Lennon sang or composed the bulk of the songs, with “I Should Have Known Better” and “I’ll Be Back” particular highlights, but McCartney owned three of the most lustrous jewels in “And I Love Her”, “Can’t Buy Me Love” and the band’s most sophisticated song to date, “Things We Said Today”. The Beatles’ third album was light years ahead of the opposition in their homeland in 1964, from the moment it announced itself with the epochal opening chord on George’s new Rickenbacker 12-string on the famous title track.
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Partly the soundtrack of their first movie which amounts to their first quantum leap with all 13 tracks penned by Lennon and McCartney. Bob Dylan’s influence permeated Lennon’s superb “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” and McCartney’s countrified “I’ve Just Seen a Face” rolls and tumbles sumptuously, and then there’s the bittersweet “You’re Going to Lose That Girl” – a cavalcade of riches that emphatically compensate for some of the lesser tracks on show. It also points to the future of pop music as acts more and more began to write their own material, and remains one of the great debut albums.Ī tie-in with the band’s second film, Help! was a considerable improvement on previous album Beatles For Sale, and in truth is a bit of a mixed bag, but the best songs are very good indeed, rising to classic status with “Ticket to Ride”, McCartney’s “Yesterday” – the ultimate Beatles standard – and the title track, which was Lennon’s very real cry for help. Almost half the 14 tracks were cover versions, and as such, Please Please Me is an undeniably raw, but breathless and brilliant rush through the band’s live act of the day, with Ringo proving conclusively that he was the right man for the job. Lennon’s justly lauded, throat-tearing version of “Twist and Shout” bookends the album and in between there’s a mix of originals and covers including a fine Harrison vocal on “Do You Want to Know a Secret” and the first two hits “Love Me Do” and the euphoric title track as the band struck up an immediate rapport with producer George Martin, even if George (Harrison) didn’t like his tie. The tone of the thrilling debut that launched the Fab Four into pop music history is set by Paul on the opening track as he counts in “I Saw Her Standing There” (“One, Two, Three, Four!”). The best-known songs – “All You Need Is Love” and “Yellow Submarine” are available on innumerable compilations, and of the four new songs, only Lennon’s raw and menacing “Hey Bulldog” hits the mark.
Not as bad as popular myth would have it, nevertheless, the soundtrack to the band’s animated movie is the one Beatles album that comes closest to a “file under – for completists only” rating. Almost all Beatles albums are great in their own way and I’m sure we all have our own ideas on the order of merit. During their lifetime, The Beatles released a dozen studio albums – I don’t include 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour as it was originally only released as a double EP in the UK, and was only bulked up for subsequent re-releases with various singles and non-album tracks much later. A 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Abbey Road will soon be released and it’s clear that almost five decades since they broke up, the world is still fascinated by the music of the greatest pop group ever. On 26 September 1969, the last album recorded by The Beatles was released. With the introduction of psychedelics, spirituality, and Indian music in the mid-'60s, George's horizons expanded considerably and he started to come into his own as a musician, releasing a pair of experimental albums on Apple's Zapple offshoot before settling into a. Harrison's measured, considered persona was reflected in his music, particularly his clean, composed lead guitar parts but also in his earliest songs for the Beatles where he didn't seem to waste a line. He preferred sly provocations to larger-than-life bravado.
He favored wry wit to Ringo Starr's clowning, and he never indulged in either John Lennon's penchant for controversy or Paul McCartney's crowd-pleasing antics. Nicknamed "the Quiet Beatle" at the height of Beatlemania, George Harrison did indeed seem somewhat reserved compared to the other members of the Fab Four.