They now had an audience, and upon that audience they happily cascaded “Please Please Me,” “From Me to You,” “She Loves You.” 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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