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'I Want to Hold Your Hand': Facts About The Beatles' First No. 1 Hit

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to listen to The Beatles catalog from 1963's Please Please Me to 1970's Let It Be, what stands out is the sheer ...
American Songwriter

On This Day: The Beatles Release Their First U.S. No. 1, “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” After a Teenage Girl and Disc Jockey Help Ignite Beatlemania in America

After releasing several singles in the U.S. earlier in the year—”Please Please Me” and “From Me to You” (under Vee-Jay Records) and “She Loves You” (Swan Records)—Capitol finally signed the Beatles ...
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The Beatles’ First U.S. Billboard No.1 Hit Marked the Death of Rock Music

When it comes to number one hits, few bands compare to The Beatles. They had countless chart-topping tracks, both in the UK and in the US, but some were undoubtedly more meaningful than others. In ...
The Cheat Sheet

The Worst Cover of The Beatles’ ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ You’ll Ever Hear

The Beatles‘ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” inspired way too many covers over the past 60 years. One of them came from a fellow British Invasion star who completely missed the song’s appeal. The cover in ...