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The Beatles are the first band I ever remember listening to. I was around 3 years old when I started obsessively listening to the 1962-1966 compilation known as the Red Album – the only Beatles CD we had at home, in addition to a John Lennon compilation CD.
On this page, you will find information as well as my own thoughts, experiences and opinions on various Beatles-related stuff. I am always discovering new things, so this page is always a work in progress. Though the band was only active for a decade, there's a lifetime of material to enjoy.

The Beatles albums

Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. I Saw Her Standing There - McCartney-LennonMcCartney
  2. Misery - McCartney-LennonLennon & McCartney
  3. Anna (Go to Him) - cover (Arthur Alexander)Lennon
  4. Chains - cover (Gerry Goffin, Carole King)Harrison
  5. Boys - cover (Luther Dixon, Wes Farrell)Starr
  6. Ask Me Why - McCartney-LennonLennon
  7. Please Please Me - McCartney-LennonLennon & McCartney
  8. Love Me Do - McCartney-LennonMcCartney & Lennon
  9. P.S. I Love You - McCartney-LennonMcCartney
  10. Baby It's You - cover (Mack David, Barney Williams, Burt Bacharach)Lennon
  11. Do You Want to Know a Secret - McCartney-LennonHarrison
  12. Taste of Honey - cover (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow)McCartney
  13. There's a Place - McCartney-LennonLennon & McCartney
  14. Twist and Shout - cover (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)Lennon

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Each album traditionally has at least one song with vocals from George and one with vocals from Ringo. Ringo's one in this one is 'Boys', a song originally written for the Shirelles with lyrics like 'Well, I talk about boys (yeah, yeah, boys)'. I just think that's neat. According to Paul, they never considered any homosexual implications to Ringo singing a song about boys. George was given an original song by Paul and John, 'Do You Want to Know a Secret'.

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The last song they recorded was a cover of 'Twist and Shout' with vocals from John, who said it nearly killed him. It's a good thing they left it for last, because it apparently took a while for his voice to recover afterwards.

Title: Please Please Me
First released: 22 March 1963
Favourites: 'Please Please Me', 'Baby It's You', 'There's a Place', 'Twist and Shout'

About the album: The Beatles were formed around 1960 (the lineup changed a few times) and spent their first years performing at bars in Liverpool and Hamburg. They mostly performed covers, but John and Paul had also started writing their own songs together. Since they were popular in the local scene, local music store manager Brian Epstein approached them and offered to manage them. He signed the group with EMI, and they released their first single 'Love Me Do' Fun fact: When they first signed with EMI, their drummer was Pete Best. They weren't able to get any suitable recordings with Best, so the label insisted on using a session drummer instead. The Beatles instead dropped Pete Best and poached the best drummer in Liverpool from the band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, the man we know and love as Ringo Starr. Ringo plays the drums on the original recording for their first single 'Love Me Do'. However, a week later when they were recording the album/US single version, session drummer Andy White had been hired. There's conflicting information on why or what exactly happened, but in the end, the single version of 'Love Me Do' features Ringo on drums, while the album version features Andy White on drums – Ringo was instead delegated to tambourine duty. The single version doesn't feature tambourines, so that's how you can tell whether you're listening to the version with Ringo on drums or Andy on drums.
There's also a third version of the song with Pete Best on drums, from their first recording session three months earlier. This version can only be found in the Anthology 1 compilation. in October 1962. It reached number 17 in the official UK singles chart.
Their second single, 'Please Please Me', was released in January and came 2nd place in the official UK chart, 1st place in multiple others. This led to the recording of their first studio album, named after the single.
Other than the singles and b-sides they had already released, the album was recorded in one day of three three-hour sessions, on 11 February 1963. John came with a bad cold and a steady supply of throat lozenges.
The songs were a mix of covers and originals, all taken from the sets they would regularly play live. Since they were already so familiar with the songs, they were able to record them all with relatively few takes and little rehearsing.
Back then, it was unusual for a band to sing original music on their first album; groups would gain popularity singing covers, and then would mostly get music written for them by professional songwriters. The Beatles were among the earliest "self-contained rock bands", in which the band does both the songwriting and the performing.
The album stayed in the Top 10 in the UK for over a year.

Read more on Wikipedia

My thoughts: This is a fun lil album and I love the story of them recording it all in one day, one of their main vocalists dying of a cold, barely rehearsing anything and knocking everyone's socks off. 'Please Please Me' is an iconic single with its harmonica intro and the double entendre in the title.
The first line of this entire album is famously... questionable: 'Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean'. Paul wrote this about his own girlfriend at the time, when he himself was twenty. It was the 60s, ok? It's still one of the catchiest songs on the album, along with 'Twist and Shout' (I am forever impressed with John's vocals in this one, knowing how he must have been feeling at that point).
Also, this is one of my favourite album cover photos!! They look so young and innocent with no idea what is ahead of them...

