Today in Music (1964): The Beatles released Beatles for Sale

Beatles for Sale The Beatles

Released: December 4, 1964 Peak: -- US, 111 UK, -- CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, 1.0 UK, -- world (includes US and UK) Genre: pop/rock

Tracks for Beatles for Sale: Click on a song title for more details. No Reply [2:15] I’m a Loser [2:30] Baby’s in Black [2:04] Rock & Roll Music [2:31] I’ll Follow the Sun [1:49] Mr. Moonlight [2:38] Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! [2:38] Eight Days a Week [2:43] Words of Love [2:04] Honey Don’t [2:57] Every Little Thing [2:04] I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party [2:33] What You’re Doing [2:30] Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby [2:26] Total Running Time: 33:43 Also from This Era: I Feel Fine [2:20] She’s a Woman [2:57] Bad Boy [2:17] The Players: John Lennon (vocals, guitar) Paul McCartney (vocals, bass) George Harrison (guitar, vocals) Ringo Starr (drums, vocals)

Rating for Beatles for Sale: 3.887 out of 5.00 (average of 22 ratings) Quotable: "The group’s most uneven album" – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com …but still with "enough moments sprinkled throughout for anyone to enjoy" - Adrian Denning, Adrian’s Album Reviews Awards for Beatles for Sale:

Beatles ‘65 The Beatles

Released: December 15, 1964 Peak: 19 US, -- UK, 1 CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, -- UK, 4.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: pop/rock

Tracks for Beatles ‘65: Click on a song title for more details. No Reply [2:15] I’m a Loser [2:30] Baby’s in Black [2:04] Rock & Roll Music [2:31] I’ll Follow the Sun [1:49] Mr. Moonlight [2:38] Honey Don’t [2:57] I’ll Be Back [2:24] She’s a Woman [2:57] I Feel Fine [2:20] Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby [2:26] Total Running Time: 26:10 The Players: John Lennon (vocals, guitar) Paul McCartney (vocals, bass) George Harrison (guitar, vocals) Ringo Starr (drums, vocals)

Rating for Beatles ‘65: 4.380 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings) Awards for Beatles ‘65:

Beatles VI The Beatles

Released: June 14, 1965 Peak: 16 US, -- UK, 1 CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: pop/rock

Tracks for Beatles VI: Click on a song title for more details. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! [2:38] Eight Days a Week [2:43] You Like Me Too Much [2:38] Bad Boy [2:17] I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party [2:33] Words of Love [2:04] What You’re Doing [2:30] Yes It Is [2:40] Dizzy Miss Lizzy [2:54] Tell Me What You See [2:39] Every Little Thing [2:04] Total Running Time: 27:45 The Players: John Lennon (vocals, guitar) Paul McCartney (vocals, bass) George Harrison (guitar, vocals) Ringo Starr (drums, vocals)

Rating for Beatles VI: 4.128 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings) Awards for Beatles VI:

About Beatles for Sale: "With the release of Beatles for Sale…the constant spotlight glare of Beatlemania and the accompanying happy, shiny surface was beginning to bear heavily on the Fab Four. The album cover photo shows a very somber and tired-looking band, and the double meaning of the title was lost on only the very naïve." CW "It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something of a shock. Only five months before, the group released the joyous A Hard Day’s Night. Now, they sound beaten, worn, and, in Lennon’s case, bitter and self-loathing." STE "The Beatles were rushed into the studios in between touring to make a new LP in time for the Christmas season of 1964" AD – a de facto deadline imposed by commercial considerations (see title)." JA "Only eight of the fourteen songs here were penned by The Beatles." AD "In desperation, the band fell back on cover versions of 50s rock standards by Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, and Chuck Berry." JA "It’s well-performed" DBW – even "though their voices had been frazzled a bit by constant touring, they revved them up for some joyous shouting, and indulged their fondness for American country in subtle, playful ways." DW Even so, "despite some experimentation with recording effects and instrumentation," JA the covers are "ill-conceived" DW "and the originals are mostly lackluster." DBW After writing everything for A Hard Days Night, "the very presence of six covers…feels like an admission of defeat or at least a regression." STE "Beatles for Sale is usually regarded as a temporary step backwards." AD A couple of cover tunes follow – Buddy Holly’s Words of Love and Carl Perkins’ Honey Don’t, with Ringo’s sole vocal lead on the album. "The mid-section of Beatles for Sale sags and suffers." AD This is "the group’s most uneven album, but its best moments find them moving from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career." STE Besides, even with a lackluster outing, Beatles for Sale "has enough moments sprinkled throughout for anyone to enjoy" AD and, "as a marker of where they were and where they were going, the album is revelatory." CW After all, "the Beatles…instincts for what worked musically were so strong that they could basically do no wrong." DW About Beatles ‘65: In the U.S., Beatles for Sale was broken up over two albums. The first seven cuts and "Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby" were kept for Beatles ‘65 but the other six were replaced with three different cuts. "I’ll Back" was leftover from the UK version of A Hard Day’s Night and the single I Feel Fine / She’s a Woman was used to flesh out the album. The latter are welcome additions, but still don’t make up for the omission of “Eight Days a Week,” the most recognizable cut on Beatles for Sale. About Beatles VI: The other six cuts from Beatles for Sale were held over in the U.S. until the June 1965 release of Beatles VI. Those songs included the "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" medley, "Eight Days a Week," "I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party," "Words of Love," "What You’re Doing," and "Every Little Thing." Three other songs were taken from the U.K. version of Help!, which wasn’t released until August 1965. Those were You Like Me Too Much, Tell Me What You See, and Dizzy Miss Lizzy. The other two songs were Bad Boy and Yes It Is. The former was never released on a UK album and the latter was the B-side of "Ticket to to Ride." Reissues In 2004, the Capitol Records Vol. 1 box set gathered the U.S. albums Meet the Beatles, The Beatles’ Second Album, Something New, and Beatles ‘65 on CD for the first time. In 2006, the Capitol Records Vol. 2 box set gathered the U.S. albums The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help!, and Rubber Soul on CD for the first time. The Songs Here’s information on the individual songs.

No Reply The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 20 CL, 17 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 40.19 streaming About the Song: The "moody No Reply" MU "sounds like a stronger song from With the Beatles." AD

I’m a Loser The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 68 BB, 68 CB, 67 HR, 18 CL, 21 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 14.24 streaming About the Song: I’m a Loser is a "brilliant, remarkably introspective number" JA that "displays a country influence in the guitar picking [and] has a fresh sound and wonderful lyrics throughout." AD

Baby’s in Black The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 47 CL, 36 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 11.63 streaming About the Song: "The harmony-drenched Baby’s in Black" MU "is a weird semi-lilting song with strained sounding vocals perhaps reflecting the pressure these songs were recorded under. [There’s] a guitar solo that sounds all over the place, and not in a good way. Still, it triumphs despite these problems, because the song itself is just that strong." AD

Rock and Roll Music The Beatles

Writer(s): Chuck Berry Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: single (4/6/1965), Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 12 CL, 14 AU, 12 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 23.61 streaming First Recorded by: Chuck Berry (1957, #8 BB, 14 CB, 11 HR, 6 RB)

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About the Song: Of the covers featured on Beatles for Sale, “the most memorable [was] the…frantic" JA and "frenetic, inspired take on Chuck Berry’s ‘Rock and Roll Music.’” CD “It’s a good performance but does give off the ‘whiff’ of something [the group] played literally hundreds of times and ran through ‘just once more’ for the sake of recording." AD In fact, “few songs would last as long in The Beatles’ stage set as this Chuck Berry song. It was first introduced as far back as 1960 at least, and was played countless times at the Cavern, and in Hamburg. It had the distinction of opening the show at their last ever concert, at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, in August 1966.” UD

I’ll Follow the Sun The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 23 CL, 20 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, -- streaming Covered by: David Ball (1995) About the Song: The "cheery I’ll Follow the Sun" STE "is a pretty ballad Paul had written" DBW "pre-Please Please Me," AD "but revived for this project as a last resort." DBW It features "acoustic guitar [and] sweet vocals although lyrically is less sweet with such lines as ‘And now the time has come, and so my love, I must go / And though I lose a friend, in the end you will know, oh’: hardly the stuff of flowers and moonlit romances." AD

Mr. Moonlight The Beatles

Writer(s): Roy Lee Johnson Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 68 BB, 68 CB, 67 HR, 41 CL, 36 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 9.77 streaming First Recorded by: Dr. Feelgood & the Interns (1962) About the Song: Some of the tracks on Beatles for Sale “ended up being among the most widely disliked by Beatles fans” JA – “Lennon’s cover of his beloved obscurity Mr. Moonlight winds up as arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded.”" STE “An alternate take on Anthology 1 demonstrates the challenge of the opening wail. As John misses the note, Paul comments encouragingly: ‘Nearly!’” UD The original was by Dr. Feelgood, originally a blues piano player known as Piano Red who’d worked with Blind Willie McTell. It was the B-side to his eponymous 1962 single which reached a mere #66 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! The Beatles

Writer(s): Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller / Richard Penniman Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965) First Charted: 10/23/1965 Peak: 75 CB, 21 CL, 18 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 9.10 streaming First Recorded by: Little Richard (1958) About the Song: “Kansas City” was first recorded by Little Willie Littlefield in 1952 as “K.C. Loving.” Wilbert Harrison’s 1959 version was a #1 hit. However, Little Richard had recorded the song as early as 1955, finally releasing it as a medley with his own “Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” in 1958 as the B-side of “Good Golly, Miss Molly.” The Beatles’ cover of the song “finds Paul McCartney’s exuberant vocals comparing admirably to his hero Little Richard, providing a vibrant centerpiece." CD Paul talked in 2018 about recording the song: “I remember [John] saying to me, ‘How do you do that, how do you do that?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I feel like it just comes out of the top of my head.’” He continued: “And then we had a session once … and I’m about to do ‘Kansas City,’ so I’m on the mic…and I’m going ‘Ka…Kansas City, cough…’ and I’m not making it, I’m not getting it at all. So John comes down and he says, ‘Remember, it comes out of the top of your head!’ I said, OK, ‘KANSAS CITY…’ And that’s the take you hear.”

Eight Days a Week The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: single (2/15/1965), Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” Peak: 12 BB, 13 CB, 11 GR, 13 HR, 1 CL, 12 CN, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, 33.7 video, 168.23 streaming

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About the Song: "The dynamic" STE Eight Days a Week is a "true pop classic." AD "If the Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ was the first pop song to make artful use of feedback, their next #1 holds its own historical production distinction. ‘Eight Days a Week’ is the first song to open with a fade-in. Spending hours recording the song over and over, the band tried to figure out how to open it up. They settled on that sound: acoustic and electric guitars getting louder and louder, like the sound of a train approaching. They’re playing a riff together, one that sounds a bit like the one Rod Stewart would use on "Maggie May" years later, one that they abandoned as soon as the song kicks in. And maybe it’s too exciting, since the rest of the song never quite measures up." SG "Eight Days a Week" was "written around a phrase that Paul McCartney had heard from a chauffeur. (The guy said he’d been working eight days a week, and poof, a song appeared.) But beyond that goofy title conceit and the fade-in, it’s not a song with a whole lot of ideas. Years later, John Lennon, who’d helped write the song even though McCartney was really the main writer, said that ‘Eight Days a Week’ was both ‘never a good song’ and ‘lousy.’ (For his part, McCartney admitted that he’d swiped the chord progression from the Four Tops’ ‘It’s the Same Old Song.’" SG "Lennon is only right if you think in absolute relative terms. As far as those early Beatles singles go, ‘Eight Days a Week’ was quite possibly the flattest. But compared to almost everything that anyone else was doing, it’s still a banger. It’s a slower song than much of what the band was doing at the time, built on a bright and friendly chug. And sure, the lyric is dumb and simple, and nothing about the song screams genius. But this band was so tuned-in to writing pop music that even a lesser effort was full of these effective little touches: the guitar-stabs that sound like handclaps, the warm and gooey bass tone, the way those harmonies hit on the chorus. The Beatles would go on to do better, but they’d go on to do worse, too." SG

Words of Love The Beatles

Writer(s): Buddy Holly Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965) Peak: 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 14.37 streaming First Recorded by: Buddy Holly (1957) About the Song: Buddy Holly recorded the song first in 1957. While his version wasn’t a hit, a group called The Diamonds took their version to #13 on the Billboard pop charts that same year. Buddy Holly “one of the biggest influences on John and Paul as songwriters. As Paul told Mojo’s Paul du Noyer, ‘The big attraction with Buddy was that he wrote his own stuff… Buddy seemed to write all his own stuff, and it was three chords. For people looking at this idea of writing our own stuff, which we were starting to do, the three-chord idea was great, cos we didn’t know more than four or five.’” UD

Honey Don’t The Beatles

Writer(s): Carl Perkins Lead vocals: Ringo Starr Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 68 BB, 68 CB, 67 HR, 40 CL, 36 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 7.80 streaming First Recorded by: Carl Perkins (1956) About the Song: “While the soundtrack to their first movie, A Hard Day’s Night, was the first Fabs LP to feature entirely self-penned numbers, 1964’s Beatles for Sale album returned to the formula of mixing Lennon/McCartney songs with live favorites. John had sung this Carl Perkins cover since they first brought it into their set in 1962, but Ringo took ownership of it during sessions for the album.” UD Carl Perkins’ original version was first released as the B-side of “Blue Suede Shoes,” a #2 hit on the Billboard pop chart.

