Please Please Me

~ Release group by The Beatles

Wikipedia

Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin, it was released in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label on 22 March 1963. The album's 14 tracks include cover songs and original material written by the partnership of band members John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

The Beatles had signed with EMI in May 1962 and been assigned to the Parlophone label run by Martin. They released their debut single "Love Me Do" in October, which surprised Martin by reaching number 17 on what would become the official UK singles chart. Impressed, Martin suggested they record a live album and helped arrange their next single, "Please Please Me", which topped the NME singles chart. Finding the Cavern Club, the band's venue in their native Liverpool, unsuitable for recording, Martin switched to a simple studio album. The Beatles recorded Please Please Me in one day at EMI Studios on 11 February 1963, with Martin adding overdubs to "Misery" and "Baby It's You" nine days later. The A-sides and B-sides of two previously released singles were added to the album.

The album was well-received in Britain, where it remained in the Top 10 for over a year, a record for a debut album that stood for half a century. The presence of several songs written by band members Lennon–McCartney (credited as "McCartney–Lennon" at the time) was unusual and marked the emergence of a "self-contained rock band". On the other hand, the album was not released in the US, where the band sold poorly for most of 1963; after the stateside emergence of Beatlemania, Vee-Jay Records released a mild abridgment of the album as Introducing... The Beatles in early 1964, while EMI's American label Capitol Records divided the material from Please Please Me across multiple albums. Other countries also received different versions of the album, which continued until 1987, when the entirety of the Beatles catalogue was brought to CD and internationally standardised to the UK albums.

Please Please Me remains critically acclaimed; it was voted 39th on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2012, and number 622 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums in 2000.

