![]() ![]() It also did not hurt that manager Brian Epstein bought up 10,000 copies himself, a formula for success called padding, through which the Beatles owe, in some degree, their next opportunity or two. No one would maintain that the song is a masterpiece, but I’m constantly struck by how well it has aged - it’s brawny, bluesy, just tender enough, just tough enough, just distinctive enough. This October marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do.” This song release marked the end of the pre-fame years by reaching 17 on the British charts. Ever since I got into the Beatles as a 14-year-old, I have been reading Beatles books rapaciously, ranking them in my head with only slightly less of the zeal I deploy in ranking Beatles albums.įor instance, I will all but throw down - rhetorically speaking, of course - in arguing that Peter Brown and Steven Gaines’ " The Love You Make" has more of the visceral truth than the rah-rah cheerleading of the " A nthology ," that Philip Norman’s " Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation" is the best tome on the pre-fame years, and that acclaimed Beatles chronicler Mark Lewisohn is absolutely awful at writing, but may be the best researcher of a pop culture subject of the last century.
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