Every Little Thing The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965) Peak: 31 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 10.04 streaming Covered by: Yes (1969, 25 CL) About the Song: The "undeservedly unheralded Lennon/McCartney album track Every Little Thing." MU is "a true underrated Beatles gem, a fabulous song led by Paul and mixing in cool clear guitar lines with catchy vocals." AD

I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: B-side of “Eight Days a Week” (2/15/1965), Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965) Peak: 39 BB, 83 CB, 62 HR, 35 CL, 38 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 8.25 streaming Covered by: Rosanne Cash (1989, #1 CW) About the Song: "There are some important changes…most notably Lennon’s discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock," STE Lennon’s "opening trilogy…is the darkest sequence on any Beatles record, setting the tone for the album." STE Those songs, "along with I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party, are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which is a new development." STE

What You’re Doing The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 8.94 streaming

Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby The Beatles

Writer(s): Carl Perkins Lead vocals: George Harrison Released: Beatles for Sale (UK album, 12/4/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 68 BB, 68 CB, 67 HR, 22 CL, 32 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 8.34 streaming First Recorded by: Carl Perkins (1957) About the Song: “George Harrison was such an admirer of the American rockabilly songwriter Carl Perkins that when the early Beatles adopted stage names for their first tour (backing singer Johnny Gentle on a brief stint around Scotland in 1960), George became Carl Harrison. The two guitar heroes would eventually play the song together on a 1985 TV special.” UD George takes the lead on “Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby,” “an average Carl Perkins cover.” AD “Apart from the sound and style of the lead guitar – everything else is very tired and old sounding,” AD “leaving the impression that Beatlemania may have been fun but now the group is exhausted.” STE Carl Perkins is credited with writing the song, which first appeared on Dance Album of Carl Perkins in 1957. However, the rockabilly number is based on a 1936 song written by singer/songwriter Rex Griffin.

I Feel Fine The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: single (11/23/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: “She’s a Woman” Peak: 13 US, 13 CB, 12 GR, 12 HR, 1 CL, 15 UK, 11 CN, 18 AU, 8 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 1.45 UK Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 50.7 video, 117.14 streaming

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About the Song: It only happens for an instant in the opening of "I Feel Fine," but it is – according to John Lennon – "the first time anyone had ever used feedback on a record – not as an accident but as a technique, as a cool sound." SG It happens from "Lennon’s electro-acoustic guitar picking up the feedback from the Paul McCartney bass note that opens the song." SG "It’s historically interesting, it’s a strong gimmick, but it has very little to do with the rest of the record." FT "I Feel Fine" is a sort of early shot from…where they were getting loose and weird and psychedelic but where they were still bringing the ridiculous headrush melodies that made all those teenagers fall in love with them in the first place. They weren’t yet bored with being pop musicians, but they were playing around with what the idea of pop music could be." SG Lennon was the song’s primary writer, building it around a riff from "Watch Your Step," "a 1961 rave-up from the LA blues guitarist Bobby Parker." SG Led Zeppelin later used the riff for "Moby Dick." SG Meanwhile, the drums come from Ray Charles’ "What’d I Say." SG "Around that riff, the band built towering skyward harmonies and tumbling quasi-Latin percussion and a zippy little beauty of a George Harrison guitar solo. The lyrics are simplistic, almost to the point of infantilism, and Lennon himself thought the song was "lousy" before the band recorded it, but it’s a perfect little engine of a pop song." SG

She’s a Woman The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: B-side of “I Feel Fine” (11/23/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 4 BB, 8 CB, 7 HR, 4 CL, 18 AU, 20 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 7.43 streaming Covered by: Jeff Beck (1975)

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Bad Boy The Beatles

Writer(s): Larry Williams Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965), A Collection of Beatles’ Oldies (compilation, 12/9/1966), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 25 CL, 26 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 3.28 streaming First Recorded by: Larry Williams (1958) About the Song: “Recorded at the same session as another Larry Williams number, ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy,’ ‘Bad Boy’ was something of a rarity for British Beatles fans. Released in 1965 on the Capitol US Beatles VI album, it was unavailable in the UK for 18 months, until it appeared on the 1966 compilation A Collection of Beatles Oldies. The Beatles’ version is heavier and more direct than Williams’ original and is notable for Lennon’s uncompromising vocal.”

Resources/References STE AllMusic.com review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine AllMusic.com review by William Ruhlmann JA John Alroy, Wilson & Alroy’s Record Reviews FB Fred Bronson (2007). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (4th edition). Billboard Books: New York, NY. CD CdUniverse.com AD Adrian Denning, Adrian’s Album Reviews FT FreakyTrigger.co.uk (1/25/2005). "Popular (UK #1 Singles)" by Tom Ewing KL Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh. (2005). 1000 UK Number One Hits. Omnibus Press: London, UK. SG Stereogum (7/25/2018). "The Number Ones" by Tom Breihan ("Eight Days a Week") SG Stereogum (7/18/2018). "The Number Ones" by Tom Breihan ("I Feel Fine") UD Udiscovermusic.com (11/4/2024). “Every Cover Version the Beatles Recorded and Released” by Paul McGuinnes MU Marco Ursi CW Cara Wallis, Ink Blot Magazine DBW David Bertrand Wilson, Wilson & Alroy’s Record Reviews DW Douglas Wolk, Amazon.com review by Douglas Wolk Related DMDB Pages: First posted 3/26/2008; last updated 8/20/2025.