Category: Rock

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The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night

I’ve talked a lot about the various combinations and iterations that the early Beatles albums took, different songs under different titles on different sides of the Atlantic. The Beatles exploded in America with their...

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The Beatles – All My Loving (EP)

Well, this was bound to happen. Four Beatles records into my collection, and I realize 1) that I’ve missed something, and 2) that I’m very close to having to go out of order. Staring...

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The Beatles – Twist and Shout

Well, whaddaya know. Remember how I didn’t think I owned “Please Please Me”? Well, somewhere along the way in the early ’80s, I ran across a 1971 reissue of “Twist and Shout,” the second...

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The Beatles – Meet The Beatles!

“Meet The Beatles!” was released Jan. 20, 1964. That was just 20 days before their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Vee-Jay album “Introducing… The Beatles (Vee-Jay’s version of “Please Please Me”)” was...

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The Beatles – With The Beatles

Unlike anything that was going on in the record biz in the ’70s, becoming a Beatles fan meant realizing that their albums were released one way in the UK, then (for reasons never revealed)...

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The Beatles – Please Please Me

I started working on The Beatles entries thinking that I didn’t own their very first album, “Please Please Me,” released in the UK (not the US) on March 22, 1963. I also don’t own...

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Prelude to The Beatles

The Beatles present a particular challenge for presenting in any sort of order. On my shelf, the albums sit chronologically, but that has no relation to how I experienced them, coming to The Beatles...