The Fab Four released Please Please Me on March 22, 1963, in England. Ringo Starr counts in the lead track “I Saw Her Standing There” with an enthusiastic “one, two, three, four!” making it clear The ...

Journey with us through seven years of astonishing sonic experimentation, as we rank the 13 Beatles studio albums ...

Listening to it now, Please Please Me, The Beatles‘ initial album release in the United Kingdom, sounds like one of the first times a rock and roll act properly took advantage of the long-playing ...

The Beatles landed at JFK Airport on February 7, 1964, greeted by 3,000 of the fans that had sent “I Want To Hold Your Hand” to the top of the Hot 100, and America’s love affair with the Fab Four hasn ...

The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, saw the band deliver their fair share of blithe rock tunes. Each song on this record was easily digestible–as was much of mainstream rock at the time. The ...

The Beatles’ influence continues to reverberate across the decades since their epoch-making emergence in global culture. Last year alone, they outpaced all “catalog” acts with some 1.5 billion streams ...

Paul McCartney said The Beatles‘ “Please Please Me” was inspired by an American rock ‘n’ roll star. Paul said the song was originally slower to mimic that star’s style. Subsequently, The Beatles’ ...