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Beatles Firsts
- The Beatles first U.S. Concert was in Washington D.C.
- The Beatles first U.S. #1 hit with Billboard was “I Want To Hold Your Hand”. It reached #1 on 2/1/64, just 8 days before their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show
- The Beatles first U.K. #1 (on any chart) hit was “Please Please Me” on 3/2/63
- The First Beatle album to contain nothing but Lennon/McCartney compositions was A Hard Days Night
- Allan Williams was the Beatles first manager
- Pete Best was their first drummer
- Stu Sutcliffe was their first bass player
- The first Beatles song to chart with Billboard in the U.S. was “From Me To You” on 8/3/63 released by Vee Jay Records. They would not hit Billboard’s chart again until 1/18/64 when “I Want To Hold Your Hand” entered the chart at #45
- The first Beatles song to chart with Melody Maker in the U.K. was “Love Me Do” on 10/27/62
- The first non-Beatles artist to hit the U.K.’s Melody Maker chart with a Beatles song was Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas with “Do You Want to Know a Secret” in May of 1963
- The first non-Beatles artist to hit the U.S’s Billboard chart was Peter and Gordon with “A World Without Love” in May of 1964
- The first Beatles song to employ an outside musician was “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.” EMI arranger, Johnnie Scott played the flute.
- The first all acoustic Beatles song was “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
- The first Beatles song to be influenced by Bob Dylan was “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”, pretty interesting song.
- The first Lennon/McCartney song NOT about love was “Help”
- The first person to appear ♫On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone♫ was John Lennon
- “ I Feel Fine” contained the first intentional use of feedback (yes, it was intentional despite the press reporting it as a electronic mistake)
- The first Beatles song with a faded-up intro was “Eight Days A Week”
- George’s first composition was “Don’t Bother Me”
- The first time a satellite was used to broadcast something worldwide was the Beatles live performance of “All You Need Is Love” in June of 1967.
- The Beatles were the first to do a stadium concert in August of 1965 from Shea Stadium
- “Can’t Buy Me Love” was the Beatles first song with just one singer
- “Can’t Buy Me Love” was the first record to sell a million copies before its release
- Beatlemania! With the Beatles was the Beatles first album released in Canada and North America. It was issued by Capitol Records of Canada on 11/23/63
- “My Bonnie/The Saints” by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers (The Beatles) was the first released record that the Beatles appeared on. It was released in October of 1961 and reached #5 on the German Hit Parade
- The Beatles first North American release was “Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You” a Capitol of Canada 45 released on 2/4/63
- George was the first Beatles to visit America. He visited his sister, Louise, in Benton Illinois in September of 1963
- Julian Lennon was the first Beatle child, born on April 8, 1963
- The first Beatle to record a solo Number one hit was George Harrison with “My Sweet Lord” in January 1971
Beatles Facts and Firsts
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