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| Length = 34:20 | Label = Parlophone | Producer = George Martin | Last album = ''Beatles for Sale'' (1964) | This album = ''Help!'' (1965) | Next album = ''Rubber Soul'' (1965) | Misc = }} ''Help!'' is the fifth studio album by English rock group the Beatles, and the soundtrack from their film ''Help!'' Produced by George Martin, it contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride", appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven other releases including the most-covered song ever written, "Yesterday". The American release was a true soundtrack album, mixing the first seven songs with instrumental material from the film. Of the other seven songs that were on the British release, two were released on the US version of the next Beatles album, ''Rubber Soul'', two were back-to-back on the next US single and then appeared on ''Yesterday and Today'', and three had already been on ''Beatles VI''. In 2012, ''Help!'' was voted 331st on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: the Beatles, 'Help' )〕 In September 2013, after the British Phonographic Industry changed their sales award rules, the album was declared as having gone platinum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Beatles albums finally go platinum )〕 ==Music== The album features Paul McCartney's "Yesterday", arranged for guitar and string quartet and recorded without the other group members. John Lennon's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" indicates the influence of Bob Dylan and includes flutes. While several compositions on 1964's ''Beatles for Sale'', as well as "I'll Cry Instead" from ''A Hard Day's Night'', had leaned in a country and western direction, McCartney's "I've Just Seen a Face" was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle. "Ticket to Ride", also released as a single, was felt by Lennon to be "heavy" in its sound compared to the group's previous output and daring in its reference to a boy and girl living together. McCartney called the arrangement "quite radical". George Harrison contributed "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much", his first compositions to be included on a Beatles album since "Don't Bother Me" on 1963's ''With the Beatles''. The record contained two cover versions and a few tracks more closely related to the group's previous pop output, yet still marked a decisive step forward. The record sleeve-note shows that Lennon and McCartney made more extensive and prominent use of keyboards, previously played unobtrusively by Martin. Four-track overdubbing technology encouraged this. Lennon, for his part, made much greater use of acoustic guitar, forsaking his famous Rickenbacker. All these developments can be traced to the previous ''Beatles for Sale'', where they were less obvious because that album had been recorded more hastily, lacked chart hits and contained many cover versions. The original LP's format of featuring songs from the soundtrack on side one and non-soundtrack songs on side two follows the format of ''A Hard Day's Night''. In later years, Lennon stated that the album's title track was a sincere cry for help; he regretted changing it from a downbeat, piano-driven ballad to an uptempo pop song, which was done only as a result of commercial pressures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Help! by The Beatles )〕 ''Help!'' was the band's final British album (aside from the late 1966 compilation ''A Collection of Beatles Oldies'') to feature any cover songs until 1970's ''Let It Be'' (which included a performance of the traditional folk song "Maggie Mae"). In 1966, Capitol would release "Act Naturally", already on the British ''Help!'' album, on ''Yesterday and Today''. "Bad Boy" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (both written by Larry Williams and recorded on 10 May 1965, Williams' birthday) were both aimed at the American market and originally not intended to appear on ''Help!'', but "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" ultimately did.〔Keith Badman and Barry Miles, ''The Beatles Diary: The Beatles Years'' (Omnibus Press, 2001), (248 ).〕 Both songs appeared on ''Beatles VI'', released in the US in June 1965. "Bad Boy" was not released in the UK until ''A Collection of Beatles Oldies'', and was that album's only cover song.〔Liner notes, Past Masters vol.1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Help! (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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