Beach reading? There are plenty of books coming out about The Beatles, among other things. Find out the best stuff available ...

Hoisted out of the material history of the Beatles’ first hit records, we’re plunged into a psychological portrait of two men ...

Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road are the only Beatles albums with longer tenures. Perhaps most impressively, Please Please Me was the first of eight straight Beatles studio albums to reach No. 1.

“Please Please Me” was an early hit for The Beatles, but it might not have made it far in its original form. According to Beatles producer George Martin, the ...

Let’s look at the story behind “Please Please Me” by The Beatles. The songwriting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was evolving at an incredible pace. From early songs like “Hello Little ...

And one could say that it all started with The Beatles’ famed 1963 track, “Please Please Me”. We probably have George Martin to thank for that. According to drummer Ringo Starr, nobody was ...

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 ...

After the single "Please Please Me" became the Beatles' first number-one hit, the band needed a debut album quickly and recorded the songs in just one day. When the album "Please Please Me" was ...

If Please Please Me was, as Lennon suggested, a frantic endeavour, it was one driven by its own rising momentum. Just a year earlier, The Beatles’ career seemed to be an uphill struggle.

An amp believed to be John Lennon’s first Vox – used in Cavern shows and in the recording of the Beatles' first EMI sessions, including the tracks Please Please Me and Love Me Do – is going ...

At No. 45? “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” its debut marking the first Hot 100 hit for The Beatles. The single by the quartet — George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr ...