1970. "Free as a Bird" (Number Six, 1995), a demo recorded by Lennon in 1977, was completed by the other three and produced by Jeff Lynne; it became the Beatles 34th Top 10 single. Lennon's lyrics didn't extend much beyond the title, and so Harrison and McCartney collaborated on lyrics for a new bridge. Two additional double CDs, Anthology 2 and 3 (both Number One), followed in 1996, as well as an extended videotape version of the documentary. Anthology 2's "Real Love" (again a Lennon demo, from 1979, with modern additions by the others) reached Number 11 and became the group's 23rd gold single (the most of any group).

The Liverpool juggernaut continued to roll on in 2000: the Beatles became the highest certified act of all time, with over 113 million albums sold in America (which grew to 170 million albums in 2008); a coffee table book, The Beatles Anthology, topped the New York Times bestseller list; and 1, a collection of the band's Number One hit songs, became the Beatles' 19th chart-topping album, selling 25 million copies by 2005. On November 29, 2001, George Harrison, diagnosed with lung cancer in the late 1990s, became the second Beatle to pass away. Three years later Capitol Records released all of the Beatles' U.S. albums (in both stereo and original mono versions) as two box sets, The Capitol Albums, Vols. 1 and 2. In 2006, George Martin and his son Giles produced a set of Beatles remixes, Love, for the soundtrack to Cirque du Soleil's theater production of the same name.

The following year, McCartney and Starr appeared on CNN's Larry King Live to talk about the project; they joined Beatles widows Ono and Olivia Harrison in Las Vegas to celebrate the Love production's first anniversary. Until 2007, the Beatles' Apple Corp. was in legal limbo with the Apple, Inc. computer company over use of the name. Apple Corp. had sued Apple, Inc. after the computer company opened its online iTunes music store; one result of the suit was that the Beatles' group and solo music was not made available for digital download. In February 2007, the two sides came to an agreement. Apple, Inc. would retain ownership of the name and license it back to the Apple Corp. record label. By October, all of the Beatles' solo works were available on iTunes, but as of early 2010 the Beatles catalogue was still not available on iTunes. September 9, 2009 was a day of 21st century Beatlemania: Apple/EMI released remastered versions of the band's studio albums, with dramatically improved sound.

(Mono versions were also available, though only as a box.) Also that day, The Beatles Rock Band video game hit shelves, featuring 45 Beatle songs; by the end of 2009, it had sold more than one million copies worldwide. McCartney and Starr continued to tour and record throughout the 2000s. McCartney, who is reportedly a billionaire, released three solo albums during the decade as well as three live albums, including Good Evening New York City, which documented the inaugural concerts at New York's Citi Field in 2009. Starr released three albums in the 2000s, as well as 2010's Y Not. He appeared with McCartney at several events, including 2002's Concert for George, a charitable event held on the first anniversary of Harrison's death. Portions of this biography appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).

Chart attack: The Beatles' rivals in 1962 - BBC News BBC News Chart attack: The Beatles' rivals in 1962 By Mark Savage BBC News entertainment reporter 7 October 2012 Close share panel Image caption The Beatles' success spelt the end for many of the 1950s' biggest names It is 50 years since The Beatles first entered the UK singles chart with Love Me Do - but what were the other records in the hit parade that week? Easy listening, country, instrumentals - those were the big sellers when The Beatles made their UK chart debut on 13 October, 1962. The top 50 was dominated by solo artists: 45 of them, to be precise, from the clean-cut Cliff Richard, to venerated entertainers like Nat King Cole. Almost no-one wrote their own material. Instead, tin pan alley scribes like Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were responsible for half-a-dozen of the week's biggest singles.

UK Top 10 - 13 October, 1962 Telstar - The Tornados (pictured) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King She's Not You - Elvis Presley It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard What Now My Love - Shirley Bassey I Remember You - Frank Ifield You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles Don't That Beat All - Adam Faith And many hits were watered down cover versions of American smashes: Bermondsey boy Jimmy Justice, for example, was at number 24 with a cruelly neutered version of Ben E King's Spanish Harlem . At number one, however, was Telstar - The Tornados' first, and biggest hit. An instrumental group led by production genius Joe Meek, their song foreshadowed the Beatles' studio experiments, with its tape loops, cavernous echoes and a bleepy spaceship effect that was rumoured to be the sound of a toilet flushing, played in reverse. "Instrumentals were good because they were international," says the band's drummer, Clem Cattini.

