Released in March 1963, Please Please Me was the first of eleven consecutive Beatles albums released in the United Kingdom to reach number one.
On 11 February 1963, the Beatles recorded ten songs during a single studio session for their debut LP, Please Please Me .
the settled line-up of Jagger, Jones, Richards, Stewart, Wyman, and Watts played their first gig on 2 February 1963, again at the Ealing Jazz Club.
Neil Young and Stephen Stills met in 1965 at the Fourth Dimension in Thunder Bay , Ontario. Young was there with the Squires , a Winnipeg group he had been leading since February 1963, and Stills was on tour with the Company , a spin-off from the Au Go Go…
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Their acting manager, Giorgio Gomelsky , secured a Sunday afternoon residency at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London , in February 1963.
first played with the band on Saturday, 12 January 1963 at the Ealing Jazz Club
In a reversal of then standard practice, EMI released the album ahead of the impending single ” I Want to Hold Your Hand “, with the song excluded to maximise the single’s sales. The album caught the attention of music critic William Mann of The Times , who suggested that…
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EMI’s American subsidiary, Capitol Records , hindered the Beatles’ releases in the United States for more than a year by initially declining to issue their music, including their first three singles. Concurrent negotiations with the independent US label Vee-Jay led to the release of some, but not all, of the…
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the Beatlemania phenomenon of 1963
In January 1963, the Beach Boys recorded their first top-ten single, ” Surfin’ U.S.A. “, which began their long run of highly successful recording efforts. It was during the sessions for this single that Brian made the production decision from that point on to use double tracking on the group’s…
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