After a few weeks of going up, then down, then back up and down again, it finally peaked at No.17 in the last week of 1962. And so it was that the first Beatles single, “Love Me Do”/“PS I Love You,” was issued in the U.K. “I picked up on “Love Me Do” mainly because of the harmonica sound,” Martin later recalled. Once Brian had secured them a short contract with George Martin’s Parlophone Records, a subsidiary of EMI, the producer began looking into which songs to include on their first single. It was a customer’s request for that recording that led to Liverpool record-shop owner Brian Epstein tracking down and eventually managing The Beatles. Credited as The Beat Brothers, John, Paul, George and Pete Best backed the English singer Tony Sheridan on a rocked-up version of “My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean,” which was released on Polydor in West Germany. The group had actually recorded a single even before signing with Parlophone. With pop music still primarily a singles market in the mid-60s, The Beatles’ singles, then, offer something of a parallel discography: a different lens through which to trace their artistic trajectory. The Beatles may have helped shift the focus from singles to long-playing albums, but at the start of their career they were, first and foremost, a band that made phenomenal singles, many of which didn’t actually appear on their albums. When we look back at The Beatles’ career, it’s only natural that we trace their progress through the groundbreaking albums they made between 19.
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