Please Please Me

Legend has it that immediately after recording this song, producer George Martin told The Beatles, "Gentlemen, you've just recorded your first number-one song." Nearly forty years later, in one of the Fabs' greatest oversights ever, they release a compilation of their chart-topping hits titled Beatles 1 but leave this highlight off the CD. This one has it all: goosing harmonica blasts, snaky Lennon innuendo (just what was he wanting that girl to do in order to please please him?), and glorious rocking delivery. An all-time great.

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