Beatles' First UK Number One Single

The Beatles' 'Please Please Me' topped the UK charts, igniting Beatlemania and launching the British Invasion that would dominate popular culture for a generation.

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The Beatles' First! is a German compilation album of songs recorded in Hamburg in 1961 and 1962 by Tony Sheridan with the Beatles as his backing group. It was originally released in 1964 in West Germany, then issued in 1967 in England, 1969 in Canada, as Very Together and finally in the United States in 1970, titled In the Beginning .

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