"There were no language barriers, there were just tunes." Telstar went on to become the first US number one by a British rock group, and sold five million copies worldwide. It wasn't the only non-vocal tune in the Top 50 that week. The Shadows, Duane Eddy and jazz legend Mr Acker Bilk all featured, as did Jet Harris's Oscar-nominated theme for The Man With The Golden Arm - memorably accompanied on film by Saul Bass's groundbreaking "jagged arm" title sequence. But The Beatles' brief appearance at the bottom of the chart signalled the end for these songs. "As soon as the Beatlemania thing started, instrumental groups went out the window," says Cattini. "Even the Shadows struggled for quite a while. Cliff struggled, really, until he got Devil Woman in the '70s. "The Beatles took the shine off everybody else. They were so powerful and so successful over here and in America, nobody wanted any instrumental groups. It was all singing groups. We even got down to the low of making a vocal EP, which was an absolute disaster." Million seller A couple of places below The Tornados was Australian-English crooner Frank Ifield.

His single, a cover of country standard I Remember You , was one of two hits in the Top 50 to feature yodelling (the other was Karl Denver's Blue Weekend ). More importantly, it was the first British single to sell more than one million copies, having spent seven weeks at number one over the summer. The following year, Ifield's Wayward Wind would stop The Beatles second single, Please Please Me , getting to number one. But, like Cattini, he says the appearance of Love Me Do in the charts was the beginning of the end for the old guard. "People started to say to me, 'what group are you in?'," says Ifield, now a music promoter in Australia. Image caption Frank Ifield was the first artist to have three consecutive UK number ones "It was The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Gerry And The Pacemakers, and Freddie And The Dreamers. "The solo singers really took a back seat." But there was no animosity between Ifield and the Beatles. As Love Me Do climbed the charts, he put them on the bill for one of his shows in Peterborough (the local paper complained that Ringo "made far too much noise"). Later, he even released an album with them.

"When I went over to the States, I was released on a label called Vee-Jay," he explains, and they "had this idea of coupling my name with [the Beatles], to give them a boost." "They were going to call the album The British Invasion, or something like that, but it ended up being called 'Jolly, What?' "I loved the sleeve notes on the back, because it said 'we hope you like this copulation'. "I've never copulated with the Beatles, I've got to be honest with you!" Radio role What's interesting about the British charts in 1962 is how tame they seem compared to the equivalent countdown in the US. On the other side of the Atlantic, the top 10 featured the twisted groove of Booker T and the MGs' Green Onions and The Contours' ragged R&B classic Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)? "We just didn't seem to get that edgy stuff," says music historian Colin Larkin, who now runs the Best Things On Earth website.

"Surfing Safari was out and a hit in America - but we just weren't getting it." US Top 10 - 13 October, 1962 Sherry - The Four Seasons Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole Let's Dance - Chris Montez I Remember You - Frank Ifield Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs Do You Love Me? - The Contours Patches - Dickey Lee Alley Cat - Bent Fabric and his Piano If I Had A Hammer - Peter, Paul & Mary Billboard charts The BBC's Light Programme, now Radio 2, would have been averse to such music, he says. "And pirate radio didn't exist then - so where else would we have heard Monster Mash or Green Onions?" Radio Luxembourg was the only place to sample US R&B, and the raucous beat bands it influenced in Merseyside and Manchester. But when Love Me Do reached number 17 in December (partly because The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein bought 10,000 copies with his own money) the transformation happened almost overnight. "By Christmas, the fundamental change was made," says Larkin.

"Music publishers saw the goldmine, managers certainly saw the goldmine." The music industry loves a bandwagon, of course, but Larkin suggests that, in 1962, people were poised for a band like The Beatles to come along. What happened next? Singers like Frank Ifield, Del Shannon and Bobby Vee have a huge cult following to this day; while Clem Cattini can be heard drumming for the likes of Paul Weller. Many of the others made a living from songwriting and radio appearances. "The BBC was really good to many of these people," says Colin Larkin. "And when the package tours started, older acts opened the bill. "The Beatles actually did the whole of the industry a hell of a lot of good," he adds. "These people weren't kicked aside. It took the talented ones and, in a funny sort of way, prolonged their careers." "The music publishing industry in the '50s did incredibly well," he says. "They made a vast amount of money - but by the time they got to the early '60s, the music wasn't very imaginative. It was the tenth version of what had been done in the '50s.

