by Tim Riley
———. Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles’ Recorded Legacy, Volume One. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008.
Womack, Kenneth. The Long and Winding Road: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. New York: Continuum, 2007.
Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968.
Selected Internet Resources
BAGISM
www.bagism.com/
BEATLE FAN
www.beatlefan.com
BEATLEGS PODCAST
http://dinsdalep.podomatic.com/
BEATLE MONEY
www.beatlemoney.com
BEATLE PHOTO BLOG
http://beatlephotoblog.com/
THE BEATLES (OFFICIAL)
www.beatles.com
THE BEATLES INTERNET ALBUM
www.beatlesagain.com
BEATLES INTERVIEWS
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/
BEATLES LINKS
www.beatlelinks.net/links/
CHILD OF NATURE’S BEATLE PHOTO BLOG
http://childofnaturebeatles.blogspot.com/
THE FEST FOR BEATLE FANS
http://www.thefest.com/
GEORGE MARTIN
pcug.org.au/̃jhenry
IMAGINE PEACE
imaginepeace.com/
JOHN LENNON
www.johnlennon.com/html/news.aspx
JOHN LENNON FBI FILES
www.lennonfbifiles.com/
LENNON FAMILY
http://www.lennon.net/
LIVE: PEACE IN TORONTO
beatles.ncf.ca/live_peace_in_toronto_p1.html
PAUL MCCARTNEY
www.mplcommunications.com/mccartney
PAUL MCCARTNEY CENTRAL
www.macca-central.com
THE QUARRYMEN
www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/
RARE BEATLES
www.rarebeatles.com
SOUNDSCAPES: BEABLIOGRAPHY
http://www.icce.rug.nl/̃soundscapes/BEAB/index.shtml
YOKO ONO
www.yoko-ono.com/
Selected Parlophone/Apple Discography
With the Beatles, John Lennon recorded for the Parlophone label in Britain, a subsidiary of Electrical and Mechanical Industries (EMI) between 1962 and 1970. As the band issued its last recordings on its new company label, Apple, Lennon began his solo career recording with his wife, Yoko Ono, on both Apple and its experimental subsidiary, Zapple, in 1968. During the dissolution of Apple in the early 1970s, Lennon’s solo recordings reverted to the Capitol label in America, and EMI throughout Britain and Europe.
This discography updates the Beatles’ catalog for the digital era, using all the UK track sequences. However, to correspond with this narrative, the original British release dates and catalog numbers have been used to provide a succinct chronology. All Beatles’ songs are by Lennon-McCartney except where indicated. For clarity, bootlegs, repetitions, and unnecessary overlaps between singles, albums, and compilations have been omitted. For a complete Beatle discography, consult Mark Lewisohn’s The Recording Sessions (Harmony, 1988). The most recent editions, usually referred to as the 2009 Remasters, rank with the best digital mastering, and continue to reward close listening in both mono and stereo.
Lennon’s solo singles listing appears at the end, with chart numbers from both the U.S. and the UK to diagram his cross-Atlantic persona. For a complete Lennon solo discography, see Chip Madinger and Mark Easter’s Eight Arms to Hold You (44.1 Productions, 2000).
THE BEATLES
“Love Me Do” / “P.S. I Love You” (Parlophone R 4949)
October 5, 1962
“Please Please Me” / “Ask Me Why” (Parlophone R 4983)
January 11, 1963
PLEASE PLEASE ME (Parlophone PCS 3042)
March 22, 1963
Side 1
“I Saw Her Standing There”
“Misery”
“Anna (Go to Him)” (Alexander)
“Chains” (Goffin-King)
“Boys” (Dixon-Ferrell)
“Ask Me Why”
“Please Please Me”
Side 2
“Love Me Do”
“P.S. I Love You”
“Baby It’s You” (David-Bacharach-Williams)
“Do You Want to Know a Secret?”
