Please Please Me (album)

Please Please Me is the first offical album by The Beatles, It was released on March 22, 1963 in the United Kingdom. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 39 on its list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In the United States, many of the songs on the album were first issued on Vee-Jay Records' Introducing The Beatles in 1964, and then subsequently on Capitol Records' The Early Beatles in 1965. In a review, the All Music Guide says "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins."

The album was released on compact disc on 26 February 1987. It was not released on vinyl or tape in America until five months later, when it was issued for the first time in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.

A newly remastered version of Please Please Me, along with all the other original UK studio albums, was re-released on CD on 9 September 2009 in both stereo and mono editions. The 2009 remaster replaces the infamously poor quality 1987 remasters.

Tracks
All songs Lennon/McCartney except where noted otherwise.

Love Me Do can be located here, the first U.S. hit.

Side One

 * 1) "I Saw Her Standing There" – 2:55
 * 2) "Misery" – 1:50
 * 3) "Anna (Go to Him)" (Arthur Alexander) – 2:57
 * 4) "Chains" (Gerry Goffin/Carole King) – 2:26
 * 5) "Boys" (Luther Dixon/Wes Farrell) – 2:27
 * 6) "Ask Me Why" –  2:27
 * 7) "Please Please Me" – 2:03

Side Two

 * 1) "Love Me Do" – 2:22
 * 2) "P.S. I Love You" – 2:05
 * 3) "Baby It's You" (Mack David/Barney Williams/Burt Bacharach) – 2:38
 * 4) "Do You Want to Know a Secret" – 1:59
 * 5) "A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott/Ric Marlow) – 2:05
 * 6) "There's a Place" – 1:52
 * 7) "Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley/Bert Russell) – 2:33

Credits

 * John Lennon: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, handclaps
 * Paul McCartney: vocals, bass, handclaps
 * George Harrison: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, handclaps
 * Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, tambourine, maracas, handclaps
 * George Martin: producer, piano, celesta
 * Andy White: drums on "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You"
 * Ron Richards: producer
 * Norman Smith: engineer
 * Stuart Eltham: engineer