Are you KIDDING me? "Please Please Me"...the 1st Beatles album...released FIFTY THREE years ago?

[Miles Archer]

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Please-Please-Me/108449652513626

Please Please Me: Fans Celebrate Anniversary of Release of Debut Studio Album by The Beatles on March 22

"Please Please Me" was released March 22, 1963. It topped the U.K. Albums Chart, was certified platinum in the United States and ranks No. 39 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. yep, we are getting old.

I was a little kid. I didn't know about them until their famous appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964. I still occasionally go to geezer rock concerts when they are still alive and touring. Right now The Who are touring in the United States. That is Roger, Pete, Simon who is Pete's brother, and Zak Starkey on drums. Moon taught Zak to drum when he was a kid.

[oberliner]

10. Keith Moon and Zak Starkey

[Paper Roses]

2. Like it was yesterday....... n/t

[PoiBoy]

3. Paul is trying to regain ownership..

..of his share of publishing rights for some of the songs...

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7263857/paul-mccartney-beatles-songs-publishing
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When news broke that the Michael Jackson estate would sell its 50 percent share of Sony/ATV Music Publishing to Sony in a $750 million deal, many wondered whether Paul McCartney would finally be able to acquire the rights to his share of the company’s crown jewel -- the Lennon-McCartney catalog -- since it begins coming up for reversion in 2018.

Billboard can confirm that as of Dec. 15, 2015, he has already begun the process.

To recap, at some point during the early ‘80s heyday of McCartney’s friendship with Jackson, he pointed out the value of music publishing. Jackson soon received a tip that ATV Music -- publisher of the Beatles’ Lennon-McCartney songs, among many others -- was available, and purchased it for $47.5 million in 1985. McCartney had long coveted his Beatles catalog -- he and Lennon lost out to ATV in a 1969 attempt to purchase Northern Songs, their original publisher -- and he never forgave Jackson for what he considered a betrayal of their friendship.

It’s an opportunity McCartney is not going to let slip past him again. The U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 gave songwriters the ability to recapture the publishers’ share of their songs, and in the case of titles written before 1978, writers can recapture songs after two consecutive 28-year terms, or 56 years. (That legislation allows for writers of songs issued in or after 1978 to recapture their publishing after 35 years.)

The Lennon-McCartney catalog begins hitting the 56-year mark in 2018.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35860868
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An unnamed source told the magazine Sir Paul would only regain publishing rights for his half of the compositions, most of which he co-wrote with John Lennon. Furthermore, the act only applies to the US, so The Beatles' back catalogue would remain in the hands of Sony / ATV in the rest of the world.
Publishing rights determine how a song can be exploited - for example by licensing its use in a film or television programme. The publisher shares any resulting royalties with the songwriters, helping Sir Paul to amass a personal fortune of £730m.
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Good luck to Paul..

Damn I'm old..!!!

[annabanana]

5. I sure hope that he can get them back.

It's only right and fair.

[OriginalGeek]

4. I probably heard it a lot

in the womb. I remember Beatles songs playing all my life. Probably more because of my dad than my mom. He liked music.

[Kaleva]

6. I hadn't started school yet when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show

[LiberalElite]

7. Another very early one I always liked:

and BTW I LOATHE "Love Me Do"!!

[ProfessorGAC]

11. If I'm Not Mistaken. . .

. . .in the US that was the flip side of "She Loves You" for the singles released on the Swan Label.

Wasn't that big a hit in the US, but nearly everybody had the record whether they realized it or not.

That being said, in the early days, the B sides were hits on a lot of their singles, so maybe people got used to playing both sides.

[edbermac]

8. And they recorded it in one 12 hour session.

[malthaussen]

9. Blow your mind:

That album was released so long ago, that the same interval before then was before the beginning of WWI.

-- Mal

[So Far From Heaven]

12. These kinds of threads date me.

I was having a real nice time till you told me how old I am.

Thanks

[lunatica]

13. I have a vivid memory of hearing their first 45 record

I was living in Monterrey, Mexico and a British friend of mine got a 45 record from his friends in Britain. He played it for us. "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You".

It's one of those memories that stands out. It was 1962 and I was 14 years old.

It broke my heart when they broke up.