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Album – PLEASE PLEASE ME (The Beatles)
March 22, 2022
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Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin, it was released on EMI’s Parlophone label on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom, following the success of the band’s first two singles “Love Me Do”, which reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, and “Please Please Me” which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts.
The album topped Record Retailer’s LP chart for 30 weeks, an unprecedented achievement for a pop album at that time.
The Beatles recorded the majority of Please Please Me in one long recording session at EMI Studios on 11 February 1963.
In 2012, Please Please Me was voted 39th on Rolling Stone’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.
It was voted number 622 in the third edition of Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000)
