The Fab Four released Please Please Me on March 22, 1963, in England. Ringo Starr counts in the lead track “I Saw Her Standing There” with an enthusiastic “one, two, three, four!” making it clear The ...

Producer George Martin felt The Beatles’ “Please Please Me” needed to be changed in a major way. Martin discussed what he thought of the Fab Four during their early days. “Please Please Me” was a hit ...

The Beatles recorded dozens of covers early in their career. Here are five famous songs fans often assume were originals.

The Beatles’ influence continues to reverberate across the decades since their epoch-making emergence in global culture. Last year alone, they outpaced all “catalog” acts with some 1.5 billion streams ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

It was history in the making. “Well she was just 17 and you know what I mean,” sings Paul McCartney on “I Saw Her Standing There,” the opening track of The Beatles debut album, “Please Please Me.” At ...

John Lennon‘s long-lost acoustic Gibson J-160E, used in the recording of the Beatles‘ Please Please Me and With the Beatles LPs, shattered all estimates Saturday on the Julien’s Live auction block, as ...

A Beatles-branded interactive music game along the lines of Rock Band and Guitar Hero will give gamers and music lovers a chance to play songs from every stage of the Beatles' storied career, from the ...