Their first album was released March 23, 1963 (in the UK). The oldest of The Beatles at this time was 23 years! Did you know they recorded their debut album in ONE DAY! Because they had so much experience performing live, they just went in the studio and laid it down. It's estimated they had played 1200 live shows before "Please Please Me" album. Lennon-McCartney writing team had many great songs on this album, but it still included several covers, including one written by Carol King (Chains), and another by Burt Bacharach (Baby It's You).
Initially, George Martin had only a morning and afternoon session booked; the evening session was added later. Therefore, at 10:00 am on Monday, 11 February 1963, the Beatles began working their way through their live set song by song, the number of takes varying on each, and finished at 10:45 pm—less than 13 hours later— capturing in essence an authentic representation of the band's Cavern Club-era sound. The day ended with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because John Lennon had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal would ruin Lennon's voice for the day. This performance, caught on the FIRST TAKE!, prompted Martin to say: "I don't know how they do it. We've been recording all day but the longer we go on the better they get." Mark Lewisohn (historian/author) would later write: "There can scarcely have been 585 more productive minutes in the history of recorded music".
The first 3 links below are tracks directly from the album, the last track, Twist and Shout is a LIVE video performance in Sweden in 1963 !
Please Please Me Chains Baby It's You Twist and Shout
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