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Beatles For Sale (1964)

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Exhausted from non-stop touring and making a movie, the Beatles were able to provide 8 original Lennon/McCartney songs for Beatles For Sale rush released for the 1964 Christmas season. And the songs showed their exhaustion, with titles like “I’m A Loser” and “Eight Days A Week” which, although a love song, is titled after a “Ringoism.” New horizons were reached in the songwriting, especially by John, who was beginning to be influenced by Bob Dylan and by journalist Kenneth Allsop, who told John that he “wasn’t terrible enamored with Beatles’ songs because they all tended to be ‘she loves him’, ‘he loves her’, ‘they love her’, and ‘I love her’.” Allsop encouraged John to not mask his feelings, but to just speak out on what he really felt. It was the earliest sign of the heights the band would take their music. The initial 1987 CD release was mono only, and the 2009 remastered edition was issued in stereo while the mono mix was included in the Beatles In Mono box set.

Track list

Side A

Side B

Release history

Parlophone PMC 1240 (mono), released December 4, 1964
Parlophone PCS 3062 (stereo), released December 4, 1964
Parlophone PMCO1240 (mono), released February 11, 1965 (Australia)
Parlophone PCSO3062 (stereo), released February 11, 1965 (Australia)
Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-104 (vinyl), released February 1987
Parlophone CDP 7 46438 2 (mono CD), released February 26, 1987
Apple 0946 3 82414 2 3 (remastered stereo CD), released September 9, 2009
Parlophone PMC 1240 (remastered mono CD), released September 9, 2009 in The Beatles In Mono box set