There were some dreadfully average pop songs. "Music publishers were willing this massive change [to happen]. They felt it and, for once, they were at the beginning of something. "Admittedly, they ripped a lot of people off, but they were wise to the changes that were coming." The seismic shift can be overstated. The Beatles ushered in the swinging 60s, but they still shared the charts with respectable singers like Englebert Humperdinck and novelty songs like The Archies' Sugar, Sugar . But everyone agrees that something fundamental changed on 13 October, 1962. "The Beatles really invented the idea of being a band in the modern sense," says Jools Holland. "There weren't bands before who wrote their own music, there weren't bands who were really funny and there weren't bands who were iconic.

"The Beatles really changed everything and remain the blueprint for what the idea of a band is all about." Today In Pop Music: October 5 – Beatles First Single Released 50 Years Ago Today « 94.5 KOOL FM Today In Pop Music: October 5 – Beatles First Single Released 50 Years Ago Today October 5, 2012 4:55 PM Filed Under: Beatles Love Me Do released 50 years ago today , Eddie Kendricks dies 10-5-12 , first Beatles record released 50 years ago today , how many times do the beatls sing the word 'love' in Love Me Do , Jimi Hendrix Experience formed 10-5 , Steve Miller birthday 10-5-12 , Today In Pop Music - October 5 Parlophone Records - 1962 Doo-Woppers and one rocker celebrate birthdays today.

Original Belmonts (Tell Me Why) member Carlos Mastangelo is 75, The Chantels lead singer Arlene Smith (Maybe) and Skyliners tenor Wally Lester (Since I Don’t Have You) are both 71, The Temptations Richard Street is 70, Steve Miller (Fly Like An Eagle) is 69, and Harold Faltemeyer whose instrumental ‘Axel F’ cracked the American top 5 in 1985, is 60. October 5, 1965 – Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso after customs officials found hundreds of pills in his guitar case. He received a suspended sentence and a thousand dollar fine. October 5, 1966 Having moved to London, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding played together for the first time, forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience. October 5, 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, the original high tenor of the Temptations heard on hits Just My Imagination, as well as solo hits that included ‘Keep On Truckin’, dies of lung cancer at age 52, one year after having one lung removed.

October 5, 1962 – With a song that featured the word “love’ 23 times, The Beatles first single was released. Though it wouldn’t become an American hit until 1964, Love Me Do cracked the British Top 20, launching the chart success of the biggest group of all time. Here’s how the BBC reported it earlier today. The Guitar That Launched The Beatles The Guitar That Launched The Beatles Andrew Vaughan | 08.02.2016 “Love Me Do,” The Beatles’ first-ever single, announced a revolution in rock and roll. The fresh-faced Liverpudlians — Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr — sounded like nothing else on British radio in October 1962. As Harrison remembered in The Beatles Anthology: “First hearing 'Love Me Do' on the radio sent me shivery all over. It was the best buzz of all time. We knew it was going to be on Radio Luxembourg at something like 7:30 on a Thursday night.

I was in my house in Speke and we all listened in.” With its Everly-inspired harmonies, strident bass and thumping drums and that distinctive, bluesy harmonica riff, “Love Me Do” stood out amidst a sea of early ’60s British pop mediocrity. And high in the mix is Lennon’s chiming acoustic guitar, played on his new and highly prized Gibson J-160E. 1962 was a crucial year in Beatles history. Liverpool businessman Brian Epstein signed on as manager in January, Lennon’s art-school pal and the band’s original bass player, Stu Sutcliffe, died in April and, after being turned down by pretty much every label in town, they finally signed a record deal in June with Parlophone. They made their first test recordings with George Martin in June. In August, Lennon got married and The Beatles finally became The Fab Four when, Ringo Starr joined the holy trinity of John, Paul and George. With Pete Best still on drums, the group had gone to Abbey Road for some test recordings in June and had been told a few home truths by the studio engineers and Mr. Martin.