“A Taste of Honey” (Marlow-Scott)
“There’s a Place”
“Twist and Shout” (Russell-Medley)
“From Me to You / Thank You Girl” (Parlophone R 5015)
April 11, 1963
TONY SHERIDAN WITH THE BEATLES (Polydor EPH21610) EP
July 12, 1963
Side A:
“My Bonnie” (with Tony Sheridan) / “The Saints” (with Tony Sheridan)
Side B:
“Why” (with Tony Sheridan) / “Cry for a Shadow”
WITH THE BEATLES (Parlophone PCS3045)
November 22, 1963
Side 1
“It Won’t Be Long”
“All I’ve Got to Do”
“All My Loving”
“Don’t Bother Me” (Harrison)
“Little Child”
“Till There Was You” (Willson)
“Please Mr. Postman” (Holland-Bateman-Gordy)
Side 2
“Roll Over Beethoven” (Berry)
“Hold Me Tight”
“You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” (Robinson)
“I Wanna Be Your Man”
“Devil in Her Heart” (Drapkin)
“Not a Second Time”
“Money” (Gordy-Bradford)
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” / “This Boy” (Parlophone R 5084)
November 29, 1963
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (Parlophone PCS 3058)
July 10, 1964
Side 1
“A Hard Day’s Night”
“I Should Have Known Better”
“If I Fell”
“I’m Happy Just to Dance with You”
“And I Love Her”
“Tell Me Why”
“Can’t Buy Me Love”
Side 2
“Any Time at All”
“I’ll Cry Instead”
“Things We Said Today”
“When I Get Home”
“You Can’t Do That”
“I’ll Be Back”
“I Feel Fine” / “She’s a Woman” (Parlophone R 5200)
November 27, 1964
BEATLES FOR SALE (Parlophone PCS 3062)
December 4, 1964
Side 1
“No Reply”
“I’m a Loser”
“Baby’s in Black”
“Rock and Roll Music” (Berry)
“I’ll Follow the Sun”
“Mr. Moonlight” (Johnson)
“Kansas City”/“Hey Hey Hey” (Leiber-Stoller/Penniman)
Side 2
“Eight Days a Week”
“Words of Love” (Holly)
“Honey Don’t” (Perkins)
“Every Little Thing”
“I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party”
“What You’re Doing”
“Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby” (Perkins)
“Help!” / “I’m Down” (Parlophone R 5305)
July 23, 1965
HELP! (Parlophone PCS 3071)
August 6, 1965
Side 1
“Help!”
“The Night Before”
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
“I Need You” (Harrison)
“Another Girl”
“You’re Going to Lose That Girl”
“Ticket to Ride”
Side 2
“Act Naturally” (Russell-Morrison)
“It’s Only Love”
“You Like Me Too Much” (Harrison)
“Tell Me What You See”
“I’ve Just Seen a Face”
“Yesterday”
“Dizzy Miss Lizzie” (Williams)
RUBBER SOUL (Par
lophone PCS 3075)
December 3, 1965
Side 1
“Drive My Car”
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
“You Won’t See Me”
“Nowhere Man”
“Think for Yourself” (Harrison)
“The Word”
“Michelle”
Side 2
“What Goes On”
“Girl”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“In My Life”
“Wait”
“If I Needed Someone” (Harrison)
“Run for Your Life”
“We Can Work It Out” / “Day Tripper” (Parlophone R 5389)
December 3, 1965
“Paperback Writer” / “Rain” (Parlophone R 5452)
June 10, 1966
REVOLVER (Parlophone PCS 7009)
August 5, 1966
Side 1
“Taxman” (Harrison)
“Eleanor Rigby”
“I’m Only Sleeping”
“Love You To” (Harrison)
“Here, There and Everywhere”
“Yellow Submarine”
“She Said She Said”
Side 2
“Good Day Sunshine”
“And Your Bird Can Sing”
“For No One”
“Dr. Robert”
“I Want to Tell You” (Harrison)
“Got To Get You into My Life”
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
“Strawberry Fields Forever” / “Penny Lane” (Parlophone R 5570)
February 17, 1967
SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (Parlophone PCS 7027)
June 1, 1967
Side 1
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
“With a Little Help from My Friends”
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
“Getting Better”
“Fixing a Hole”
“She’s Leaving Home”
“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”
Side 2
“Within You Without You” (Harrison)
“When I’m Sixty-four”
“Lovely Rita”
“Good Morning, Good Morning”
“Lonely Hearts Club Band” (reprise)
“A Day in the Life”
“All You Need Is Love” / “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” (Parlophone R 5620)
July 7, 1967
“Hello, Goodbye” / “I Am the Walrus” (Parlophone R 5655)
November 24, 1967
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (Parlophone SMMT1/2 MONO) 2 EPs
December 8, 1967
Side A:
“Magical Mystery Tour” / “Your Mother Should Know”
Side B:
“I Am the Walrus” / “No You’re Not” (speech)
Side C:
“The Fool on the Hill” / “Flying” (instrumental)
Side D:
“Blue Jay Way” (Harrison)
“Lady Madonna” / “The Inner Light” (Parlophone R 5675)
March 15, 1968
“Hey Jude” / “Revolution” (Apple R 5722)
August 30, 1968
THE BEATLES (“White Album”) (Apple PCS 7067/8)
November 22, 1968
Side 1/Disc 1
“Back in the USSR”
“Dear Prudence”
“Glass Onion”
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
“Wild Honey Pie”
“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Harrison)
