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Album Review: Please Please Me

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The Beatles: Please Please Me announced

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As noted in this blog, I'll present you in the coming months, reviews the 13 Beatles studio albums. The reviews are mine.

We begin today with the Beatles debut album "Please Please Me .

album information

- Release Year: 1963
- Künstler: The Beatles
- Albumtitel: „ Please Please Me “
- Record Company: Parlophone Records/ EMI
- Single-Auskopplungen (UK): „ Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You “, „ Please Please Me / Ask me Why ”
- Single-Auskopplungen (US): “ Please Please Me / Ask Me Why ”, “ I Saw Her Standing There ” (B-Seite von “ I Want To Hold Your Hand ”), “ Please Please Me ” (mit der B-Seite “ From Me To You ”), " Twist And Shout / There's A Place ", " Do You Want To Know A Secret " (with the B-side " Thank You Girl "), " Love Me Do / PS I Love You "
- Since the U.S." Please Please Me "did not appear were the songs from Capitol Records / EMI on the two boards" Introducing ... The Beatles "(Version A 1963 - with the single" Love Me Do / PS I Love You "but without the single" Please Please Me / Ask Me Why ", Version B 1964 - with the single "Please Please Me / Ask Me Why" but without the single "Love Me Do / PS I Love You ") and "The Early Beatles " (1965) published .

Content:

1) "I Saw Her Standing There " (McCartney / Lennon)
2) " Misery" (McCartney / Lennon)
3) " Anna (Go To Him ) "(Alexander)
4)" Chains "(Goffin / King)
5)" Boys "(Dixon / Farrell)
6.) “ Ask Me Why ” (McCartney/ Lennon)
7.) “ Please Please Me ” (McCartney/ Lennon)
8.) “ Love Me Do ” (McCartney/ Lennon)
9.) “ P.S. I Love You ” (McCartney/ Lennon)
10.) “ Baby It’s You ” (David/ Williams/ Bacharach)
11.) “ Do You Want To Know A Secret ” (McCartney/ Lennon)
12.) “ A Taste Of Honey ” (Scott/ Marlow)
13.) “ There’s A Place ” (McCartney/ Lennon)
14.) “ Twist And publish shout "(Medley / Russell)

criticism

When the Beatles" Please Please Me "in March 1963, nobody could have guessed that the most important and wegweisenste band of rock and Pop history, had presented her debut.

In the run were the two singles " Love Me Do / PS I Love You " and " Please Please Me / Ask Me Why " was published, both by the author team John Lennon / Paul McCartney had been written .

On this debut album, the title still appeared under the symbol McCartney / Lennon - this should change as the successor "With The Beatles " which was published in November 1963. From then on, should the team of authors Lennon / McCartney hot and go down in history books. been

After the Beatles of George Martin that should help shape than the producer Beatles sound crucial, offered after audition in autumn 1962, a record contract, they met to receive the debut single.

As Ringo Starr could not convince the producers, this was the final recording session at a studio musician, Alan White, on drums. In a later session, the song was once played with Ringo Starr on drums. Which version appeared finally is controversial to this day even among fans.

Also " PS I Love You " was made with Alan White on drums - and Ringo Starr on tambourine and the maracas.

" Love Me Do" is influenced primarily by John Lennon harmonica (also in ' Please Please Me "takes a leading role). A 17th place was the debut single in England in it.

The B-side "PS I Love You " proved already in this early phase of the band, what skills ballads Schreiber Paul McCartney was .

The first number 1 of the Beatles should be their second single "Please Please Me . Here, too, was added an impressive ballad "Ask Me Why .

The debut album needed in addition to the four already completed and published songs for 10 more songs (it was at that time in England customary to publish to 14 songs on one album).

On 11 February 1963 was recorded the album in 12 hours, virtually live in the Abbey Road Studios . Actually George Martin had intended to include the entire album live in the Cavern Club .

The pieces by the Beatles lectured on their debut was also their usual repertoire Live from the Cavern Club .

was chosen for 8 originals and 6 covers.

