) 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.

With the ascendance of rock and roll, a watershed moment occurred between 1962 and 1964 when the Surfaris released " Wipe Out ," and when Ringo Starr of The Beatles played his Ludwig kit on American television ; events that motivated legions to take up the drums.

Also, when The Beatles ' Let It Be was released in 1970, the magazine originally gave the album a poor review, yet in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it number 86 in the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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.

The album was initially unsuccessful, having been released in the shadow of The Beatles ' arrival on the scene.

In 1976, McCartney released a live album called Wings Over America which credited the five Beatles tracks he included as P. McCartney – J.

Although the song was written by Lennon during his tenure with the Beatles it was both written and recorded without the help of the band and released as Lennon's first independent single under the " Plastic Ono Band " moniker.

In 2002, McCartney released another live album, Back in the U. S. Live 2002, and the 19 Beatles ' songs included are described as " composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon ".

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

* January 10 – Introducing ... the Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records ' release of Meet the Beatles !, scheduled for January 20.

* January 20 – Meet the Beatles !, the first The Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing ...

** The Beatles ' second U. K. album, With The Beatles, is released

* January 5 – The first album on which The Beatles play, My Bonnie, credited to " Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers " ( recorded last June in Hamburg ), is released by Polydor in the U. K.

* December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the U. K. and also the only psychedelic rock album of The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request in the U. K and in the U. S. A.

Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop groups such as The Kinks, The Beatles and XTC, Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish ( 1993 ), Parklife ( 1994 ) and The Great Escape ( 1995 ).

At this point, The Beatles had released their groundbreaking album Sgt.

The Beatles mentioned Wilson rather negatively, naming both him and his opponent Edward Heath in George Harrison's song " Taxman ", the opener to 1966's Revolver — recorded and released after the MBEs.

In 1988, the group released the album Let It Be, featuring cover versions of all the songs from the Beatles album of the same name, with the exception of the title track, which they did not record owing to lack of studio time, and " Maggie Mae ", which was replaced by the German anthems " Auf der Lüneburger Heide " and " Was Gleicht Wohl Auf Erden ".

The album features eight original compositions ( seven by Lennon – McCartney and " Don't Bother Me ", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album ) and six covers ( mostly of Motown and R & B hits ).

The Beatles appeared three more times on the Sullivan show in person, and submitted filmed performances later.

Julian directly inspired three Beatles songs: " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ", " Hey Jude ", and " Good Night ".

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?

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.

After an extensive mail-based poll, Phish performed The Beatles ' self-titled album — as the second of their three sets at the Glens Falls Civic Center in upstate New York.

On 26 February 1987, Beatles for Sale was officially released on Compact Disc ( catalogue number CDP 7 46438 2 ), as were three other of The Beatles ' albums, Please Please Me, With The Beatles and A Hard Day's Night.

All three opening tracks for Beatles for Sale have a sad or resentful emotion attached to them.

Of the other seven songs that were on the British release, two were released on the US version of the next Beatles album, Rubber Soul, two were back-to-back on the next US single and then appeared on Yesterday and Today, and three had already been on Beatles VI.

Lewisohn also reports that, in the case of " Back in the U. S. S. R .", also recorded during Starr's absence, the three remaining Beatles each made contributions on bass and drums, with the result that those parts may be composite tracks played by Lennon, McCartney and / or Harrison.

Although " Hey Jude " was not intended to be included on any LP release, it was recorded during the White Album sessions and was issued as a single nearly three months before the release of The Beatles.

Lennon had wanted the original version of " Revolution " to be released as a single, but the other three Beatles objected on the grounds that it was too slow.

Accordingly, photos of the three ' surviving ' Rutles parodied those of the then three surviving Beatles in the Anthology series.

* Andy White ( born 1930 ), former British session drummer who made three records with The Beatles, including Love Me Do.

" The singer never again appeared in Sullivan's show, although in February 1964 at the start of the first of three broadcasts featuring the Beatles ( see below ), Sullivan announced that a telegram had been received from Presley and Parker wishing the British group luck.

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.

The Beatles appeared on three consecutive Sundays in February 1964 to great anticipation and fanfare as " I Want to Hold Your Hand " had swiftly risen to No. 1 in the charts.

Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song " Glass Onion " he sings " now here's another clue for you all — the walrus was Paul ", ; in the third verse of " Come Together " he sings the line " he bag production, he got walrus gumboot ", and in his 1970 solo song " God ", admits " I was the walrus, but now I'm John.

The sitar saw further use in popular music after The Beatles featured the sitar in their compositions, namely " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )" and " Within You Without You ".

" Perkins ' songs were recorded by artists ( and friends ) as influential as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Cash, which further cemented his place in the history of popular music.

At the time of its first appearance the song was released by The Beatles ' record company as a single in the United States but not in the United Kingdom ( for further details see below ).

On April 9, Capitol Records is granted an injunction restraining Vee Jay Records from further manufacturing, distributing or advertising recordings by the Beatles.

Promoter Sid Bernstein convinced Carnegie officials that allowing a Beatles concert at the venue " would further international understanding " between the United States and Great Britain.

However, mentions of " Helter Skelter ", both a Beatles song and Manson's name for his predicted apocalyptic war, are frequent within the song further deepening the references towards Manson.

Liam also announced that Beady Eye's version of The Beatles ' ' Across the Universe ', which they performed on the night, would be released as a charity single, to further benefit the fundraising.

This was regarded by industry observers as further evidence that the Beatles catalog would be introduced to the iTunes Music Store catalog in the near future.

In 1974, a further album, The Best Years of Our Lives was released, produced by The Beatles ' recording engineer, Alan Parsons.

It takes the association of the " Band with Rocks In " with the Beatles even further than the book does, evolving their style from 1950s rock and early 1960s beat music ( and mixing-bowl haircuts ) in Ankh-Morpork, to acid rock in Scrote, to spiritual hippie rock in Quirm.

Estus Pirkle ( further samples from the same sermon used in the band's signature song, " Christianity Is Stupid "), an interview with Charles Manson, and what was the band's most brazenly unauthorized sample to date: " Helter Skelter " by The Beatles.

A further single, " I'm On My Way ", which featured a musical quote from The Beatles ' " Lady Madonna " ( the brass riff using all the original players ) was very well received by the media, but did not sell well and entered the chart at number 44 in October 1992.

As work on the album began in February 1968, Mike Love, who had learned Transcendental Meditation ( TM ) in December 1967, departed on a two week trip to India ( alongside The Beatles and Donovan ) to study TM further with his new master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

The personalities associated with the subculture, gurus such as Dr. Timothy Leary and psychedelic rock musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane and The Beatles soon attracted a great deal of publicity, generating further interest in LSD.

They mark the most recent line of Beatles figures the company has produced, and, to date, the company has not announced intentions to generate any further series.

The film is presented in a form similar to that of a rock opera with the Beatles ' songs providing " dialogue " to carry the story, with only George Burns having spoken lines that act to clarify the plot and provide further narration.

Despite McCartney's later comments —" I seem to remember it as mine ... Not awfully memorable "—" Tell Me What You See " shows the musical growth of the Beatles since Please Please Me, and foreshadows their further exploration on Rubber Soul and Revolver.

So on 26 November 1969, he and wife Yoko Ono recorded further overdubs with plans for it to be issued as a single by Plastic Ono Band alongside another unreleased song at the time, " You Know My Name ( Look Up the Number )", which was eventually issued as the B-side of The Beatles ' " Let It Be " single in 1970.

This became most evident on the album The Beatles ( aka The White Album ) in which personal artistic preferences began to dominate the recording sessions, which in turn further undermined the band's unity.