“Happiness Is a Warm Gun”
Side 2/Disc 1
“Martha My Dear”
“I’m So Tired”
“Blackbird”
“Piggies” (Harrison)
“Rocky Raccoon”
“Don’t Pass Me By” (Starkey)
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”
“I Will”
“Julia”
Side 3/Disc 2
“Birthday”
“Yer Blues”
“Mother Nature’s Son”
“Everybody’s Got Something to Hide, Except Me and My Monkey”
“Sexy Sadie”
“Helter Skelter”
“Long, Long, Long” (Harrison)
Side 4/Disc 2
“Revolution 1”
“Honey Pie”
“Savoy Truffle” (Harrison)
“Cry Baby Cry”
“Revolution No. 9”
“Good Night”
“Get Back” / “Don’t Let Me Down” (Apple R 5777)
April 11, 1969
“The Ballad of John and Yoko” / “Old Brown Shoe” (Apple R 5786)
May 30, 1969
YELLOW SUBMARINE (Apple PCS 7070)
January 17, 1969
Side 1
“Yellow Submarine”
“Only a Northern Song” (Harrison)
“All Together Now”
“Hey Bulldog”
“It’s All Too Much” (Harrison)
“All You Need Is Love”
Side 2
“George Martin Orchestra: Pepperland”
“Medley: Sea of Time/Sea of Holes”
“Sea of Monsters”
“March of the Meanies”
“Pepperland Laid Waste”
“Yellow Submarine in Pepperland”
ABBEY ROAD (Apple PCS 7088)
September 26, 1969
Side 1
“Come Together”
“Something” (Harrison)
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
“Oh! Darling”
“Octopus’s Garden” (Starkey)
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
Side 2
“Here Comes the Sun” (Harrison)
“Because”
“You Never Give Me Your Money”
“Sun King”
“Mean Mr. Mustard”
“Polythene Pam”
“She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”
“Golden Slumbers”
“Carry That Weight”
“The End”
“Her Majesty”
“Let It Be” / “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)” (Apple R 5833)
March 6, 1970
LET IT BE (Apple PXS I)
May 8, 1970
Side 1
“Two of Us”
“Dig a Pony”
“Across the Universe”
“I Me Mine” (Harrison)
“Dig It”
“Let It Be”
“Maggie Mae” (trad.—arr. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey)
Side 2
“I’ve Got a Feeling”
“One After 909”
“The Long and Winding Road”
“For You Blue” (Harrison)
“Get Back”
THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY series
The Beatles, ANTHOLOGY 1 (Apple CDPCSP 727)
20 November 1995
“Free As a Bird”
“That’ll Be the Day” (Allison, Petty, Holly)
“Hallelujah, I Love Her So” (Charles)
“You’ll Be Mine”
“Cayenne” (McCartney)
“My Bonnie” (traditional)
“Ain’t She Sweet” (Ager-Yellen)
“Cry for a Shadow” (Lennon, Harrison)
“Searchin’ ” (Leiber-Stoller)
“Three Cool Cats”
“The Sheik of Araby” (Smith, Wheeler, Snyder)
“Like Dreamers Do”
“Hello Little Girl”
“Bésame Mucho” (Velázquez, Skylar)
“Love Me Do”
“How Do You Do It” (Murray)
“Please Please Me”
“One After 909”
“One After 909”
“Lend Me Your Comb” (Twomey, Wise, Weisman)
“I’l
l Get You”
“I Saw Her Standing There”
“From Me to You”
“Money (That’s What I Want)” (Gordy-Bradford)
“You Really Got a Hold on Me” (Robinson)
“Roll Over Beethoven” (Berry)
The Beatles, ANTHOLOGY 2 (Apple CDPCSP728)
March 18, 1996
Disc One
“Real Love”
“Yes It Is”
“I’m Down”
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
“If You’ve Got Trouble”
“That Means a Lot”
“Yesterday”
“It’s Only Love”
“I Feel Fine”
“Ticket to Ride”
“Yesterday”
“Help!”
Blackpool Night Out television broadcast
“Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby” (Perkins)
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“12-Bar Original” (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
“Got to Get You into My Life”
“And Your Bird Can Sing”
“Taxman” (Harrison)
“Eleanor Rigby”
“I’m Only Sleeping”
“I’m Only Sleeping”
“Rock and Roll Music” (Chuck Berry)
“She’s a Woman”
Disc Two
“Strawberry Fields Forever” (demo sequence)
“Strawberry Fields Forever” (take 1)
“Strawberry Fields Forever” (take 7 & edit piece)
“Penny Lane”
“A Day in the Life”
“Good Morning Good Morning”
“Only a Northern Song” (Harrison)
“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!”
“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” (take 7 & effects tape)
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
“Within You Without You” (Harrison)
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”
“You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)”
“I Am the Walrus”
“The Fool on the Hill”
“Your Mother Should Know”
“The Fool on the Hill”
“Hello, Goodbye”
“Lady Madonna”
“Across the Universe”
The Beatles, ANTHOLOGY 3 (Apple CDPCSP 729)
October 28, 1996
Disc One
“Happiness Is a Warm Gun”
“Helter Skelter”
“Mean Mr. Mustard”
“Polythene Pam”
“Glass Onion”
“Junk” (McCartney)
“Piggies” (Harrison)
“Honey Pie”
“Don’t Pass Me By” (Starkey)
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
“Good Night”
“Cry Baby Cry”
“Blackbird”
“Sexy Sadie”
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Harrison)
