The first Beatles album released in the U.S., Introducing...The Beatles is a slightly abridged version of Please Please Me, which had been released in the U.K. four months...
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On this 55-minute collection of 21 interviews with the Beatles, conducted between July 1963 and March 1964, many by the BBC, the group members discuss their fame during a...
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After years and years of bootlegging, the remaining Beatles decided it was time to give the fans "official" versions of the stuff they wanted. You get a few unreleased gems,...
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The first in a series of three double-CD sets of previously unreleased and rare Beatles material, released in conjunction with the mammoth Anthology video documentary. This...
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This four-song, nine-and-a-half-minute EP contains the title track, drawn from the Live At The BBC album, plus three BBC recordings left off the album and previously...
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After years and years of bootlegging, the remaining Beatles decided it was time to give the fans "official" versions of the stuff they wanted. You get a few unreleased gems,...
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The final installment of the Anthology series has two discs of previously unreleased material from the White Album era through the group's demise in early 1970. In terms of...
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After years and years of bootlegging, the remaining Beatles decided it was time to give the fans "official" versions of the stuff they wanted. You get a few unreleased gems,...
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As expected, the second installment of the Anthology series reflects the Beatles' increasing use of the studio-as-laboratory during their "middle years." Some live material...
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Everyone in the world had an opinion about the "new" Beatles single "Free As A Bird" in late 1995. Mine is that it's not half bad -- which is far from being great. And great...
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John Lennon's "Real Love" seems to have been a more finished demo than that for "Free As A Bird," which makes it more of a Lennon solo track, despite the overdubbed presence...
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This disc (the fourth in the series) consists of a previously unreleased Beatles interview conducted after a jet-lagged flight from London while getting ready to play Hong...
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Apparently, there was a gap in the Beatles' catalog, after all -- all the big hits weren't on one tidy, single-disc compilation. It's not the kind of gap you'd necessarily...
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Assembling a compilation of the Beatles is a difficult task, not only because they had an enormous number of hits, but also because singles didn't tell the full story; many...
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Picking up where 1962-1966 left off, the double-album compilation 1967-1970, commonly called The Blue Album, covers the Beatles' later records, from Sgt. Pepper through Let...
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This is a non-music album consisting of interviews with the Beatles (one backstage at the New Musical Express poll-winners concert on April 26, 1964, and another, on the set...
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Hey, is this an unreleased Flamin' Groovies LP or what? More covers than originals, it was their first British album--and remember, singles were still more popular at this...
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Once "Please Please Me" rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album...
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This is a non-music album consisting of interview material. First, there's a 1964 radio show chronicling the Beatles' Australian tour of June 1964, with lots of screaming,...
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This is a non-music album consisting of promotional radio interviews with the Beatles concerning the films A Hard Day's Night (Side One) and Help! (Side Two). ~ William...
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This is a non-music album consisting of press conferences held by the Beatles in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1964 and 1966. They're given a hard time by the press on...
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With the exception of "I Saw Her Standing There," this includes most of the tracks released in America on Meet The Beatles and The Beatles' Second Album, both true gems but...
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With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order -- one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with...
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Released at the height of Beatlemania, this is where you might go to hear exactly what it sounded like. Not a bad film, either. And the first Beatles effort to feature...
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A Hard Day's Night not only was the de facto soundtrack for their movie, not only was it filled with nothing but Lennon-McCartney originals, but it found the Beatles truly...
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Just a damn good li'l rockin' 'n' rollin' album, featuring both covers and originals. The strange thing, however, is that the covers sound like they could be Beatles...
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It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something...
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So much better than the American version (which featured incidental music from the film, a pale successor to A Hard Day's Night, but gave the Monkees their visual method)....
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Considering that Help! functions as the Beatles' fifth album and as the soundtrack to their second film -- while filming, they continued to release non-LP singles on a...
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A pop masterpiece, although it should be noted that until Sgt. Pepper's, the American and British versions of their albums were significantly different. Many American fans...
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While the Beatles still largely stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul, the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities....
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Again, Sgt. Pepper's gets the accolades, but the Timothy Leary influence was already in full effect on this highly eclectic album, featuring beautiful ballads and...
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All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical subjects, and styles of composition. It wasn't just Lennon and...
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OK, it might be rated higher and held up better had it not received all the hype and "artistic achievement" mumble-jumble. On the other hand, it does hold up remarkably...
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OK, it might be rated higher and held up better had it not received all the hype and "artistic achievement" mumble-jumble. On the other hand, it does hold up remarkably...
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Although Sgt. Pepper's gets all the accolades, this is in many ways a more enjoyable listen, especially since the American version (it was only an EP in Britain; thus, it's...
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The U.S. version of the soundtrack for the Beatles' ill-fated British television special embellished the six songs that were found on the British Magical Mystery Tour double...
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Granted, this was the first place in which they began sounding like individuals as opposed to "The Beatles," revealing sounds and personalities that would continue...
