The Beatles Please Please Me to With The Beatles

Please Please Me and With The Beatles, along with their associated singles, introduced the Beatles first to England and then to several countries across the world, including Canada and the United States. Although often overlooked due to the excellence of the group’ s later albums, these early albums contain the exciting songs that fueled Beatlemania. These albums showcased the songwriting talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, as well as incredible cover versions of songs from the group’ s stage show. Had the Beatles not evolved and matured, the group would still be well respected for the quality of the recordings on these two albums. In addition to the usual chapters on the British, American and Canadian perspectives, the book contains chapters on the Decca audition and the EMI artists test session. There are also chapters on the recording sessions and album covers, as well as on the news, music and films of the era to place these albums in their proper context. It is a 9" x 9" hardcover book to match the other books in Bruce Spizer’ s Beatles Album Series. It is 272 pages long and contains over 290 color and original black and white images.

Bruce Spizer has written  15 critically acclaimed Beatles books, including The Beatles Are Coming and his new series on the Beatles albums. He has appeared on several national TV  programs (ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's Early Show, CNN, Fox)  and radio programs (NPR, ABC, BBC)  as a Beatles expert and has given presentations  at the Grammy Museum, the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and Beatles conventions in the U.S. and Liverpool. Bruce serves  a consultant on Beatles projects for  Universal Music Group, Capitol Records, and Apple Corps, Ltd. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1 The Beatles Please Please Their British Fans by Bruce Spizer 50 Beatlemania! Explodes in America by Bruce Spizer 94 Beatlemania! Invades Canada by Piers Hemmingsen 106 Beyond The Beatles & Beyond The Fringe by Al Sussman 132 The Not-So-Dark Ages of Rock ’ n’ Roll by Al Sussman 146 An Experiment in the Mad, Made World of 1963 Film by Frank Daniels 160 Picture Sleeves 164 Fan Recollections 178 Getting to Know the Beatles was Different for U.S. Fans by Bill King 180 Covers That Stand Out in the Shop Window by Bruce Spizer 190 The Decca Audition & Commercial Test by Bruce Spizer 202 The June 6, 1962 EMI Session by Bruce Spizer 206 The First Singles Sessions by Bruce Spizer 220 The Please Please Me & With The Beatles Sessions by Bruce Spizer