> Other than the material already present in their singles, the Beatles recorded Please Please Me in one day at EMI Studios on 11 February 1963.
> The album was well-received in Britain, where it remained in the Top 10 for over a year, a record for a debut album that stood for half a century. Please Please Me hit the top of the UK album charts in May 1963 and remained there for 30 weeks before being replaced by With the Beatles. This was an unprecedented achievement for a pop album at that time. Please Please Me was the first non-soundtrack album to spend more than one year consecutively inside the top ten of what became the Official UK Albums Chart (with 62 weeks).[38] This record run of consecutive weeks in the top ten for a debut album stood until April 2013, when Emeli Sandé's Our Version of Events achieved a 63rd consecutive week.
> Martin doubted the commercial appeal of "Love Me Do" and was surprised when it reached No. 17 on the British charts in November.[9] Now convinced that the Beatles could write hits . . . he proposed that they record a full album—a recommendation Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn deemed "genuinely mind-boggling" because the Beatles were so new to the music scene and because the album market was dominated by adult buyers, not teenagers.
> The Beatles arrived with John Lennon suffering from a bad cold, which he attempted to treat with a steady supply of throat lozenges. [After recording all day with a rehearsal session over lunch] at 10 pm, with the studios set to close soon, the day ended with a cover of "Twist and Shout". This had to be recorded last because Lennon had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal would ruin Lennon's voice for the day. This performance, caught on the first take, prompted Martin to say: "I don't know how they do it. We've been recording all day but the longer we go on the better they get."[17] Lennon later remarked, "The last song nearly killed me. My voice wasn't the same for a long time after; every time I swallowed, it was like sandpaper."[21]
Track listing
All songs written by McCartney–Lennon, except where noted. Track lengths per Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin and lead vocals per Ian MacDonald.[77][78]
Side oneNo. Title Lead vocals Length
1. "I Saw Her Standing There" McCartney 2:52
2. "Misery" Lennon and McCartney 1:47
3. "Anna (Go to Him)" (Arthur Alexander) Lennon 2:54
4. "Chains" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) Harrison 2:23
5. "Boys" (Luther Dixon, Wes Farrell) Starr 2:24
6. "Ask Me Why" Lennon 2:24
7. "Please Please Me" Lennon and McCartney 2:00
Total length: 16:44
Side twoNo. Title Lead vocals Length
1. "Love Me Do" McCartney and Lennon 2:19
2. "P.S. I Love You" McCartney 2:02
3. "Baby It's You" (Mack David, Barney Williams, Burt Bacharach) Lennon 2:35
4. "Do You Want to Know a Secret" Harrison 1:56
5. "A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) McCartney 2:01
6. "There's a Place" Lennon and McCartney 1:49
7. "Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell) Lennon 2:33
Total length: 15:15
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