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The soundtrack from the animated film of the same title, this is desirable for the terrific tracks--"Hey Bulldog," "All Together Now," and Harrison's "Only A Northern Song."...
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The only Beatles album that could really be classified as inessential, mostly because it wasn't really a proper album at all, but a soundtrack that only utilized four new...
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Although Let It Be was released later as their final LP, this was actually their final effort together--and always a class act, they figured if they were going out, they'd...
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The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual...
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Their last "official" release as a band, although Abbey Road was recorded after this. What makes it good is the band had decided to "Get Back" to its roots, and it features...
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The only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews, there are few other rock records as controversial as Let It Be. First off, several facts need to be...
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Ditto as volume 2, but including singles, b-sides and EP tunes from the earlier part of their career. With "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I'll Get You" all...
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When Capitol decided to release the original British editions of the Beatles' albums instead of the bastardized American versions, they were left with a bit of a quandary....
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The Past Masters duo was released so that EMI/Capitol could have everything the band ever released on CD. And since the Beatles recorded numerous singles that never appeared...
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Picking up in 1965 where Past Masters, Vol. 1 left off, Past Masters, Vol. 2 collects the 15 non-LP tracks that the Beatles released in the last five years of their career...
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The Fabs appeared numerous times on Britain's public radio station early in their career--and following decades of bootlegs and holiday radio specials in both America and...
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From 1962 to 1965, the Beatles made 52 appearances on the BBC, recording live-in-the-studio performances of both their official releases and several dozen songs that they...
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Capitol strikes again, using the remaining six tracks from Beatles for Sale, four newly recorded songs (two of them covers of Larry Williams hits), and the B-side of a...
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Dave Dexter, Jr. (a name which will live in infamy) "assisted" the Beatles by pulling eight tracks from Beatles for Sale, one from A Hard Day's Night, and both sides of the...
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Capitol acquired the rights to the Beatles material on which it had passed in 1963, and so issued this album, which consists of 11 of the 14 tracks from Please Please Me. ~...
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Richard Lester returned to direct the encore feature in 1965, and it's in color to boot. The Fab Four are on the lam once again, attempting to safeguard Ringo's precious...
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Kind of a catch-all record, Hey Jude was released very late in the Beatles' career, and it collects several singles and B-sides that never made it onto "official" albums. As...
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This is the official record of Beatlemania in full cry, a composite of two concerts recorded a year apart in Los Angeles' vast concrete amphitheater, the Hollywood Bowl,...
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Having charted high with a grab-bag double album of Beatle rockers, Rock and Roll Music in 1976, Capitol compiled what amounts to the former album's flip side the following...
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Most can call it from memory: the image of the Beatles disembarking from their plane on a cold February day in New York. Less visible in the old black-and-white film...
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When EMI and Capitol released the Beatles' recordings on compact disc, it was decided to issue the albums in their original British formats in both the U.K. and the U.S. The...
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Songs never released on album, or in stereo, or in alternate versions, make up this collector's album of oddities. (Not to be confused with Parlophone's album of the same...
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In preparing Revolver for U.S. release, Bill Miller simply cut the three songs already used on Yesterday...and Today, resulting in an 11-song version. ~ William Ruhlmann,...
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A pop masterpiece, although it should be noted that until Sgt. Pepper's, the American and British versions of their albums were significantly different. Many American fans...
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In a stroke of marketing whimsy, Capitol Records removed four songs from the U.K. edition of Rubber Soul, and added two songs from the U.K. Help! in an attempt to offer a...
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The Beatles' Second Album was the first album of the group's work to be assembled by Capitol Records exclusively for the American market (as opposed to, say, Meet the...
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Capitol Records initially did not have the rights to A Hard Day's Night, issued in the U.S. as a soundtrack by United Artists, the company that released the film. Instead,...
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Yesterday...and Today was the last Beatles album to be created exclusively for the American market without the group's direct consent, and its tumultuous history seemed to...
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During their final engagement at the Star Club in Germany in December 1962, after they had released their debut single, "Love Me Do," but before they had achieved their...
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During their final engagement at the Star Club in Germany in December 1962, after they had released their debut single, "Love Me Do," but before they had achieved their...
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Before beginning their recording career, the Beatles recorded a few tracks in Hamburg in 1961 as the backing group for British singer Tony Sheridan. Reissued in countless...
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Admittedly, the soundtrack to Yellow Submarine wasn't one of the highlights in the Beatles' catalog, so providing an official alternate version of it is no big deal....
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In May 1961, the Beatles were hired as the backup band for singer Tony Sheridan, resulting in the recording of eight tracks, six of which featured Sheridan on vocals, one of...
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The early Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best -- Ringo was with Rory Storm's Hurricanes -- back singer Tony Sheridan on some rock remakes...
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When the Beatles' albums were reissued on CD in 1987, the group seized the opportunity to standardize their catalog internationally, choosing to release the British version...
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