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A1HLMLPCDPH09Y "Anna (Go To Him)" (30-second clip) - from the album "Please Please Me" 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/92f4cf59de0a7c1be382505bcb315abc30b6ec39-1893685489?e=1338236368&h=cdf387181eaef9a333dc2a25bf95df96 Please Please Me HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
ABZURFI2POQ0T "Twist And Shout" (30-second clip) - from the album "Please Please Me" 30067 mp3:s/production/tracks/49396a74453fa8bc3c172f0d0e3e67fcbe6efa66-1248059738?e=1338236368&h=6937459cf1ec368db3485019dca8bd56 Please Please Me HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
AA91B5188L84P "Taxman" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/8d2353ad8a71348cf23d3213eb56bfebba6a2532-1808870208?e=1338236368&h=567a4f719e763303fc5a4fba093b1ecd Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A18TP396I3UY8A "Eleanor Rigby" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/f40798f497750e8b102cdb293128342e62404162-249363271?e=1338236368&h=5248f5a637a9190f7c50f23e21a09412 Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A3VZN2B38DUNKP "I'm Only Sleeping" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30093 mp3:s/production/tracks/572e38548ba53bd2fbdd1f187eb5f676b33c0519-995243448?e=1338236368&h=e8fc9553f38753ea1b21b8b0a9f0524b Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A3C4BU5UZJDDFE "Love You To" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/705d2c7ba3e15932fab085d3a314bd556f31e95b-795836542?e=1338236368&h=943669b29f9838d3e3c9a7a972753c29 Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A3OLU0RIJV1W5I "Here, There, and Everywhere" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30015 mp3:s/production/tracks/466e7805973b2441490b8b9f2f57e06d7905684e-676803901?e=1338236368&h=46361f02675dcb42cc791f1c4ac7dd14 Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1NQZ7KPGARY5H "Good Day Sunshine" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/39fe63745354d9cdae01159b42e4066309dadb0e-1809636887?e=1338236368&h=310e50b4082ce8b7a8e562244263adf6 Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2EU16CZI2POAV "And Your Bird Can Sing" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/6a715bb2046aba02d94e6caccf18398b24184e26-522643042?e=1338236368&h=dff7a8880e445b30142c03dc1ef64902 Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2RELU94NM7RWI "For No One" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/315c49c202370c8726cdf31a981a84ddbe82e180-1545674980?e=1338236368&h=ddd02c188b433c73c87016db97177b5f Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A3PJLKSKNAQDKQ "Dr. Robert" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/5566571a143f5b4998130d574139273d4a6e3ebe-1855229847?e=1338236368&h=547ede4856a292560281f28f7d54ccfb Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2M4IK3DP8Q2B9 "I Want to Tell You" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/f1582cb4a89cf1160e09ff9ff46c43e6db421a89-341718720?e=1338236368&h=58393eb3ff2bd87b294c410e966d0442 Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2PY3N3EUO0P12 "Got to Get You Into My Life" (30-second clip) - from the album "Revolver" (Remastered) 30067 mp3:s/production/tracks/414a8e19681a2cd3fd70a07f115d4b7a80370c58-1958507088?e=1338236368&h=f617962c4a7ce14b8b1e94b9acc6e52c Revolver HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
AXWZ8O6TBUQYS "Back in the U.S.S.R." (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/2fe410494259be60da418063bb6dff9231f1592d-1649112875?e=1338236368&h=194fbf92a82385abb93b4d6cbe17132c The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1SD38LXDIEUL7 "Dear Prudence" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/04765b8925c8cff1e56d10941c54d242c85c7e92-789679938?e=1338236368&h=ca01a9895b1daaeee8dfb11854d451ac NONE NOT_IN_CART
AWNO6YPFC8Z4T "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/26a77a2ae9ff2dc04d6eee7e13e4f3bebbb94805-227023128?e=1338236368&h=2c7762c57b317a83ba2ddf71198c3267 The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A21JV1D4BN8HQY "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/3af7a25e6e0e960a8062bf547b808e71ac8072e2-769054401?e=1338236368&h=b353e42f7977c924b7891d16f2105c04 The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1XVE3MSFXX4AR "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/a42bebd6b8315edd92b1b53a10094274acfde289-1150453244?e=1338236368&h=2374e589abf63af7475942c4028222a2 The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2IJL4HZM17Y91 "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/2de7a624398262a5a346735d0ff39d1d00405e2a-1921510362?e=1338236368&h=9f48094aba58c12c74139d875f31c976 The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1A459BBCYSF7R "Martha My Dear" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 29780 mp3:s/production/tracks/90be413ed4bea6cba331bb9c6271c60623fcbe9a-1761082526?e=1338236368&h=5c5cd8813e20b6a00287201c30c244aa The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1Z1KVQY9LORB2 "Blackbird" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/19bcd3a6e22da12f8b9502d1cf1dceb4d7306051-1333672336?e=1338236368&h=c8ea84b25fb9e8ced8ccc30b7ce8613b The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2U0389NPQZBNR "Piggies" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/3745beeca3ee3c103fd55ef8a4b36f37f2853df5-1939738640?e=1338236368&h=4a291798aa56b6c59b8b3f857cdcef6c The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2VLOYCK72UM0P "Rocky Racoon" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/218104d3b547d572a03b9b36f974e7255288f73c-1015197178?e=1338236368&h=bc5c509e7a96f9e4e534f6ef1012a84a The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
AS5JVZ0BUSBZ6 "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/f2bec43dea3cfd68dbdc8f6962b31f44a1e45328-1268749852?e=1338236368&h=bfd2c70ee8e786e7c37c55db16bc59f7 The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1UVVEE8FI7MZJ "Julia" (30-second clip) - from "The White Album" (Remastered), Disc 1 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/c44735e64a2ba2e61c05e2ca9959dd914f8e2c4e-1549519766?e=1338236368&h=e8093cf953862b5d3685f42649c6dd02 The White Album HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A22YSI0RH0GQPJ "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (30-second clip) from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Remastered) 30067 mp3:s/production/tracks/6244a75e46ca0ffdaa3945fd26377e23062ae97e-792152703?e=1338236368&h=3e05716ddaf97a61b160d7c5892e8a79 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2K7E0JZMKWRPT "With a Little Help from My Friends" (30-second clip) from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/3faf6f5c0fb90cf94f1a1063c01df2950a2134b3-749917579?e=1338236368&h=7a2e5e9138ae43c98cdbcf7384c26b88 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A10R7XM20Z0323 "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (30-second clip) - from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Remastered) 30067 mp3:s/production/tracks/3fb03246d1e69765a14d218589588c5ba9b0028f-1887302190?e=1338236368&h=c07004e7814e68bf96811b47b4d9873e Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A2ZA1ISR8RH3JO "A Day in the Life" (30-second clip) - from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Remastered) 30041 mp3:s/production/tracks/d1222357777f6f27d6ba6e2cca01574f4a049dfc-222256489?e=1338236368&h=9665310c59418cfc81406023751c42bf Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band HYPERLINK_ALBUM NOT_IN_CART
A1K0VIFGKZKSE PODCAST SPECIAL: Interview with Abbey Road Engineers Allan Rouse and Paul Hicks - part 1 577045 mp3:s/production/tracks/c96912ee0701043d806b2ef6ee95949ea510a947-570425424?e=1338236368&h=b089920880bea13afbe547d4687ec369 NONE NOT_IN_CART
A7LUX0FAUDG19 PODCAST SPECIAL: Interview with Abbey Road Engineers Allan Rouse and Paul Hicks - part 2 606041 mp3:s/production/tracks/ba58453cdf9fc4c4b5b89624c3e99e70def87959-1592724718?e=1338236368&h=b2b5a045602862d48f9a77c0c15830f7 NONE NOT_IN_CART

