The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” rises up the charts: Blogging the Beatles, 50 years later.

Publicity photo of the Beatles with producer George Martin in the studio at Abbey Road. Only John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney are pictured. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Photo taken by me of 1963 Parlophone Beatles LP to show the Gold and Black label. This version is cropped and replaces and uncropped version. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” rises up the charts: Blogging the Beatles, 50 years later.:

 "The first time the Beatles recorded the song, it hadn’t gone so well. While its fresh sound caused the ears of the Parlophone Records crew to perk up, it would take something more to convince producer George Martin. As MacDonald tells it, after Martin picked apart everything that had been wrong with their performance, he asked them if there was anything they didn’t like. “Well, for a start,” George Harrison said, “I don’t like your tie.” The Beatles persisted in comedy mode for the next 20 minutes, leaving the Parlophone team “literally crying with laughter, a factor which, more than anything else, seems to have induced Martin to sign the group.”"

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