Julie Bender
1964 was a banner year for The Beatles in the U.S. (and all around the world), even by the band’s own ‘toppermost of the poppermost’ standards. The Beatles racked up 17 U.S. Top 40 singles including six Number 1s, six Top 10 albums including four Number 1s, and a blockbuster...
In 1970, solo albums of all Beatles members were released. Three Beatles members, Starr, Harrison and Lennon, came together as part of Ringo Starr’s 1973 album Ringo. Other songs on the album also featured McCartney. After this album, rumors began that the Beatles would reunite. John Lennon...
and they didn’t record their first album,Please Please Me, until 1963. By the time they called it quits amid intra-band tension in 1970, the Beatles had released 12 studio albums (each of them critical and commercial successes; each one successively evolving and expanding ...
Features Every act to claim two UK Number 1 albums in a single year Features Every artist who has scored the Official UK Chart double Lists Artists with the most Number 1 singles on the UK chart More THE BEATLES news THE BEATLES Hits Official Singles Chart 17 Oct 1962 LOVE ME DOTHE ...
Striking out on his own in 1994, he released five albums of gorgeous, introspective Beatlesesque pop … Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times, 3 June 2007Word History First Known Use 1964, in the meaning defined above Time Traveler The first known use of Beatlesque was in 1964 See more words...
Between riotous international tours in 1964 and 1965, the Beatles continued to squeeze out more chart-topping albums and singles. (Until 1967, the group's British albums were often truncated for release in the States; when their catalog was transferred to CD, the albums were released worldwide...
(think the Foo Fighters, The White Stripes, orThe Doors as recently as last year for RSD). However, they represent a limited formatThe Beatleshave not yet embraced, making them a bit like those cards from last year containingspecial editions of theRedandBluealbumsfor kids to play on their...
, and Yellow Submarine quasi-soundtrack albums. The so-called “White Album,” The Beatles, was a two-record set. There was also a flurry of non-album singles throughout those years, collected in different ways in the U.K. and the U.S. EMI also released a number of four-song EPs ...
The next few years would be prolific, as the Beatles proceeded to change the course of popular music. The group released eight albums, four of which -Revolver(1966),Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band(1967),The White Album(1968) andAbbey Road(1969) - rank among the greatest in rock...