Please, Please Me went on sale

March 22, 1963
The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks.

Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” by Rolling Stone. In the US, most of the songs on Please Please Me were first issued on Vee-Jay Records’ Introducing… The Beatles in 1964 and subsequently on Capitol Records’ The Early Beatles in 1965.

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