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The Beatles- BEATLES FOR SALE- CD- 1964/1995-
- Parlophone Records/Apple Corps. Ltd./EMI Records Ltd.- 077774643825- 400 grn
BEATLES FOR SALE is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 4th December 1964 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label. The album marked a departure The Beatles from the upbeat tone, partly due to the band's exhaustion after a series of tours that had established them as a worldwide phenomenon in 1964. BEATLES FOR SALE was not widely available in the US until 1987, when the Beatles' catalogue was standardised for release on CD. Instead, eight of the album's fourteen tracks appeared on Capitol Records' concurrent release, Beatles '65, issued in North America only. Partly as a result of the group's hectic schedule, only eight of the tracks are original compositions, with cover versions of songs by artists such as Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Little Richard being used to complete the album. The downbeat mood of BEATLES FOR SALE was reflected in the album cover, which shows the unsmiling, weary-looking Beatles in an autumn scene in London's Hyde Park. The cover carried no band logo or artist credit, and the album title was rendered in minuscule type compared with standard LP artwork of the time. On 26th February 1987, BEATLES FOR SALE was officially released on compact disc (catalogue number CDP 7 46438 2), as were the band's first three albums. Even though BEATLES FOR SALE was recorded on four-track tape, the first CD version was available only in mono.
PERSONNEL: John Lennon – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic and rhythm guitars, harmonica, tambourine, handclaps; Paul McCartney – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals, bass and acoustic guitars, piano, Hammond organ, handclaps; George Harrison – harmony and backing vocals, lead (6- and 12-string) and acoustic guitars, African drum, handclaps, lead vocals; Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, maracas, timpani, cowbell, packing case, bongos, lead vocals; George Martin – piano.
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. His opening trilogy ("No Reply", "I'm A Loser", "Baby's In Black") is the darkest sequence on any Beatles record, setting the tone for the album. Moments of joy pop up now and again, mainly in the forms of covers and the dynamic "Eight Days A Week", but the very presence of six covers after the triumphant all-original A Hard Day's Night feels like an admission of defeat or at least a regression. It doesn't help that Lennon's cover of his beloved obscurity "Mr. Moonlight" winds up as arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded. Beneath those surface suspicions, however, there are some important changes on BEATLES FOR SALE, most notably Lennon's discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock. The opening three songs, along with "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party", are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which is a new development. This spirit winds up overshadowing McCartney's cheery "I'll Follow The Sun" or the thundering covers of "Rock & Roll Music", "Honey Don't" and "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" and the weariness creeps up in unexpected places - "Every Little Thing", "What You're Doing", even George's cover of Carl Perkins' "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" - leaving the impression that Beatlemania may have been fun but now the group is exhausted. That exhaustion results in 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.
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