Engineer Norman Smith told Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that the band were given “a long lecture about their equipment and what would have to be done about it if they were to become recording artists.” Taking the recording studio advice to heart, George Harrison and John Lennon, remembering Tony Sheridan’s impressive Gibson ES-175, decided they needed some Gibson power and finesse of their own and both fancied a J-160E acoustic. The only problem with that was the price. England, in 1962, was still recovering from two World Wars. The economy was still precarious and the average yearly wage was only £800. The Gibson J-160Es cost a cool £161 apiece, a steep price for even a successful live band of the time. Fortunately, The Beatles had a relatively wealthy manager in Brian Epstein and he co-signed for their payment plan at Rushworh's music store in Liverpool. But even Epstein took a year to pay off the guitars! The famous old music store was one of a select few Liverpool stores for U.S. guitars, which were still tough to acquire in England in 1962.

It was the store where Paul McCartney’s father bought the 14-year-old Macca his first guitar. The Beatles purchased a lot of their early band instruments from Hessy’s music store in Liverpool, but their tab had passed £200 when Epstein came into the picture and he had to pay off the debt with a personal check. So Rushworth's it was for the Gibsons. A photo-op ceremony was set up from Bill Harry’s Merseybeat paper, and John and George were both presented with their prized sunburst Gibson J-160Es by James Rushworth. Peter Kaye took pictures for Merseybeat and the shot was printed in the paper with the caption, “John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles, seen at Rushworth’s when they received their Gibson guitars--the only ones of their type in the country--which were specially flown to England by jet from America.” The J-160Es arrived just in time for the historic London recording sessions the next day, September 11, when at EMI Abbey Road Studio Two London, Lennon played his brand spanking new Gibson J-160E on the sessions for The Beatles' first single.

Their record was released just three weeks later, on October 5th, 1962, on the Parlophone label. “Love Me Do” made it to #17 on the U.K singles chart. The Beatles had arrived. Lennon used his Gibson J-160E extensively over the next year for recordings, radio and TV appearances and live shows. But in December 1963, just after Epstein had made his final payment for the guitar, the 160E was stolen and never found again. It was, in fact, George Harrisons’ J-160E that Lennon played in scenes in A Hard Day’s Night. Later in 1964, Lennon picked up a replacement Gibson J-160E, almost the same but with double white rings around the sound hole. This is the guitar he took with him on their historic visit to America in 1964, the beginning of the British Invasion.

THE BEATLES’ “LOVE ME DO” COMMEMORATIVE 7-INCH VINYL SINGLE TO BE RELEASED 22nd OCTOBER » MBC THE BEATLES’ “LOVE ME DO” COMMEMORATIVE 7-INCH VINYL SINGLE TO BE RELEASED 22nd OCTOBER Mon 29th October 2012 “A new group from the Liverpool area. Their first record but they already have a strong following and this seems to be the strongest outsider of the week.” - Record Retailer (4th October, 1962) London – 12 October, 2012 - Fifty years ago, a little-known group from Liverpool rolled out a debut single which would quickly set the wheels in motion for the most popular and best-selling music group in history. The Beatles’ first Parlophone single, “Love Me Do,” was released on 5th October, 1962 as a 7-inch vinyl single with “P.S. I Love You” on its flipside. To celebrate this important British music milestone, Apple Corps Ltd.

and EMI are pleased to announce the 22nd October release of a limited edition replica of the single with its original Parlophone sleeve art. The commemorative single’s audio was sourced from the 2009 mono remaster to ensure the highest quality listening experience. Both sides of the “Love Me Do” single are original compositions, a remarkable statement of intent from a group making their first steps in the music business. Within a week, the single had entered the UK chart at 49 and would climb to 17, spending 18 weeks on the chart. “Love Me Do” launched the journey that would lead The Beatles to achieve unparalleled worldwide success and acclaim that continues to this day. Beatles | 10 Major Achievements of The Rock Band | Learnodo Newtonic Posted July 29, 2015 by Anirudh in Top Ten Lists 3427 Beatles | 10 Major Achievements of The Rock Band The Beatles were an English rock band who influenced music, widely and profoundly, through their innovation and unprecedented success. Their most popular line-up was known as the Fab Four and comprised of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Here are 10 major achievements and accomplishments of the most successful band in history. #1 Their first album topped the U.K. charts for thirty weeks The Beatles tasted early success. Released on October 5, 1962, their first single “Love Me Do” peaked at number seventeen. Their second single “Please Please Me” reached number one on every chart in U.K. except Record Retailer, where its highest position was number two. Due to the success of these two singles their first album titled Please Please Me, was rush-released. It topped the U.K. charts in May 1963 and remained there for thirty weeks. Cover art of the first single by The Beatles – Love Me Do #2 11 of their first 12 albums reached number one on the national charts Please Please Me started a run in which eleven of the twelve albums released by the Beatles reached number one on the national chart. The band’s third single “From Me to You” also started a run in which seventeen out of eighteen singles released by the Beatles in the next six years topped the charts in U.K. They also topped the U.S. charts regularly.

