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| Length = | Label = Parlophone | Producer = George Martin | This album = ''Please Please Me'' (1963) | Next album = ''With the Beatles'' (1963) | Misc = }} ''Please Please Me'' is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Parlophone rush-released the album on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of the singles "Please Please Me" (No. 1 on most lists but only No. 2 on ''Record Retailer'') and "Love Me Do" (No. 17). Of the album's 14 songs, eight were written by Lennon–McCartney (originally credited "McCartney–Lennon"), early evidence of what ''Rolling Stone'' later called "(invention of ) the idea of the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments." In 2012, ''Please Please Me'' was voted 39th on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." ==Recording== The norm for British 12" vinyl pop albums in 1963 was to have seven songs on each side (American albums usually had five or six songs per side) leaving producer George Martin needing only ten more tracks if he were to include the four sides of the group's first two singles: “I asked them what they had which we could record quickly, and the answer was their stage act” Martin said. He had at first contemplated recording the album live at the Cavern Club in front of the group's home audience and visited the Liverpool club on 9 December 1962 to consider the technicalities (or, as more recent scholarship indicates, on 12 December 1962.)〔Lewisohn, Mark. ''The Beatles: All These Years, Volume One – Tune In''. Crown Archetype, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4000-8305-3, pp. 766, 786–787, 877〕 But when time constraints intervened, he decided to book them at EMI Studios in Abbey Road and record them live there instead. Martin said, "It was a straightforward performance of their stage repertoire—a broadcast, more or less." Initially only a morning and afternoon session were booked; the evening session was added later. Therefore, at 10:00 am on Monday, 11 February 1963, the Beatles began working their way through their live set song by song, the number of takes varying on each, and finished at 10:45 pm—less than 13 hours later— capturing in essence an authentic representation of the band's Cavern Club-era sound. The day ended with a cover of "Twist and Shout," which had to be recorded last because John Lennon had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal would ruin Lennon's voice for the day. This performance, caught on the first take, prompted Martin to say: "I don't know how they do it. We've been recording all day but the longer we go on the better they get." Mark Lewisohn would later write: "There can scarcely have been 585 more productive minutes in the history of recorded music" Paul McCartney double tracked his vocal on "A Taste of Honey" and Lennon added harmonica onto "There's A Place" during these sessions. Martin overdubbed piano on "Misery" and celesta on "Baby It's You" on 20 February during which the Beatles were not present. The song "Hold Me Tight" was recorded during these sessions, but was "surplus to requirements" and not included on the album. "Hold Me Tight" was recorded again on 12 September 1963 for ''With the Beatles''. The whole day's session cost around £400 (£}} as of ). Martin said: "There wasn't a lot of money at Parlophone. I was working to an annual budget of £55,000." This budget had to cover all of the artists on Martin's roster. Individually, under a contract with the Musicians' Union, each Beatle collected a £7 10s (£7.50) session fee for each three-hour session. Martin considered calling the album ''Off the Beatle Track'' before ''Please Please Me'' was released on Parlophone PCS 3042. The album was recorded on a two-track BTR reel-to-reel tape deck, and live in delta mono with most of the instrumentation on one track and the vocals on the other, allowing for a better balance between the two on the final quarter-inch tape mix-down in mono. A stereo mix was made at the same time as the mono mix, with one track on the left channel and the other on the right, as well as an added layer of reverb to better blend the two tracks together. This was common practice for mixing stereo albums at the time. 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「Please Please Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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