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Album

ReleaseArtistFormatTracksCountry/DateLabelCatalog#Barcode
Official
Please Please Me (mono, 1st press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • GB1963-03-22
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 1st press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • GB1963-04-26
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 2nd press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 2nd press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 3rd press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 3rd press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 4th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 4th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 5th press, Decca contract)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 5th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 5th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me und andere Knüller (first stereo issue of Please Please Me)Die Beatles12" Vinyl14
Hör ZuSHZE 117
Please Please Me (stereo, 6th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, recording first..., sold in U.K., tight track list)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 6th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 7th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me und Andere KnüllerDie Beatles12" Vinyl14
Hör ZuSHZE 117[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 7th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • JP1969-09-10
Apple RecordsAP-8675[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, one EMI box)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, 8th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, one EMI box)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 8th press)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (Blue print on cassette)The BeatlesCassette14
ParlophoneTC ‐ PCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, two EMI boxes, MADE IN GT.BRITAIN at the bottom)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
Apple RecordsEAS-80550[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, two EMI boxes, MADE IN GT.BRITAIN in the rim text)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
Apple Records1C 072-04 219
Please Please Me (stereo, two EMI boxes, HIRING in the rim text)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (mono, 1981 reissue)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 1201[none]
Please Please Me (mono, red vinyl)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • JP1982-01-21
OdeonEAS-70130[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, two EMI boxes, RENTING in the rim text, wide font, no barcode)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, two EMI boxes, RENTING in the rim text, thin font)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me (stereo, two EMI boxes, RENTING in the rim text, wide font)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePCS 30425099910421918
Please Please Me (MFSL Original Master Recording)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
Mobile Fidelity Sound LabMFSL 1-101[none]
Please Please Me (red vinyl)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
OdeonEAS-70130[none]
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
  • XE1987-02-26
ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
  • GB1987-02-26
ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono, CD made in W‐Germany, SPARS code: ADD)The BeatlesCD14
  • US1987-02-26
ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
  • JP1987-02-27
OdeonCDP 7 46435 2, CP32‐53214988006610712
Please Please Me (mono)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • US1987-07-21
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)CLJ 46435077774643511
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD14
Apple Records, ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono, two EMI boxes)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 12025099910421918
Please Please Me (mono, made in W‐Germany, SPARS code: AAD)The BeatlesCD14
ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono, CD made in USA)The BeatlesCD14
ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono, purple label)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), ParlophoneCLJ-46435077774643511
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
Apple Records, ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
Apple Records, ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
Apple Records, Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono)The BeatlesCD14
Apple Records7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD14
EMI Odeon Brazil746435 2077774643528
Please Please Me (mono, two EMI boxes, 1995)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
ParlophonePMC 12010077774643511
Please Please Me (mono, purple label with Apple logo)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)C1 0777 7 46435 1 1077774643511
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD14
  • JP1998-03-11
EMI (Japanese double‐boxed logo), Apple Records, ParlophoneTOCP-511114988006739956
Please Please Me (2009 stereo remaster)The BeatlesEnhanced CD16
  • XE2009-09-09
Apple Records, Parlophone0946 3 82416 2 1094638241621
Please Please Me (2009 stereo remaster)The BeatlesEnhanced CD15
  • US2009-09-09
Apple Records, Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), Parlophone0946 3 82416 2 1094638241621
Please Please Me (2009 stereo remaster)The BeatlesEnhanced CD15
Apple Records0946 3 82416 2 1094638241621
Please Please Me (2009 stereo remaster)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • XE2012-11-12
Parlophone0094638241614, PCS 3042094638241614
Please Please Me (2009 stereo remaster)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • US2012-11-13
Parlophone094638241614, PCS 3042094638241614
Please Please Me (2014 mono remaster)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
  • XE2014-09-08
  • GB2014-09-08
  • US2014-09-09
Parlophone5099963379815, PMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (remastered)The BeatlesDigital Media14
  • XW2015-12-24
EMI Catalogue00602547670113
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD15
Apple Records0600753568224
Please Please MeThe BeatlesDigital Media15
Universal Music Catalogue (since early 2000s, alt name UMC used since ca. 2016; defunct since early 2023, renamed into Universal Music Recordings, don’t use it for later 2023 releases)00602567725275
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD14Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), ParlophoneC2 46435077774643528
Please Please Me (mono AAD GEMA Uden PDO)The BeatlesCD14ParlophoneCDP 7 46435 2077774643528
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCassette16Universe (Compilations – Attention, some releases may be bootlegs)UN 4017A[none]
Bootleg
Please Please Me (red labels)The Beatles12" Vinyl14
Santa Records (Russian pirate label)ATR 30109/10, П93 00537/38[none]
Die Beatles (Die zentrale Tanzschaffe der weltberühmten Vier aus Liverpool)The BeatlesCD14
Hör ZuSHZE 117[none]
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD14
Fabulous Sound Lab, ParlophoneFS-1001, PCS 3042
Please Please Me (MFSL DESS bootleg)The BeatlesCD14
Dr. Ebbetts Sound SystemsMFSL 1-101[none]
Please Please MeThe BeatlesCD14
SomeWax (Russian bootleg label)SW103-24607016131443
Please Please Me (mono DESS bootleg)The BeatlesCD14
Dr. Ebbetts Sound SystemsPMC 1202[none]
Please Please Me (stereo DESS bootleg)The BeatlesCD14
Dr. Ebbetts Sound SystemsPCS 3042[none]
Please Please Me: Remixed (Prof. Stoned, v1.2)The BeatlesDigital Media20
  • XW2022-06-11
[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)[none][none]

Relationships

associated singles/EPs:From Me to You
Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You
No. 1
Please Please Me / From Me to You
Souvenir of Their Visit to America
Twist and Shout
Twist and Shout / There’s a Place
covers:Please Please Me by Various Artists (add compilations to this artist)
included in:Please Please Me / With The Beatles
The Beatles (box set, includes 2009 stereo remasters)
The Beatles Collection
The Beatles in Mono (2009 mono remasters)
part of:The Beatles: Core Catalogue (number: 1) (order: 1)
The Beatles: UK albums (number: 1) (order: 1)
Uncut: The 100 Greatest Debut Albums (2006) (number: 17) (order: 17)
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time (2022-07-01) (number: 21) (order: 21)
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2003 edition (number: 39) (order: 39)
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2012 edition (number: 39) (order: 39)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/master/45362 [info]
reviews:https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6jwx [info]
other databases:https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_beatles/please_please_me/ [info]
Allmusic:https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000649873 [info]
Wikidata:Q181826 [info]