Please Please Me Tracklist
Recorded largely in a single day and released by Parlophone on 22nd March 1963, Please Please Me was the first of the twelve official UK album releases by The Beatles. It was recorded in a rushed fashion after debut single “Love Me Do” had reached a high of #17 on the UK chart the previous October.
Some songs were fully captured in a single live take, and the album features very few overdubs. This is in keeping with the band’s raw live sound that had built them a reputation in local Liverpool nightspots like The Cavern Club.
It is, of course, a highly influential rock album, containing several rock and roll standards and beginning the then unusual trend of bands writing their own material.
All original songs were credited to “McCartney-Lennon”; the more familiar “Lennon-McCartney” became a staple with their second album – With the Beatles.