For 6 Â½ years in U.S., they had the top-selling single one out of every six weeks, and the top-selling album one out of every three weeks. Cover of the album Please Please Me #3 The Beatles expanded rock music with their innovations Through their initial releases the Beatles revolutionized the sound, style, and attitude of popular music. However they didn’t stop at that. They spent the rest of the 1960s expanding the boundaries of rock with their each new release. The band’s increasingly sophisticated experimentation encompassed a variety of genres, including folk-rock, country, psychedelia, and baroque pop. The musical innovations of the Beatles combined with their commercial success, inspired musicians worldwide perhaps more than any other act in history. The Fab Four Beatles lineup. Clockwise – Lennon, McCartney, Starr, Harrison #4 The Fab Four were made MBE for their contribution to music In 1965 Queen Elizabeth II appointed all four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). At that time the honour was primarily given to military veterans and civic leaders. Hence a controversy erupted and in protest some conservative MBE recipients returned their own honour.

John Lennon justified their inclusion by saying, “Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing peopleâ¦ We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.” The Beatles with their MBEs #5 Sgt. Pepper’s was ranked the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stones magazine Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is considered the greatest album by the Beatles. It was released in June 1967 to worldwide critical and commercial success. The album won four Grammy awards and in 2005 it was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. Album Cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band #6 The Fab Four won an Oscar for the Best Original Score for the film Let It Be Poster of the movie Let It Be Let It Be is a 1970 documentary film about the Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr collectively won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for the film.

#7 The Beatles won 10 Grammy Awards The Beatles have won ten Grammy awards including Best New Artist in 1965 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. They have received three Brit Awards, the British equivalent of the American Grammy Awards. The Beatles have also received fifteen Ivor Novello awards, which are presented annually in London for songwriting and composing. #8 The Beatles is the best-selling band in history The Beatles is the best-selling band in history. EMI records state that they have sold more than a billion units worldwide. In Britain they have had more number one albums (15) and sold more singles (21.9 million) than any other act. Even in America they have sold more units (177million) than any other artist. As of 2015, they hold the record for most number one hits on the Hot 100 chart with 20. #9 They were included in TIME’s list of the most important people of twentieth century The Beatles were ranked number 1 in Rolling Stone’s list of 100 greatest artists The Beatles were collectively included in Time magazine’s compilation of the 20th century’s 100 most influential people.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the Beatles as the best artist of all time. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine’s list of the all-time most successful “Hot 100” artists. #10 They used their influence to impact several prominent movements Counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that began in the U.S. and Britain and then spread through the west. The Beatles were icons of the 1960s counterculture and they contributed significantly in the spread of Bohemianism and various social and political movements such as women’s liberation, gay liberation and environmentalism. The Beatles: every album and single, with its chart position | Music | theguardian.com Blog home The Beatles: every album and single, with its chart position With the release of The Beatles Rock Band sparking renewed interest, this is every single and every album - from Love Me Do to Real Love, and everything in between Beatles music: Shoppers are reflected in a window as they queue at a HMV store for the launch of the game The Beatles: Rock Band in Liverpool.

Photograph: Darren Staples/REUTERS For a band that released its first single in 1962, the Beatles have amazing longevity. The release of the Rock Band game today and a series of remastered albums has sparked renewed interest in the band that never went away, despite the death of two of its members. The Beatles Rock Band is the first game officially endorsed by the group. Behind that interest lie decades of hits - all detailed here, thanks to the Official Charts Company . We've got the chart positions of each single plus every album released in the UK - plus the number of weeks they were on the chart and how many got to number one on both sides of the Atlantic. What can you mash them up with? The Beatles The Beatles Sitemap The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. They became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the history of popular music.Their best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison , and Ringo Starr . Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll , they later utilised several genres , ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock , often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways.

In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as " Beatlemania ", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication, they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions . They built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential. They gained popularity in the United Kingdom after their first single, " Love Me Do ", became a modest hit in late 1962. They acquired the nickname the "Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had become international stars, leading the " British Invasion " into the United States pop market. From 1965 on, the Beatles produced what many critics consider their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (1968), and Abbey Road (1969).

