The Beatles' Please Please Me album spent more weeks at no. 1 in the British album charts than any other album by a group (30 weeks at no. 1, this excludes albums by duos and soundtracks). 1963
John Lennon, remembering a Disney movie song his mother used to sing.
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" was the Beatles first number 1 hit in the US, and it was the number 1 hit for the year 1964. The Beatles songs "She Love You", "Can't Buy Me Love" "Lobe Me Do" A Hard Day's Night", and I Feel Fine" also made number 1 that year.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Magical Mystery Tour. (Magical Mystery Tour was issued in Britain as a double EP, and re-released ten years later on LP.)
Their first recording as the Beatles was in 1961, as Tony Sheridan's backing band for Germany's Polydor Records. Prior to that, they had made some home tapes with a borrowed recorder, and done one session at a home studio in Liverpool, where they covered Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day".
1964 was the first year the Beatles came to America. They also toured the country in 1965 and 1966.
In 1965, Yesterday was released on the Help! album in England. In the US, it was released as a single that same year.
1963.
1963 was the first big year of Beatlemania. The Beatles released two LPs (albums); "Please, Please Me" and "With The Beatles". 3 EPs; "Twist and Shout", "The Beatles' Hits" and "The Beatles (No. 1)" and 4 singles: "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why", "From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl", "She Loves You" / "I'll Get You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy". Note that these are UK releases; other countries - particular the USA released many "rehashed" albums - around 5 - in 1963.
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1965
Yes, around a year before.
In 1963.The Beatles' first single, Love Me Do, was released in 1962 and peaked at #17 in the UK.In 1963 their next single, Please Please Me, reached #1 in three of the four charts that were commonly referred to at that time, including the New Musical Express chart which was the most widely recognised one at that time.However it only reached #2 in the Record Retailer chart and it is that chart which is recognised by The Official UK Charts Company as well as by the standard reference book, The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles as the authoritative contemporary listing.The third single, From Me To You, did top the Record Retailer chart in 1963 so it's officially the Beatles' first indisputable number one hit single.
November 2006
The Beatles released no albums until 1963. They previously recorded single sides, some for Polydor in Germany during 1961, and an album-long audition tape for Decca on New Year's Day 1962. These were released years later as albums, outside the Beatles' control. Recordings of their last Hamburg engagement (New Year's Eve, 1962-63) also appeared later in album form.
'Michelle' was recorded in 1967
Let It Be was a single released by the Beatles on March 6, 1970. This song reached #1 on the US Hot 100 chart and Easy Listening chart, but only #2 on the UK singles chart.
Let It Be was a single released by The Beatles on March 6, 1970. This song reached #1 on the US Hot 100 chart and Easy Listening chart, but only #2 on the UK singles chart.