The highlights of the album were, in addition to the singles "Love Me Do / PS I Love You "And" Please Please Me / Ask Me Why "clearly the McCartney / Lennon number" I Saw Her Standing There "that should be the opener of the plate, and the culmination of debut work " Twist And Shout " by Medley and Russell .

Both songs are pure rock 'n' roll and show that both Paul McCartney (song singer of "I Saw Her Standing There ") and John Lennon (song by singer " Twist And Shout ") good Rock singer were.

" Twist And Shout " invited by John Lennon voice so much from which it was attached to the end of the recording day. Had to sit in one take everything. can

addition, "I Saw Her Standing There " - that one of the first joint works Lennon / McCartney was (and also showed the influence of John Lennon's on Paul McCartney's Texterei - because McCartney had " She was just 17, never been a beauty queen ... " written and Lennon's influence made it "She was just 17, you know what I mean ... ) - arguable.

How much Lennon " I Saw Her Standing There " estimated, although he was not the song singer, was when he the song on his last live performance in winter 1974 to the stage with Elton John , in Madison Square Garden in New York , once again performed. (See especially, the influence of "Alice in Wonderland

" to be later below)
also Lennon's penchant for fairy tales and mythical stories is even at this early stage of the creative creative Band appreciably.

" Do You Want To Know A Secret " is inspired by Snow White . Lennon's mother Julia had always the song "Wishing Well " sung from the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs " from the cradle and the statement so rooted deeply in it.

Both Lennon affinity for fairy tales and the fixation on his mother, should forms in later periods of the Beatles (and also in Lennon's solo works) further show here already beginning to bear fruit.

was however left to the song ultimately George Harrison as a singer who can be from this song one of the most sentimental and most of the album.

In There's A Place "shows Lennon a first time, where he retires, if he is dissatisfied with the world: in his head. Later he was to return with such images, particularly from the "Revolver " time. But shows at this early artistic phase Lennon that he was more than just a rock singer, who recited a few love songs.

All in particular, outweigh the Lennon / McCartney songs and also the quality of their recordings is better than the cover versions.

Only " Misery" comes close not quite reach the quality of the other original compositions. Actually written for Helen Shapiro , took the Beatles the number on even after they had rejected the song.

takes Besides these songs Harrison voice in the song "Chains " and Ringo Starr allowed to " Boys" to the mike.

In "A Taste of Honey "was McCartney's doubled voice and it appears the song, despite the rush there was, after all, they took on a whole album in one day that the Beatles also were playing here and always willing to experiment outside the box watch out - a characteristic that only 2 ½ years later, move on "Rubber Soul " to new heights.

" Anna (Go To Him) " faded like "Misery " a little against the strong points of the album, while "Baby It's You " completely in their own songs incorporates.

Besides these songs actually have " How Do You Do It? Date "by Murray and the original composition" Hold Me Tight "was, but found no use.
" How Do You Do It? "was produced by George Martin as an alternative to" Please Please Me "as the second single taken to the race because he was not convinced as the producer of the second single. The Beatles recorded the song on - they said they vehemently opposed it. In the end you worked so long on "Please Please Me " until Martin disagreed.

" How Do You Do It? "was written by the Beatles never published (for fans was the first recording with the release of" Anthology 1 "audible) but was at last a No. 1 on the UK charts for Gerry and the Peacemakers .

"Hold Me Tight " had not wanted to get finished and rejected like the song during the 12-hour session. He was later taken up again in the same year and on the following album "With The Beatles published.

The debut album by the Beatles - the 2003 No. 39 of the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine reached were available, - is a strong beginning, a rock 'n' roll album ("I Saw Her Standing There "," Twist And Shout "), which also sentimental and sensitive songs (" Do You Want To Know A Secret "," PS I Love You ") and forward-looking elements (" There's A Place "," A Taste Of Honey come up ") can.

A successful first works, certainly by the creativity, the band developed especially 1965-1968, is not among the best in the band, but just out of the historical background is perfectly out of styles and music.

to recommend the album all Beatles fans and all those who the Beatles want to know when the band they were when they were discovered.

Listen to: "I Saw Her Standing There ", "Twist And Shout ", " Do You Want To Know A Secret ", "Please Please Me " " PS I Love You "

Midfielders: " Chains, "" Misery "