The last notes of “Please Please Me” still hung in the stale air of EMI’s Studio Two on November 26th, 1962, when George Martin’s disembodied voice crackled over the talkback from the control room ...

The Fab Four released Please Please Me on March 22, 1963, in England. Ringo Starr counts in the lead track “I Saw Her Standing There” with an enthusiastic “one, two, three, four!” making it clear The ...

How confident were the Beatles in what they had and how they played it when they entered EMI Studios in February 1963 to record their debut album, Please Please Me? So much so that they recorded ...

George Martin may have been the one to make The Beatles' dreams a reality, but he acknowledged that this masterpiece couldn't ...

Paul McCartney felt some of The Beatles‘ songs were deeper than others. Despite this, he felt writing The Beatles’ “Please Please Me” was essentially the same as writing “The Long and Winding Road.” ...

Listening to it now, Please Please Me, The Beatles‘ initial album release in the United Kingdom, sounds like one of the first times a rock and roll act properly took advantage of the long-playing ...

The Beatles actually didn't arrive here until Feb. 7, 1964. But 2013 does mark the 50th anniversary of the release of "Please Please Me," The Fab Four's debut album in England, which helped catapult ...

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 streams ...

An original and extremely rare 1963 mono copy of the Beatles' ‘Please Please Me’ album, signed by the Fab Four, sold April 18 during an eBay auction for nearly $25,000. Finding a copy of their debut ...

Last week, Paul McCartney delivered a sold-out performance at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, marking the second of two ...