Their first recording to be released in over six months was Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever, which broke their long run of consecutive UK number 1 hits, as it was kept off the top by Engelbert Humperdinck 's schmaltzy Release Me. Nevertheless, this landmark single brilliantly captured the...
the UK's Official Singles Chart with Now And Then, setting a new record for the longest time span between an artist's first and last Number 1. Now And Then reached the top of the Official Chart 60 years and 6 months after The Beatles' First Number 1 - From Me To You in May 1963...
Mar 27 Friday Beatles records are in the 6 first positions of the Australian ranking. Mar 27 Friday US single release: `Cry For A Shadow'/`Why (Can't You Love Me Again)'. Mar 28 Saturday `With The Beatles' number 1, 17th week (UK Record Retailer chart). `I Want To Hold Your...
The result is a visual run down of The Beatles’ number one records, as well as the additional tracks on the bonus disc of Beatles 1+ that show the band in previously unseen standards of clarity and quality; many of the films and videos have never before been commercially released, in wh...
. When Ringo's album reached the number one spot in the British charts last year, Lennon cabled Ringo, "Congratulations. How dare you? And please write me a hit song." Alone with the ex-Beatles. Lennon appears really keen to see the Beatles reincarnated on record. "I mean, I'm a Be...
Regarding Ringo's drums, this was the first time I was able to record his kit in stereo ...
Apart from her debut, Taylor Swift, released in 2006, all of Swift's albums have reached number one in the US. In the UK it was her fourth album, Red, that became her first chart-topper, and all others since have followed. Record sales ...
Wartime singerDame Vera Lynnhas beatenThe Beatlesto the top of the official UK album chart, making her the oldest living artist ever to have a Number One record. The 92-year-old’s hits collection,‘We’ll Meet Again’, went in at the top of the chart having first entered three weeks...
Starr had been in the Beatles for a few weeks when they recorded their first single, "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You," in September 1962. Both sides of the 45 were Lennon-McCartney originals, and the songwriting team would be credited with most of the group's material throughout the...
50 years on from their first UK hit, Love Me Do, here's the FIVE links between Swindon and the Fab Four... Connection 1: Sgt Pepper's Swindon's most famous actress, Diana Dors, appears very prominently on the cover of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (see picture). ...