The Beatles

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#OTD in 1963 the mono version of the LP `Please Please Me' was released in the UK. ⁠ ⁠ "That record tried to capture us live and was the nearest thing to what we might have sounded like to the audiences in Hamburg and Liverpool. Still, you don’t get that live atmosphere of the crowd stomping on the beat with you; but it’s the nearest you can get to knowing what we sounded like before we became the ‘clever’ Beatles." - John ⁠ ⁠ #TheBeatles #1960s ⁠ ⁠ @johnlennon @paulmccartney @georgeharrisonofficial @ringostarrmusic ⁠ ⁠ Photos © Apple Corps Ltd.
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#OTD in 1964, the UK single of `Can't Buy Me Love'/`You Can't Do That' was released. This is the cover of the French version of the single. Have you ever listened to 'You Can't Do That'? ⁠ ⁠ #TheBeatles #1960s ⁠ ⁠ Photo © Apple Corps Ltd.
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“All I’m interested in is the sound. I like it to be whatever happens.” - John ⁠ ⁠ #TheBeatles #1960s ⁠ ⁠ Photo © Apple Corps Ltd.
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“We could be warm, beneath the storm” - Ringo explains the inspiration behind his song, Octopus’s Garden. ⁠ ⁠ @ringostarrmusic @paulmccartney @johnlennon @georgeharrisonofficial ⁠ ⁠ #TheBeatles #1960s #BehindTheSong⁠ Video © Apple Corps Ltd.
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Have you done a cover version of a Beatles track from 1963 or 1964 that you’ve added your own creative twist to? If so, we’d love to watch a video of it! Tag it #coverthebeatles so we can find it. Include in your video why this song is meaningful to you and why you wanted to make it your own!
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“In the sixties people were trying things and you know I don’t think people minded if ideas were different. You could still put them together somehow, in the clothing, and the music and everything, you could sort of do that then. And I think if you get it right you can always do that.” - Paul ⁠ ⁠ @paulmccartney @johnlennon @georgeharrisonofficial @ringostarrmusic ⁠ ⁠ #TheBeatles #1960s ⁠ Video © Apple Corps Ltd.
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“I don’t know whether poets think they have to experience things to write about them, but I can tell you our songs are nearly all imagination - 90% imagination. I don’t think Beethoven was in a really wicked mood all the time.” - Paul ⁠ ⁠ #TheBeatles #1960s ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Photo © Apple Corps Ltd.
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#OTD in 1964, freshly back from their historical first visit to the USA, The Beatles start shooting for A Hard Day's Night. "We were the sons of the Goon Show. We were of an age. We were the extension of that rebellion, in a way." - John ⁠ ⁠ @johnlennon @paulmccartney @georgeharrisonofficial @ringostarrmusic ⁠ ⁠ Photos © Apple Corps Ltd.
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#OTD in 1965, Beatles For Sale is No. 1 in the UK Record Retailer chart. This is an extract from the album's liner notes, written by Derek Taylor, the band's press officer: ⁠ ⁠ "There's priceless history between these covers. None of us is getting any younger. When, in a generation or so, a radio-active, cigar-smoking child, picnicking on Saturn, asks you what the Beatle affair was all about---'Did you actually know them?'---don't try to explain all about the long hair and the screams! Just play the child a few tracks from this album and he'll probably understand what it was all about. The kids of AD 2000 will draw from the music much the same sense of well being and warmth as we do today." ⁠ ⁠ What's your favourite song on the album? ⁠ ⁠ Photo © Apple Corps Ltd.
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Happy Birthday, George. This year, we’re celebrating with some of the beautiful images fans from around the world have created of George. Thank you to all of the contributors who kindly allowed us to share them. If you have artwork you would like to share on this day, please use the #georgeharrisonbirthday @agusisola14 @aifosartt @atomicultos @berkaydaglar @bublinko_art @cmloweart @jimfisher_portraits @kath_illust @mackyart @mariaperera_ilustracion @mazir_mallin_ @minstreldesigns @msjordankay @natesweitzer @omi.kinz @otrahernandezmas @rbrunoill realcardiac @rossmchaleart @sarah_rugg @smlshin @zheng4088 @tin_rocktambulo
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#OTD in 1965, the band began shooting in The Bahamas for Help!⁠ What's the weather like where you are right now? ⁠ ⁠ Photo © Apple Corps Ltd.
