The Beatles have been named, collectively, as among the 20th Century’s most influential people.ġ9. There are around seventy famous, and not so famous, people on the cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band including, Aleister Crowley, Mae West, Carl Jung, Edgar Allen Poe, Bob Dylan, Stuart Sutcliffe, Aldous Huxley, Marilyn Monroe, Laurel and Hardy, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich and Diana Dors.ġ8. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band established the trend for artists to include their lyrics within the LP’s design.ġ7. It took 129 days and 400 hours of studio time to record and complete Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.ġ6. After recording Love Me Do, P S I Love You, Please Please Me and Ask Me Why in 1962, the remaining 10 tracks for The Beatles first album, Please Please Me, took just ten hours to record.ġ5. The mono mix of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is a semitone lower, than the stereo version and therefore slightly slower.ġ4. A Hard Day’s Night is the first album entirely written by the Beatles – all thirteen tracks are by Lennon & McCartney.ġ3. The Beatles had eight No.1 hits in Zimbabwe and Switzerland, but only two in Ethiopia.ġ2. ‘Strawberry Fields’ refers to a Salvation Army home near to where John lived in Woolton, Liverpool, except that the place has no ‘s’ on the end it is Strawberry Field.ġ1. August 20th 1969 was the last time that all four Beatles recorded together, they finished on ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy’).ĥ. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a close second followed by the White Album.Ĥ. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the album selling the most copies in the United States is Abbey Road. All other albums up to and including Yellow Submarine in January 1969 were issued in stereo and mono simultaneously.ģ. ![]() The stereo version was released in late April. In the UK, the mono version of the Please Please Me album was rush-released by EMI on March 22nd 1963. One week later, they still had three discs in the top 5 and a further 11 slots within the Hot 100.Ģ. They also had another seven positions lower down the chart. ![]() ![]() For the week ending April 4th 1964, The Beatles held the top 5 slots of the Billboard Hot 100.
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