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 ...

Beatles historians are fond of pointing out that Martin and/or the Beatles often weren’t present when the stereo versions of their first 10 albums - “Please Please Me” in 1963 through the double-LP ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coming into that day, the Beatles already had two singles under their belts. In October 1962, they released “Love Me Do,” the bluesy vamp that McCartney had first dreamed up while playing hooky from ...

The Stereophonics and Mick Hucknall are among the artists lined up to make "Please Please Me" at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios. By Stuart Kemp The Liverpool quartet known as The Beatles were not ...

The Beatles are larger than life today, and it’s wild to think that the Fab Four from Liverpool ever had difficult beginnings. However, they were no different than any other ragtag group of musicians ...

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 ...