After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers. Lennon died in 1980 after having been shot by a deranged former fan, and Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain active. The Beatles have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. According to the RIAA , as of 2012 they have sold 177 million units in the US, more than any other artist. In 2008, they topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful " Hot 100 " artists. As of 2012, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with 20. They have received 7 Grammy Awards from the American National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences , an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors .

Collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people , the Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with EMI Records estimating sales of over one billion units. 1957–62: Formation, Hamburg, and UK popularity In March 1957, John Lennon , then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a respected local group was already using the name .Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he and Lennon met that July. In February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the group. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, but Lennon initially thought Harrison too young for the band.

After a month of persistence, Harrison joined as lead guitarist.By January 1959, Lennon's Quarry Bank friends had left the group, and he began studies at the Liverpool College of Art .The three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs,were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer.Lennon's art school friend Stu Sutcliffe , who had recently sold one of his paintings and purchased a bass guitar, joined in January 1960, and it was he who suggested changing the band's name to Beatals as a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets .They used the name through May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a brief tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer and fellow Liverpudlian Johnny Gentle . By early July, they changed their name to the Silver Beatles and by the middle of August to the Beatles. Their lack of a full-time drummer posed a problem when the group's unofficial manager, Allan Williams , arranged a resident band booking for them in Hamburg , Germany, so in mid-August they auditioned and hired Pete Best .

The band, now a five-piece, left four days later, contracted to club owner Bruno Koschmider for what would be a 3½-month residency.Beatles' historian Mark Lewisohn wrote, "They pulled into Hamburg at dusk on 17 August, the time when the red-light area comes to life ... flashing neon lights screamed out the various entertainment on offer, while scantily clad women sat unabashed in shop windows waiting for business opportunities ". Koschmider had converted a couple of strip clubs in the district into music venues, and he initially placed the group at the Indra Club . After closing the Indra due to noise complaints, he moved them to the Kaiserkeller in October.When he learned they had been performing at the rival Top Ten Club in breach of their contract, he gave the band one month's termination notice, and reported the underage Harrison, who had obtained permission to stay in Hamburg by lying to the German authorities about his age. The authorities arranged for Harrison's deportation in late November.

One week later, Koschmider had McCartney and Best arrested for arson after they set fire to a tapestry on the wall in their room; the authorities deported them.Lennon returned to Liverpool in early December, while Sutcliffe remained in Hamburg through late February with his German fiancée Astrid Kirchherr ,who took the first semi- professional photos of the band members .During the next two years, the group 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 through June 1962, and he used them as Tony Sheridan 's backing band on a series of recordings.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 completing their second Hamburg residency, the band enjoyed increasing popularity in Liverpool, particularly in Merseyside , 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, during one of the group's frequent appearances at the Cavern Club , 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 manager in January 1962.Throughout the winter and spring, he sought to free them from their contractual obligations to Bert Kaempfert Productions.

After an early February audition, Decca Records rejected the band with the comment "Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein".He negotiated a one month-early release from their contract in exchange for one last recording session in Hamburg. Tragedy greeted them upon their return to Germany in April, when a distraught Kirchherr met them at the airport with news of Sutcliffe's death the previous day from what would later be determined a brain haemorrhage .The following month, George Martin signed the group to EMI 's Parlophone label. The Beatles' first recording session under Martin's direction took place at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London on 6 June 1962.Martin immediately complained to Epstein about Best's poor drumming and suggested they use a session drummer in his stead. [35] The Beatles, already contemplating Best's dismissal, [36] replaced him in mid-August with Ringo Starr , who left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to join them.

[34] A 4 September session at EMI yielded a recording of " Love Me Do " featuring Starr on drums, but a dissatisfied Martin hired drummer Andy White for the band's third session a week later, which produced recordings of "Love Me Do", " Please Please Me " and " P.S. I Love You ". [34] Martin initially selected the Starr version of "Love Me Do" for the band's first single, though subsequent re-pressings featured the White version, with Starr on tambourine. [34] Released in early October, "Love Me Do" peaked at number seventeen on the Record Retailer chart. [37] The Beatles' television début came later that month with a live performance on the regional news programme People and Places . [38] A studio session in late November yielded another recording of "Please Please Me", [39] of which Martin accurately predicted, "You've just made your first No.1." [40] In December 1962, the band concluded their fifth and final Hamburg residency.