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"The story began in Harold Macmillan’s “never had it so good” ’50s Britain. It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O’Levels between them, running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in search of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any gig at all.
They were determined to amount to something – in George’s words “we just had this amazing inner feeling of: ‘We’re going to do it’. I don’t know why... we were just cocky” – and make a record (in Ringo’s words you’d kill for that bit of plastic and make some money and have a laugh and shout.… Read more

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The Beatles were the biggest musical phenomenon of the 20th century, being largely responsible for inventing pop music as we know it. No other musical act has been as critically praised or as commercially successful, and only Elvis Presley's emergence in the mid-50s can compete with the Beatles' in terms of width or depth of cultural influence. Comprising song-writing team John Lennon and Paul McCartney (also vocals and rhythm/bass guitar), George Harrison (lead guitar) and Ringo Starr (drums), the Beatles emerged from Liverpool in England in the early 60s. Soon they were international pop superstars, prompting screams from hysterical teenagers wherever they went across the world (this reaction was dubbed 'Beatlemania'). As well as becoming international pop celebrities, the Beatles did more than anyone else to push the boundaries of pop music, both in terms of recording techniques, and compositional aspects such as structure and melody. In these early days of pop music, the Beatles showed it could be an art form of no less essential worth than jazz or classical music.

The Beatles are widely believed to have sold more records than any other musician or musical group in history. In 1985, before their albums were re-issued on CD, their record label EMI announced that they had sold over one billion (1,000,000,000) units of Beatles music. The Beatles recorded dozens of internationally famous songs - among 17 singles that topped the UK Charts are classics like: "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Ticket to Ride", "Paperback Writer", "All You Need is Love", "Hey Jude" and "Get Back". In the US they achieved 20 No.1 singles. Other well-known songs include: "Eleanor Rigby", "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "A Day in the Life", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I am the Walrus". "Yesterday", which reached No.1 in the USA, is possibly the most covered song of all time (with over 3000 recorded cover versions), and was the most performed song of the century (it was estimated to have been performed over seven million times).

The Beatles were also one of the first bands to take albums seriously (as opposed to just singles). They released 12 proper albums in their 10 year career, almost all of which are hugely critically acclaimed. Generally, five of their later albums are considered their best, with most fans able to choose a favourite from: Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (aka The White Album) (1968) or Abbey Road (1969). Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's often top 'best of all-time' lists, while the other three are regularly placed in the Top 50 of similar surveys. Other notable albums include: their debut, Please Please Me (1963); With The Beatles (1963); A Hard Day's Night (1964); and Magical Mystery Tour (1967).

As well as their influence on music, the Beatles have also had a massive influence on fashion and culture. The 60s saw a world of increasing independence and hedonism, and a burgeoning western economy boosting the spending power of the young. The Beatles provided an aspirational focus for the rise of the 'independent teenager', their every clothing choice or verbal statement directly influencing the views and attitudes of fans. Their mop-top haircuts were widely copied at the height of their popularity, and whatever they wore suddenly became a popular look worldwide.

But perhaps the Beatles' biggest contribution to western culture was that, in appealing so very much to so many people, they boosted the popularity of 'pop' music to the extent that it became the pre-eminent art form to the vast majority of ordinary people (as it still is today). Recorded music was becoming a source of enjoyment and a unifying force for millions anyway, but the music of the Beatles unified hundreds of millions of people unlike anything else in history.

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