UK | AUS

Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. It Won't Be Long - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  2. All I've Got To Do - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  3. All My Loving - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  4. Don't Bother Me - HarrisonHarrison
  5. Little Child - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  6. Till There Was You - cover (Meredith Willson)McCartney
  7. Please Mr Postman - cover (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman)Lennon
  8. Roll Over Beethoven - cover (Chuck Berry)Harrison
  9. Hold Me Tight - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  10. You Really Got a Hold on Me - cover (Smokey Robinson)Lennon
  11. I Wanna Be Your Man - Lennon-McCartneyStarr
  12. Devil in Her Heart - cover (Richard Drapkin)Harrison
  13. Not a Second Time - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  14. Money (That's What I Want) - cover (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy)Lennon

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The Australian cover was designed without the Beatles' knowledge or input. They first saw it when they were touring Australia in 1964 and they were not happy...

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'Don't Bother Me' was the first song written by George that made it onto an album, but he also has joint credit on the first song recorded by the Quarrymen (the proto-Beatles) in 1958, in which Paul wrote the lyrics and George came up with the guitar solo. It's a song I really like so I just wanted an excuse to shout it out: it's called 'In Spite of All the Danger'. They originally only had one copy made which the band members at the time shared, until in 1981, Paul got a hold of it again, had the sound quality restored and made more copies to gift to family and friends. It wasn't released to the public until 1995 in the compilation album Anthology 1. That single original copy of the first ever record made with 3 out of 4 Beatles (along with pianist John Lowe and drummer Colin Hanton) is considered to be one of the most valuable records in existence.

Title: With the Beatles
First released: 22 November 1963
Favourites: 'It Won't Be Long', 'Don't Bother Me', 'Please Mister Postman'

About the album: Bands were expected to release more than one LP per year in the early 60s, so work on the Beatles' second album began soon after the first.
The Beatles were back in the studio four months after the release of Please Please Me, and recorded With the Beatles in seven sessions that spanned three months. Like the first one, this was a mix of covers and original songs. They had a lot of material to work with, and even George had an original song to offer, titled 'Don't Bother Me'.
Paul decided the cover of the first album was "crap", so they took artistic control over this one. They asked the photographer, Robert Freeman, to take inspiration from photos their friend Astrid Kirchher had taken of them in Hamburg. The photos were taken in a dark hotel corridor and put together to fit the square format, with Ringo at the bottom because "he was the last to join the group. He was also the shortest". Their original idea had been to have the image span the whole cover, but the idea was vetoed by their label (the first edge-to-edge cover was done by The Rolling Stones 5 months later). The label also didn't like the fact they weren't smiling, but their producer managed to convince them to accept the photos anyway. The end result was an unconventional pop album cover that influenced the genre and inspired many others to think outside the (relatively narrow) box at the time.

With the Beatles was their first album released in North America. Canada got the album under the name Beatlemania! With the Beatles, while in the United States, the songs from the album were split among other songs on their first two USA-released albums, which came out a few months apart in early 1964.
It was the second ever album to sell a million copies in the UK, after the 1958 South Pacific soundtrack. The new album took over the top spot in the UK charts from their first album – in total, the Beatles occupied the number 1 spot for 51 weeks in a row with their first two albums, a record that, again, has only been beat by the South Pacific soundtrack (what even is that?).
In addition to the album, they released three non-album singles (each with b-sides) in 1963 as well: 'From Me to You', 'She Loves You' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'. 'From Me to You' was the group's first number 1 hit in the official UK charts, and the first of eleven consecutive number 1 singles by the band. 'She Loves You' was the UK's top-selling single of the 1960s and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was their first one to go number 1 in the US, and is their best-selling single worldwide. These singles were really the songs that made Beatlemania a global phenomenon. 'She Loves You' was especially impactful to culture in general – the "yeah yeah yeah"s in the chorus became a catch-phrase for the Beatles and then pop in general. The British establishment found the song controversial, and "in some quarters it was seen to hail the collapse of civilised society". Read more about the cultural impact of the song on Wikipedia.

'I Want to Hold Your Hand' starts one of the Beatles' most impressive records: in the span of a year, the Beatles held the number 1 spot in US singles' charts with 7 different songs 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', 'She Loves You', 'Can't Buy Me Love', 'Love Me Do', 'A Hard Day's Night', 'I Feel Fine' and 'Eight Days A Week'. . I could go on about all the chart records they broke, but you can read more about it in this Billboard article. Why even care? I think looking at the chart performance of the Beatles, especially during this era, paints such a clear picture of just how crazy Beatlemania was – sometimes people try to downplay their impact and I'm like, do you even realise this is pretty much the most sold and listened to band in history? That they still hold multiple records sixty years later? The numbers don't lie!!
I got overwhelmed with how much information there is to share about this album so I will leave you with another Wikipedia starting point if you feel inspired to dive deeper.

