Twist and Shout

The story goes that in recording the Please Please Me album, John Lennon had to save this number for last because he knew it would tear his throat up. One imagines him spending the following week in bed, recovering. A perfect little rocker that makes The Isley Brothers' original version look like an insignificant footnote. (And we'll forgive teen-comedy filmmaker John Hughes for hijacking the Beatles version two decades later for Matthew Broderick to lip-synch in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.) Anthology 1's version is equally nifty, taken as it is from The Beatles' 1963 Royal Command Performance, where John closed the show with his immortal wisecrack about how the wealthier patrons should keep the beat of the song.

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