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Sam Mendes / Neal Street Productions To Make Landmark Beatles Biopic Project For Sony Pictures Entertainment Four feature films, one from each band member's perspective, will have global theatrical release in 2027 “I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies” - Sam Mendes. Read more at thebeatles.com - link in bio.
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#OTD in 1963, The Beatles had the cover shoot for their first album, Please Please Me. Have you heard the whole album?⁠ ⁠ Photo © Apple Corps Ltd.
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#OTD in 1968, John, George, Cynthia and Pattie go to India. Many of the songs that would end up on the #WhiteAlbum were written while the band were on this trip. ⁠ ⁠ @johnlennon @paulmccartney @georgeharrisonofficial @ringostarrmusic ⁠ ⁠ Photos © Apple Corps Ltd.
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#OTD in 1964, The Beatles began their stay in Miami, where they would also film their second Ed Sullivan Show appearance. “Miami was like Paradise. We had never been anywhere where there were palm trees. We were real tourists; we had our Pentax cameras and took a lot of pictures. (...) We had a great time there. We played at one of the hotels. They always had cabarets down in the basements of the big hotels. And we’d look down on the beach where the fans would write ‘I love John’ in the sand, so big we could read it from our room.” - Paul Photo © Apple Corps Ltd
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#OTD in 1964, The Beatles take the train from New York to Washington DC for their performance at the Washington Coliseum. They had their own carriage full of press, agents and others. Just a year before on this same day, they had been recording their first album, Please Please Me. “Being cheeky chappies saved our arses on many occasions, especially then, on the train to Washington, because the guys from the press had come to bury us. These reporters, being New Yorkers, would yell at us, but we just yelled back. When we got to know some of them they said, ‘We came here to kill you, but you just started shouting back at us - we couldn’t believe it.’ Up until then pop groups had been milk and honey with the press: ‘No, I don’t smoke,’ that kind of thing. And here we were, smoking and drinking and shouting at them. That’s what endeared us to them.” - Ringo.
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The Beatles Store Celebrates with New Interactive Shop Experience To celebrate the anniversary, the @beatlesstore has launched a virtual, interactive shoppable experience for fans to relive the band’s iconic first trip to the States. The experience allows fans to shop new and exclusive merchandise while being taken on a journey through of the band’s trip via interactive elements. Highlights include a recreation of the Ed Sullivan set from their first performance, a timeline with archival footage and interviews, a photo booth experience and option to send Beatles themed digital postcards. Link is in the bio.
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#OTD in 1964 - 60 years ago today - The Beatles’ first live Ed Sullivan performance is aired. 73 million people were reported to have watched - a record at the time. “We were aware that Ed Sullivan was the big one because we got a telegram from Elvis and the Colonel. And I’ve heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.” - George
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SiriusXM is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of The Beatles’ First U.S. Visit with special programming on The Beatles Channel and on the @siriusxm app. Find our more in the link in our bio.
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#OTD in 1964, the day after The Beatles arrived in New York for their historical first US visit, the band have a photoshoot in Central Park without George, who has a bad throat and has to stay behind at the hotel. Photos © Apple Corps Ltd
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#OTD in 1964, The Beatles began their first visit to the USA with a press conference at JFK airport. Today is the 60th anniversary of the start of their historical trip.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatles!” Relive an iconic pop culture moment with this very special collector building set commemorating the TV performance that changed music forever! Build your own piece of Beatlemania today. #TheBeatlesxMEGA #TheBeatles #EdSullivanShow
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Wonderful news that The Beatles have won the #Grammy for Best Music Video for “I’m Only Sleeping”. Em Cooper’s beautiful film was created with 1300 hand painted frames and accompanied the track for the ‘Revolver’ Special Edition. Congratulations and thanks to director Em Cooper, and producers Jonathan Clyde, Sophie Hilton, Sue Loughlin & Laura Thomas. #grammys
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