My thoughts: There are honestly so many bangers in this album it's hard to choose favourites. You can really hear that they've evolved a lot since Please Please Me. The only song I don't like is 'Little Child', which just... what were they doing? (Writing a filler song originally meant for Ringo to sing lol. Thankfully they realised Ringo deserves better and gave him 'I Wanna Be Your Man' instead, which is really fun)

Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. A Hard Day's Night - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  2. I Should Have Known Better - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  3. If I Fell - Lennon-McCartneyLennon & McCartney
  4. I'm Happy Just to Dance with You - Lennon-McCartneyHarrison
  5. And I Love Her - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. Tell Me Why - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  7. Can't Buy Me Love - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  8. Any Time at All - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  9. I'll Cry Instead - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  10. Things We Said Today - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  11. When I Get Home - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  12. You Can't Do That - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  13. I'll Be Back - Lennon-McCartneyLennon

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Title: A Hard Day's Night
First released: 10 July 1964
Favourites: coming soon
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. No Reply - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  2. I'm a Loser - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  3. Baby's in Black - Lennon-McCartneyLennon & McCartney
  4. Rock and Roll Music - cover (Chuck Berry)Lennon
  5. I'll Follow the Sun - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. Mr Moonlight - cover (Roy Lee Johnson)Lennon
  7. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! - cover (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller/Richard Penniman)McCartney
  8. Eight Days a Week - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  9. Words of Love - cover (Buddy Holly)Lennon, McCartney & Harrison
  10. Honey Don't - cover (Carl Perkins)Starr
  11. Every Little Thing - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  12. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  13. What You're Doing - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  14. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby - cover (Carl Perkins)Harrison

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Title: Beatles for Sale
First released: 4 December 1964
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Help! - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  2. The Night Before - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  3. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  4. I Need You - HarrisonHarrison
  5. Another Girl - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. You're Going to Lose that Girl - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  7. Ticket to Ride - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  8. Act Naturally - cover (Johnny Russell)Starr
  9. It's Only Love - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  10. You Like Me Too Much - HarrisonHarrison
  11. Tell Me What You See - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  12. I've Just Seen a Face - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  13. Yesterday - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy - cover (Larry Williams)Lennon

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Title: Help!
First released: 6 August 1965
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Drive My Car - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  3. You Won't See Me - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  4. Nowhere Man - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  5. Think for Yourself - HarrisonHarrison
  6. The Word - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  7. Michelle - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  8. What Goes On - Lennon-McCartney & StarrStarr
  9. Girl - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  10. I'm Looking Through You - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  11. In My Life - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  12. Wait - Lennon-McCartneyLennon & McCartney
  13. If I Needed Someone - HarrisonHarrison
  14. Run for Your Life - Lennon-McCartneyLennon

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Title: Rubber Soul
First released: 3 December 1965
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Taxman - HarrisonHarrison
  2. Eleanor Rigby - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  3. I'm Only Sleeping - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  4. Love You To - HarrisonHarrison
  5. Here, There and Everywhere - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. Yellow Submarine - Lennon-McCartneyStarr
  7. She Said She Said - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  8. Good Day Sunshine - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  9. And Your Bird Can Sing - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  10. For No One - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  11. Doctor Robert - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  12. I Want to Tell You - HarrisonHarrison
  13. Got to Get You into My Life - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  14. Tomorrow Never Knows - Lennon-McCartneyLennon

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Title: Revolver
First released: 5 August 1966
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  2. With a Little Help from My Friends - Lennon-McCartneyStarr
  3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  4. Getting Better - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  5. Fixing a Hole - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. She's Leaving Home - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  7. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  8. Within You Without You - HarrisonHarrison
  9. When I'm Sixty-Four - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  10. Lovely Rita - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  11. Good Morning Good Morning - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - Lennon-McCartneyLennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starr
  13. A Day in the Life - Lennon-McCartneyLennon

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Title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
First released: 26 May 1967
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Magical Mystery Tour - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  2. The Fool on the Hill - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  3. Flying - Harrison–Lennon–McCartney–Starr(instrumental)
  4. Blue Jay Way - HarrisonHarrison
  5. Your Mother Should Know - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. I Am the Walrus - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  7. Hello, Goodbye - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  8. Strawberry Fields Forever - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  9. Penny Lane - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  10. Baby, You're a Rich Man - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  11. All You Need Is Love - Lennon-McCartneyLennon

