“1” is a compilation album released on November 13, 2000. The album features many of the Beatles’ number-one hits from various charts around the world. The album contains 27 tracks, each of which reached the number-one position on either the UK singles chart or the US Billboard Hot 100. “1” […]
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Let It Be is the Beatles’ twelfth and final studio album. On 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the group’s public break-up, the album was released along with the documentary of the same name. Having experienced recent friction within the band, Paul McCartney had envisioned the project as a way […]
The Beatles’ eleventh studio album, Abbey Road, was released in 1966. Although Let It Be was the last album completed by the band before their breakup in April 1970, it was the last album the group started recording. On 26 September 1969, the album was released in the United Kingdom, and […]
Yellow Submarine is the Beatles’ tenth studio album, released on 13 January 1969 in the United States and 17 January 1969 in the United Kingdom. Originally released in 1968, it was the soundtrack to the animated film with the same name. The album contains six Beatles songs, including “Yellow Submarine” and […]
The Beatles’ ninth studio album, also known as the White Album, was released on 22 November 1968. It is the band’s only double album. There are no graphics or text on the cover other than the band’s name embossed on the white sleeve. Compared to the vivid artwork on the […]
Beatles’ eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on 26 May 1967. As an early concept album, Sgt. Pepper advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and producers in popular music. The album had a cross-generational impact and was associated with many youth culture […]
The Beatles released Revolver on 5 August 1966, accompanied by a double A-side single called “Eleanor Rigby” / “Yellow Submarine“. It was the Beatles’ final recording project before they retired as live performers, marking their most overt use of studio technology since their late 1965 album Rubber Soul. Since its release, it has […]
Rubber Soul was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom, on EMI’s Parlophone label, accompanied by the non-album double A-side single “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out“. The original North American release, issued by Capitol Records, contains ten of the fourteen songs and two tracks withheld from […]
Help! is the fifth studio album by the Beatles and the soundtrack to their film of the same name. It was released on 6 August 1965. Seven of the fourteen songs, including the singles “Help!” and “Ticket to Ride“, appeared in the film and take up the first side of the […]
Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the Beatles. It was released on 4 December 1964 in the United Kingdom on EMI’s Parlophone label. The album marked a departure from the upbeat tone that had characterized the Beatles’ previous work, partly due to the band’s exhaustion after a series […]
A Hard Day’s Night is the third studio album by the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 by Parlophone, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United […]
With the Beatles is the second studio album by the Fab Four. It was released in the United Kingdom on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone, eight months after the band’s debut Please Please Me. Produced by George Martin, the album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and “Don’t Bother Me“, George […]