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Please Please Me

The debut, mostly cut in a single February day and a record-setting 30 weeks at number one.
The Beatles, 1963

Released
22 March 1963
Recorded
11 and 20 February 1963
Studio
EMI Studios, London
Label
Parlophone
Producer
George Martin
Length
31:59

The main session took place on 11 February 1963, with overdubs on 20 February. The album held the top of the British chart for 30 weeks and spent 62 consecutive weeks in the top ten, a record for a debut album until 2013. AllMusic gives it five stars and Pitchfork 9.5.

Track listing

  1. I Saw Her Standing There2:52
  2. Misery1:47
  3. Anna2:54
  4. Chains2:23
  5. Boys2:24
  6. Ask Me Why2:24
  7. Please Please Me2:00
  8. Love Me Do2:19
  9. P.S. I Love You2:02
  10. Baby It's You2:35
  11. Do You Want to Know a Secret1:56
  12. A Taste of Honey2:01
  13. There's a Place1:49
  14. Twist and Shout2:33

More from The Beatles

With the Beatles (1963), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Rubber Soul (1965), Help! (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), The Beatles (The White Album) (1968), Abbey Road (1969), Let It Be (1970)

Sources

  1. Please Please Me, Wikipedia