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 ...

Paul McCartney said The Beatles‘ “Please Please Me” was inspired by an American rock ‘n’ roll star. Paul said the song was originally slower to mimic that star’s style. Subsequently, The Beatles’ ...

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 ...

Journey with us through seven years of astonishing sonic experimentation, as we rank the 13 Beatles studio albums ...

For more 50 th anniversary Beatles coverage, read Blogging the Beatles. Today is the 50 th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me. To mark the occasion, we’ve rounded ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

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 ...

Since 1960, the Beatles—four fabulous lads from Liverpool, England—have remained the greatest rock and roll band in the history of music. How John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo ...

Shop manager Jaime-Marie Madden, who works at a Cancer Research UK charity shop in Enfield, north London, found the record, which she initially thought to be worth a few hundred pounds. The vinyl was ...