The last notes of “Please Please Me” still hung in the stale air of EMI’s Studio Two on November 26th, 1962, when George Martin’s disembodied voice crackled over the talkback from the control room ...

How confident were the Beatles in what they had and how they played it when they entered EMI Studios in February 1963 to record their debut album, Please Please Me? So much so that they recorded ...

In the early days of The Beatles, the band was looking to release hit singles that would put them on the map. “Please Please Me” was their second hit, proving that the fab four were not a ...

Producer George Martin felt The Beatles’ “Please Please Me” needed to be changed in a major way. Martin discussed what he thought of the Fab Four during their early days. “Please Please Me” was a hit ...

Listening to it now, Please Please Me, The Beatles‘ initial album release in the United Kingdom, sounds like one of the first times a rock and roll act properly took advantage of the long-playing ...

Starting today, Brow Beat will follow the Beatles every week in “real time,” 50 years later, from their first chart-topper to their final rooftop concert. We begin with the Fab Four’s first No. 1 hit, ...

An original and extremely rare 1963 mono copy of the Beatles' ‘Please Please Me’ album, signed by the Fab Four, sold April 18 during an eBay auction for nearly $25,000. Finding a copy of their debut ...

As part of our new series Blogging the Beatles, we’ll be featuring occasional excerpts from Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head, a thrilling song-by-song history of the Beatles’ records which Slate ...

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Please Please Me, the debut album of the world's greatest rock n' roll band, The Beatles. With a half-century of history to pick from, we've come up ...

George Clooney Refused to Raise His Kids in Hollywood Because 'They Were Never Going to Get a Fair Shake at Life,' Moved to a Farm in France Where 'They Don't Give a S--- About Fame' ...

You gotta love a rock star knight and the way he asserts his supremacy without doing so at the expense of others. During their nineties heyday, Oasis routinely compared themselves to the Beatles and ...