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Title: Magical Mystery Tour
First released: 27 November 1967
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Back in the U.S.S.R. - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  2. Dear Prudence - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  3. Glass Onion - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  5. Wild Honey Pie - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  6. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - HarrisonHarrison
  8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  9. Martha My Dear - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  10. I'm So Tired - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  11. Blackbird - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  12. Piggies - HarrisonHarrison
  13. Rocky Raccoon - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  14. Don't Pass Me By - StarrStarr
  15. Why Don't We Do It in the Road? - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  16. I Will - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  17. Julia - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  18. Birthday - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  19. Yer Blues - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  20. Mother Nature's Son - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  21. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - LennonLennon
  22. Sexy Sadie - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  23. Helter Skelter - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  24. Long, Long, Long - HarrisonHarrison
  25. Revolution 1 - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  26. Honey Pie - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  27. Savoy Truffle - HarrisonHarrison
  28. Cry Baby Cry - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  29. Revolution 9 - Lennon-McCartneyLennon, Harrison, Yoko Ono, George Martin
  30. Good Night - Lennon-McCartneyStarr

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Title: The Beatles (commonly referred to as The White Album)
First released: 22 November 1968
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Yellow Submarine - Lennon-McCartneyStarr
  2. Only a Northern Song - HarrisonHarrison
  3. All Together Now - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  4. Hey Bulldog - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  5. It's All Too Much - HarrisonHarrison
  6. All You Need Is Love - Lennon-McCartneyLennon

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Title: Yellow Submarine
First released: 17 January 1969
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Come Together - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  2. Something - HarrisonHarrison
  3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  4. Oh! Darling - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  5. Octopus's Garden - StarrStarr
  6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  7. Here Comes the Sun - HarrisonHarrison
  8. Because - Lennon-McCartneyLennon, McCartney & Harrison
  9. You Never Give Me Your Money - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  10. Sun King - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  11. Mean Mr. Mustard - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  12. Polythene Pam - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  13. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  14. Golden Slumbers - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  15. Carry That Weight - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  16. The End - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  17. Her Majesty (hidden track) - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney

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Title: Abbey Road
First released: 26 September 1969
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Tracklist songwriter | lead vocals

  1. Two of Us - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney & Lennon
  2. Dig a Pony - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  3. Across the Universe - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  4. I Me Mine - HarrisonHarrison
  5. Dig It - Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, StarrLennon
  6. Let It Be - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  7. Maggie Mae - traditional Liverpool folk songLennon & McCartney
  8. I've Got a Feeling - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney & Lennon
  9. One After 909 - Lennon-McCartneyLennon
  10. The Long and Winding Road - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney
  11. For You Blue - HarrisonHarrison
  12. Get Back - Lennon-McCartneyMcCartney

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Title: Let It Be
First released: 8 May 1970
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Favourite solo albums

Title: RAM
First released: 17 May 1971
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Title: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
First released: 11 December 1970
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The Beatles films

Title: A Hard Day's Night
First released: 6 July 1964
Director: Richard Lester
About the film: coming soon
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Title: Help!
First released: 29 July 1965
Director: Richard Lester
About the film: coming soon
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Title: Magical Mystery Tour
First released: 26 December 1967
Director: The Beatles
About the film: coming soon
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Title: Yellow Submarine
First released: 17 July 1968
Director: George Dunning
About the film: coming soon
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Title: Let It Be
First released: 13 May 1970
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
About the film: coming soon
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Films/series about The Beatles

Title: The Beatles Anthology
First released: November-December 1995
Most recent release: 26 November 2025
Director: Geoff Wonfor and Bob Smeaton
About the film: coming soon
My thoughts: coming soon

Title: Yesterday
First released: 4 May 2019
Director: Danny Boyle
About the film: coming soon
My thoughts: coming soon

Title: Nowhere Boy
First released: 29 October 2009
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
About the film: coming soon
My thoughts: coming soon

Books about The Beatles

Title: One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Published: 10 April 2020
Author: Craig Brown
About the book: This book talks about the lives and careers of The Beatles from start to finish, with lots of little-known stories added in. The author also dives into fandom culture at the time, as well as just 1960s society and the influence of The Beatles in general. The author also narrates his own Beatles tourism in Liverpool.
My thoughts: This was a really fun read and I learnt a lot! He talks a lot about the broader cultural impact of The Beatles in the 60s which was really interesting. I especially loved learning about how The Beatles challenged gender norms at the time, which I had never thought about before – all those interviewers joking about them needing a haircut suddenly made a lot more sense when I realised just how gender non-conforming their haircuts were considered at the time.

Other Beatles content

Youtube handle: @ElliotRobertsVideos
Favourite videos: Every Ringo Starr Album Ranked Worst to Best, Every Paul McCartney Album Ranked Worst to Best
Notes: I kind of famously hate videos but I will watch anything this man posts about The Beatles. Thank you Elliot Roberts.

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