![]() ![]() By then Harrison and Lennon had already released solo stuff. Paul McCartney went solo only after The Beatles group broke up. ![]() In the US, The Beatles broke similar records. Only one of them was not in the Top 2 - Something in 1969 - and 17 topped the charts (including 11 consecutive #1s). Soon they’d know better.Īfter Please Please Me reached #2 in early 1963, The Beatles notched up 21 more UK Top 5 hits until they split in 1970. Nobody would have had a clue that just over three years later, this group would record something as pioneering as Tomorrow Never Knows, or that this group would become the biggest band in the world for six years.įor all the record-buyers of October 1962 knew, Love Me Do might have been the only thing ever worth buying by these lads from Liverpool - in as far as many people thought even this was worth owning, as the chart position of #11 suggests. Nobody in October 1962 could have predicted what madness would ensue the following year. It’s strange to think that there was a brief time when The Beatles were selling records but Beatlemania didn’t yet exist. The #1 hit that week was Telstar by the Tornados, followed in the Top 5 by Little Eva’s The Loco-motion, Tommy Roe’s Sheila, Carole King’s It Might As Well Rain Until September (a good week for King, with two Top 5 hits), and, down from #2, She’s Not You by Elvis (a song I don’t even know). ![]() Shannon and Maughan went on to hit the Top 3 The Beatles stalled at #11 (and Little Richard flopped at #38). It debuted in the Top 50 at #49, the fourth-highest new entry that week, after Swiss Maid by Del Shannon, Bobby’s Girl by Susan Maughan, and He Got What He Wanted by Little Richard. On October 11 it is 60 years ago that The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, entered the UK charts, the week after its release. ![]()
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