{"id":9889,"date":"2013-02-11T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2013-02-11T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:47:21","slug":"today-fifty-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/today-fifty-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, Fifty Years Ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; the Beatles recorded their first album:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Please Please Me<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div id=\"editError\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">which in this country nobody wanted to release prudishly\u00a0reading\u00a0the title as a request for giving head&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/he0B0VMxCsw\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"answerContainer\">\n<div id=\"editorText\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recorded \u00a0on 11 February it was released on March 22, 1963 in the UK. An edited version (see above) was released in the US later that year, and retitled\u00a0<i>Introducing the Beatles.<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Songs in this album included:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Anna<\/li>\n<li>Ask Me Why<\/li>\n<li>Baby its You<\/li>\n<li>Boy<\/li>\n<li>Chains<\/li>\n<li>Do you want to know a Secret?<\/li>\n<li>I Saw her Standing there<\/li>\n<li>Love me Do<\/li>\n<li>Misery<\/li>\n<li>Please Please Me<\/li>\n<li>PS I Love You<\/li>\n<li>A Taste of Honey<\/li>\n<li>Theres a Place<\/li>\n<li>Twist and Shout<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Love Me Do&#8221; made the Top Twenty for one week late in 1962 then vanished from the charts. Manager Brian Epstein personally bought 10,000 copies, to give the band a hit; he didn&#8217;t realize that they would have to sell that many every week, to stay in the charts. Industry people caught on quickly, and it nearly ruined the band&#8217;s credibility. The album included their first two singles, plus the B-sides (though &#8220;Love Me Do&#8221; was an alternate take).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the Beatles recorded their first album: Please Please Me which in this country nobody wanted to release prudishly\u00a0reading\u00a0the title as a request for giving head&#8230; Recorded \u00a0on 11 February it was released on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}