[41] By 1963, the Beatles had agreed that all four members would contribute vocals to their albums—including Starr, despite his restricted vocal range, to validate his standing in the group. [42] Lennon and McCartney had established a songwriting partnership, and as the band's success grew, their dominant collaboration limited Harrison's opportunities as a lead vocalist. [43] Epstein, in an effort to maximize the Beatles' commercial potential, encouraged them to adopt a professional approach to performing. [44] Lennon recalled him saying, "Look, if you really want to get in these bigger places, you're going to have to change—stop eating on stage, stop swearing, stop smoking". [45] Lennon said, "We used to dress how we liked, on and off stage. He'd tell us that jeans were not particularly smart and could we possibly manage to wear proper trousers, but he didn't want us suddenly looking square. He'd let us have our own sense of individuality" 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".

[46] They recorded ten songs for Please Please Me , supplemented by the four tracks already released on their first two singles. [46] After the moderate success of "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me" met with a more emphatic reception. Released in January 1963, it reached number one on every national chart except Record Retailer, where it stalled at number two. [47] Recalling how the band "rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day", Allmusic 's Stephen Thomas Erlewine comments, "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins." [48] Lennon said little thought went into composition at the time; he and McCartney were "just writing songs à la Everly Brothers , à la Buddy Holly , pop songs with no more thought of them than that—to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant. Released in March 1963, the album initiated a run during which eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United Kingdom through 1970 reached number one.

[51] 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 band, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years. [52] Released 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. [53] It became their first single to sell a million copies, and remained the biggest-selling record in the UK until 1978, when " Mull of Kintyre ", by McCartney's post-Beatles band Wings , surpassed it in sales. [54] Their popularity brought increasing press attention, to which the Beatles responded with an irreverent and comical attitude that defied the expectations of pop musicians at the time, inspiring even more interest. The band toured the UK three times in the first half of the year: a four-week tour that began in February, the band's first nationwide, preceded three-week tours in March and May–June.

[56] As their popularity spread, a frenzied adulation of the group took hold. Greeted with riotous enthusiasm by screaming fans, the press dubbed the phenomenon " Beatlemania ". [57] Although not billed as tour leaders, they overshadowed American acts Tommy Roe and Chris Montez during the February engagements and assumed top billing "by audience demand" wrote Lewisohn, something no British act had previously accomplished while touring with artists from the US. [58] A similar situation arose during the band's May–June tour with Roy Orbison "British Invasion" EMI's American subsidiary, Capitol Records , hindered the Beatles' releases in the United States for more than a year by initially declining to issue their music, including their first three singles. Concurrent negotiations with the independent US labels Vee-Jay and Swan led to the release of the songs in 1963, [74] but legal issues with royalties and publishing rights proved an obstacle to the successful marketing of the group in the US.

[75] Exercising complete control over format, Capitol began to issue the material in December 1963, [74] compiling distinct US albums from the band's recordings and issuing songs of their choosing as singles. [76] American chart success began after Epstein arranged for a $40,000 US marketing campaign and secured the support of disk jockey Carrol James, who first played the band's records in mid-December 1963, initiating their music's spread across US radio. This caused an increase in demand, leading Capitol to rush-release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" later that month. [77] Released 26 December 1963, 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. The Beatles left the United Kingdom on 7 February 1964, with an estimated four thousand fans gathered at Heathrow, waving and screaming as the aircraft took off. [79] Upon landing at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport , an uproarious crowd estimated at three thousand greeted them.

[80] They gave their first live US television performance two days later on The Ed Sullivan Show , watched by approximately 73 million viewers in over 23 million households, [81] or 34 percent of the American population. According to the Nielsen rating service, wrote Gould, it was "the largest audience that had ever been recorded for an American television program." [82] The next morning, the Beatles awoke to a negative critical consensus in the US, [83] but a day later their first US concert saw Beatlemania erupt at Washington Coliseum . [84] Back in New York the following day, the Beatles met with another strong reception during two shows at Carnegie Hall . [81] The band then flew to Florida and appeared on the weekly Ed Sullivan Show a second time, before another 70 million viewers, before returning to the UK on February 22.

Question: What was the Beatles' first chart single success, released in October 1962?
Answer: Love Me Do