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Help! is a 1965 album by the George Martin Orchestra, the second in a series of albums by Martin featuring instrumental arrangements of Beatles songs. United Artists released the LP in the United States on 19 September 1965, and EMI's Columbia Graphophone label released it in the United Kingdom on 19 November.
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Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician. He was commonly referred to as the " fifth Beatle " because of his extensive involvement in each of the Beatles ' original albums. [1]
Mar 9, 2016 · The Beatles recorded all of their albums with George Martin, although his work on Let It Be was initially uncredited. By Mark Savage. Music reporter. In May 1962, The Beatles were in the middle...
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In 1964, the Beatles appeared in their first feature film, A Hard Day's Night. Despite initial skepticism, reviews were near universal in their acclaim, elevating the Beatles' prestige as artists. With the aim of making one film a year, work began on a second Beatles picture for 1965 release. It would once again be directed by Richard Lester and pr...
The album includes Paul McCartney's "Yesterday", arranged for guitar and string quartet and recorded without the other group members. John Lennon's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" indicates the influence of Bob Dylanand includes flutes. "Ticket to Ride", released as a single in April 1965, was felt by Lennon to be "heavy" in its sound compared ...
The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters 'HELP'. But when we came to do the shot, the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up wi...
There have been four CD releases of Help! The first was on 30 April 1987, using the 14-song UK track line-up. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the original 14-track UK version replaced the original US version with its release on LP and cassette as well on 21 July 1987. As with the CD release of the 1965 Rubber Soul alb...
Contemporary reviews
Help! was another worldwide critical success for the Beatles. Derek Johnson of the NME said that the LP "maintains the Beatles' usual high standards" and was a "gay, infectious romp which doesn't let up in pace or sparkle from start to finish – with the exception of one slow track".Despite the band's introduction of new instrumentation into their sound, particularly a string quartet on "Yesterday", the reviewer also wrote of the album: "It's typical Beatles material, and offers very few surpr...
Retrospective assessments
In his review of the Beatles' 1987 CD releases, for Rolling Stone magazine, Steve Pond remarked on the "unstoppable momentum" evident in the band's pre-Rubber Soul albums and recommended Help! "for the relatively quiet and understated way in which they consolidated their strengths". Writing in 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Rob Sheffield says that the US version of Help!was "utterly ruined" through the replacement of the Beatles songs with the soundtrack music, and that, as a...
The North American version, the band's eighth Capitol Records album and tenth overall, includes the songs in the film plus selections from the film's orchestral score composed and conducted by Ken Thorne, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a rock/pop album, and its very first use on a Beatles record. "Ticket to Ride" is the...
In the US, the album sold 1,314,457 copies by 31 December 1965 and 1,594,032 copies by the end of the decade. Original release North American release
According to Mark Lewisohnand Alan W. Pollack. The Beatles 1. John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm and acoustic guitars; electric piano, organ on "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"; tambourine on "Tell Me What You See"; snare drumon "I Need You" 2. Paul McCartney– lead, harmony and background vocals; bass, acoustic and lead guitars; piano, ele...
The songs included in the soundtrack of the film Help! (tracks 1–7) were mixed into 5.1 surround soundfor the film's 2007 DVD release.
Help! is a 1965 album by the George Martin Orchestra, the second in a series of albums by Martin featuring instrumental arrangements of Beatles songs. United Artists released the LP in the United States on 19 September 1965, and EMI's Columbia Graphophone label released it in the United Kingdom...
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