It has sold over nine million singles and albums and was the top single of a year in which the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, continued to dominate the U. S. charts.

" Love's ' Forever Changes ,' from 1967, is a lost classic of a period when The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Byrds and other top acts routinely stretched pop / rock's boundaries.

As " In Dreams " was released in April 1963, Orbison was asked to replace guitarist Duane Eddy on a tour of the UK in top billing, with The Beatles, whose popularity was on the rise.

It was re-titled as The Best of the Seekers in the UK and spent one week at No. 1 in February 1969, managing to knock the Beatles ' ( White Album ) off the top of the charts and preventing the Rolling Stones ' Beggars Banquet from reaching the top spot.

** The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented achievement.

With The Beatles stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that The Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks.

Beatles ' 65 enjoyed a nine week run at the top of the US charts beginning in January 1965.

After seven weeks, the album's time at the top seemed over, but Beatles for Sale made a comeback on 27 February 1965, by dethroning The Rolling Stones and returning to the top spot for a week.

" After releasing an album that had delivered such critical, commercial, and generational shock waves, The Beatles faced the inevitable question of what they could possibly do to top it.

He initially offered Beatles manager Brian Epstein top dollar for a single show but the Beatles manager had a better idea — he wanted exposure for his clients: the Beatles would instead appear three times on the show, at bottom dollar, but receive top billing and two spots ( opening and closing ) on each show.

It was the only Beatles single to enter the UK charts at the top.

Aided by the Beatles ' praise, " You Can't Do That " became a minor hit in the US, and a top 10 hit in Canada.

The record quickly hit the top of the charts, winning Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards over The Beatles ' Abbey Road, among other nominees.

A similar path was pursued by the Bee Gees, formed in Brisbane, but whose first album Bee Gees ' 1st ( 1967 ), recorded in London, gave them three major hit singles and contained folk, rock and psychedelic elements, heavily influenced by the Beatles.

The band covered the Beatles hit " Good Day Sunshine " for the 2006 album All Together Now: Beatles Stuff for Kids of All Ages.

The Beatles hit single of 1967, " All You Need is Love ", used the opening bars of " La Marseillaise " as an introduction.

One memorable aspect of the show was the regular closing number, where Johnny Young would croon a ballad version of The Beatles ' song " All My Loving " ( with which Young had had an Australian hit in 1966 ), accompanied by the entire cast, in an almost lullaby style, individually wishing all of the cast good night.

The Beatles were fans of the Bonzos: they featured them in the 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour and Paul McCartney ( working with Gus Dudgeon under the alias Apollo C. Vermouth ) had produced their 1968 hit single " I'm the Urban Spaceman ".

An example of this is vocalist Michael Bublé's interpretation of The Beatles ' rock and roll hit, " Can't Buy Me Love ", performed in more traditional pop arrangement.

The Carpenters made a promo clip of their cover of the Beatles hit " Ticket to Ride ".

", is one of the most popular tunes to have originated in a Broadway musical, and was a # 1 hit in the United States for Louis Armstrong, knocking The Beatles from # 1 in 1964.

As a new recruit, Emerick was not entitled to get over-time pay, but was lucky enough to witness the first-ever EMI recording session by the finalised line-up of The Beatles in 1962, during which the group recorded for the first time with new drummer Ringo Starr on what would eventually become their first hit single " Love Me Do ".

Although the appearances by The Beatles, Elvis and The Supremes are considered the most famous rock and roll performances on Ed Sullivan, several months before Elvis debuted, Sullivan invited Bill Haley & His Comets to perform their then-current hit " Rock Around the Clock " in early August 1955.

The song was in the Beatles ' 1967 television film and album Magical Mystery Tour, and was the B-side to the # 1 hit " Hello, Goodbye ".

The single topped the US Billboard pop charts for two weeks in January 1975 as well as the Canadian RPM national singles chart for four weeks spanning January and February, eventually overtaken by The Carpenters's version of the Motown hit " Please Mr. Postman ", a song covered, with Lennon singing the lead vocal, on With the Beatles in 1963.

For their 1969 album Shady Grove, Duncan did not participate, replaced by renowned English session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, who had played on scores of hit albums and singles by acts like The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who and Steve Miller, among many others.

The Beatles are the first beneficiary of the new policy as their current 45 single featuring " Come Together " on one side, and " Something " on the other, accrue enough combined points to make the single a # 1 pop hit.

The accompanying soundtrack to the film is an enormous hit that establishes the Bee Gees ( who had composed most of the tracks ) as the most popular artists in the world, and the best-selling artist since the Beatles.

** The Beatles achieve their first # 1 hit single, when " Please Please Me " tops the charts in the UK

It also had a direct influence on producer George Martin's staccato string arrangement for Beatles 1966 smash hit single " Eleanor Rigby ".

In fact, The Four Seasons are the only act to have a Hot 100 # 1 hit before, during, and after the years that the Beatles had their Hot 100 # 1 hits.

The Isleys ' version became a hit, reaching # 17 on the Hot 100 and # 2 on the R & B chart, later inspiring a hit cover by The Beatles.

( Their bug-themed band's name, The Beatles, was chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets.

) The Beatles did a cover version of " Words of Love " that was a close reproduction of Holly's version, released on late 1964's Beatles for Sale ( in the U. S., in June 1965 on Beatles VI ).

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.

He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

This was the same episode of the show in which The Beatles made their first appearance.

McCartney tried to remind Sullivan that he was one of The Beatles but Sullivan obviously could not remember and, nodding and smiling, simply shook McCartney's hand and left.

It also included figures such as Mick Jagger, and Paul Simon as themselves, although it also included other members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles playing various characters as well as numerous recognizable comedy actors, so there was no real intent to fool the audience.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

Jeffry was a fan of The Beatles, The Who, David Bowie and The Stooges among other bands ( particularly oldies and the Phil Spector-produced " girl groups ").

Beatles manager Brian Epstein was his godfather.

However, in the Beatles Anthology series in 1996, the three surviving Beatles confirmed that there was never an idea of having Julian sit in for his father as part of a Beatles reunion, with McCartney saying " why would we want to subject him to all of this?

Orton was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, his maroon cloth-draped coffin being brought into the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song " A Day in the Life ".

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

He saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club when he was 16, then played guitar along to their first album, Please Please Me, learning the chords.