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 ...

Once Please Please Me made it on the charts in England, it locked down the top spot for an incredible 30 weeks, per the Official Charts Company. The debut album lasted for 70 weeks on the charts. Sgt.

"Congratulations, gentlemen. You've just made your first No. 1." According to Beatles lore, those were the words spoken over the studio intercom by producer George Martin on Nov. 26, 1962, after they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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, ...

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 ...