The Beatles - Please Please Me

Their first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits when this appeared, but they still relied heavily on the cover material to see them through. Their insecurity about their own abilities seems curious in hindsight since they'd pulled the title song and "I Saw Her Standing There" (with thanks to Little Richard) out of their hats. But they were an unknown quantity, still to launch a million bands and take pop music to places it had never dreamed off. A small step for four men, a giant leap for music. --Chris Nickson

     

• Parlophone - PMC 1202 (UK) LP
• Parlophone - PCS 3042 (France) LP
• Parlophone - PCS 3042 (UK) LP
• Pepita - SLPXL 17744 (Hungary) LP
• Vee Jay Records - VJ 581 (US) 7"
• Apple Records - 74 6435 1 (UK) LP
• Parlophone - PCS 3042 (Sweden) LP
• Parlophone - PMC 1202 (UK) LP
• Parlophone - PCS 3042 (UK) LP
• Apple Records - 1A 062-04219 (Europe) LP
• Parlophone - 064-7 46435 1 LP
• Jugoton - LSPAR 70805 (Yugoslavia) LP
• Parlophone - 1A 062-04219 LP
• Capitol Records - C1 7 46435 1 LP
• Parlophone - PMCO 1202 (Australia) LP
• Parlophone - PMCM 1202 (New Zealand) LP
• Apple Records - PMCM 1202 LP
• Capitol Records - 72090 7"
• Pathé Marconi EMI - 2C 066-04219 (UK) LP

Images from Vinyl Releases of Please Please Me

Tracks

• A1)   I Saw Her Standing There
• A2)   Misery
• A3)   Anna (Go To Him)
• A4)   Chains
• A5)   Boys
• A6)   Ask Me Why
• A7)   Please Please Me
• B1)   Love Me Do
• B2)   P.S. I Love You
• B3)   Baby It's You
• B4)   Do You Want To Know A Secret
• B5)   A Taste Of Honey
• B6)   There's A Place
• B7)   Twist And Shout

Track listing above is from Parlophone - PMC 1202 (UK) LP

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