The five best Please Please Me songs remain some of The Beatles’ best and show a band with the tools to conquer the world with their groundbreaking music. (Presented in the order they appear on ...

Eventually, after releasing Please Please Me on January 11, 1963, changed everything for them. But John Lennon later revealed how he wrote the song alone before producer George Martin perfected it.

A future in which creative, self-contained bands write their own songs and the throwaway pop disc evolves into a revered sonic artform. Please Please Me would also mark the dawn of a phenomenon.

"The songs on this album had a significant hand ... when the tracks of Please Please Me were introduced and adopted en masse. Until this time, the US had set the agenda of popular music across ...