Maps of Music

Beatles '65 (1964)

Where the lyrics of Beatles '65 take you, and where it was really made.

This US-only LP was assembled from songs taken from other albums, yet it jumped from number 98 straight to number 1 on the Billboard chart.

Key places

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios (1964)

Recording site Abbey Road Studios — Most songs on the album were recorded at EMI Abbey Road Studios in London between 11 August and 26 October 1964. The exception was I'll Be Back, recorded on 1 June 1964. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: Jubilee line to St John's Wood station, then about a 5-minute walk.

Album story

Overview

• Beatles '65: album by the English rock band the Beatles
• Issued in the United States and Canada in December 1964
• North American alternative to Beatles for Sale
• Fifth studio album culled by Capitol Records in the US from the Beatles' EMI releases
• LP also issued in West Germany on the Odeon label
• First released on CD in 2004 as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set
• 2014 CD reissue, both alone and in The U.S. Albums box set, using the UK mixes remastered in 2009
• 2024 vinyl reissue in The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono, using the original master tapes instead of the UK mixes

Background

• Includes eight of the fourteen songs from Beatles for Sale
• Also includes "I'll Be Back", which was cut from the US version of the Hard Day's Night album
• Includes both sides of the single "I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman"
• The two songs from the single were issued in duophonic stereo
• Capitol executive Dave Dexter, Jr. added reverb to those two songs to cover the use of the mono mixes sent from the UK
• Two of the three Carl Perkins songs recorded by the Beatles appear on this album
• The six Beatles for Sale tracks left off this album were issued by Capitol on Beatles VI in June 1965

Recording

• "I'll Be Back" was recorded on 1 June 1964
• The other songs were recorded between 11 August and 26 October 1964
• Those sessions took place at EMI Abbey Road Studios in London

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960
• Grew out of Lennon's earlier band the Quarrymen
• Built its reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg
• Starr officially joined in 1962

Members

• John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr

Career

• Manager Brian Epstein shaped them into a professional act
• Producer George Martin developed their recordings after they signed with EMI
• First hit Love Me Do came in late 1962
• By early 1964 they were international stars
• Part of the British Invasion of the US pop market
• Retired from live performance in 1966
• Turned to more sophisticated studio albums: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album and Abbey Road
• Founded Apple Corps in 1968
• Broke up in 1970

Around this album

• Abbey Road was the last album the group recorded together
• On 20 September 1969, six days before release, Lennon told McCartney, Starr and manager Allen Klein that he wanted a divorce from the group
• No public announcement of the split came until McCartney announced he was leaving in April 1970

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• In the United States, the album jumped from number 98 straight to number 1 on the Billboard chart
• It was the biggest jump to the top position in Billboard album chart history up to that time
• It stayed at number 1 for nine straight weeks from 9 January 1965
• Based on Billboard's year-end chart for 1965, it was the top selling non-soundtrack LP

Reappraisal

• John Swenson wrote in The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983) that it was the first of the band's "classic 'concept' albums"
• Swenson said the LP worked as a musical whole rather than a collection of the latest songs that could be put in any order
• Several albums with similar titles were released and promoted in America during 1965, including Sinatra '65, Ellington '65, and Brasil '65

Records

• In the US, it sold 1,967,261 copies by 31 December 1964
• By the end of the 1960s, US sales had reached 2,327,186
• It was the top selling non-soundtrack LP on Billboard's 1965 year-end chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The Rock and Roll Music track was misprinted as 2:02 on the original Capitol LP, and the error was never corrected, even on the 2024 mono vinyl reissue.
• George Martin produced the album and played piano on No Reply and Rock and Roll Music.
• Both sides of the single I Feel Fine and She's a Woman were issued in duophonic stereo with reverb added by Capitol's Dave Dexter, Jr.
• Brasil '65 by Sérgio Mendes was released on the Beatles' own Capitol label in the same year as this album.
• Six Beatles for Sale tracks left off this album were released by Capitol on Beatles VI in June 1965.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Maps of Ages ↗ (mapsofages.com)

Privacy · Contact