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Main article: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Front cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "the most famous cover of any music album, and one of the most imitated images in the world" [194] A ll these things happened within eight months after the Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. By the end of 1964, the band placed 28 records in Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart, 11 of them in the Top 10. They also saw 10 albums released worldwide, five of them on Capitol. Radel, Cliff (20 June 1976). "Capitol Album May Fuel Beatles Revival". The Cincinnati Enquirer . Retrieved 19 November 2023.White, Matthew (6 November 2023). "The Beatles' last single "Now and Then" breaks radio record as AI revives Lennon recording". Guinness world records . Retrieved 9 November 2023. Released in March 1963, Please Please Me was the first of eleven consecutive Beatles albums released in the United Kingdom to reach number one. [61] The band's third single, " From Me to You", came out in April and began an almost unbroken string of seventeen British number-one singles, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years. [62] Issued in August, their fourth single, " She Loves You", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks. [63] It became their first single to sell a million copies, and remained the biggest-selling record in the UK until 1978. [64] [nb 2] Doggett, Peter (2011). You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup. New York: It Books. ISBN 978-0-06-177418-8. Costello, Elvis (2004). "100 Greatest Artists: The Beatles". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 21 June 2013 . Retrieved 25 June 2013. Gould, Jonathan (2007). Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-35338-2.

Mansfield, Ken (2007). The White Book. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-1-59555-101-6. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023 . Retrieved 31 March 2014. Beatles Refused to Play for Segregated Audiences, Contract Reveal". Huffington Post. 16 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017 . Retrieved 17 February 2018.Compared with Paul's songs, all of which seemed to keep in some sort of touch with reality, John's had a psychedelic, almost mystical quality... John's imagery is one of the best things about his work– 'tangerine trees', 'marmalade skies', 'cellophane flowers' ...I always saw him as an aural Salvador Dalí, rather than some drug-ridden record artist. On the other hand, I would be stupid to pretend that drugs didn't figure quite heavily in the Beatles' lives at that time... they knew that I, in my schoolmasterly role, didn't approve... Not only was I not into it myself, I couldn't see the need for it; and there's no doubt that, if I too had been on dope, Pepper would never have been the album it was. Perhaps it was the combination of dope and no dope that worked, who knows? [422] Winn, John C. (2009). That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966–1970. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-45239-9 . Retrieved 31 March 2014. In August, journalist Al Aronowitz arranged for the Beatles to meet Bob Dylan. [117] Visiting the band in their New York hotel suite, Dylan introduced them to cannabis. [118] Gould points out the musical and cultural significance of this meeting, before which the musicians' respective fanbases were "perceived as inhabiting two separate subcultural worlds": Dylan's audience of "college kids with artistic or intellectual leanings, a dawning political and social idealism, and a mildly bohemian style" contrasted with their fans, "veritable ' teenyboppers' – kids in high school or grade school whose lives were totally wrapped up in the commercialised popular culture of television, radio, pop records, fan magazines, and teen fashion. To many of Dylan's followers in the folk music scene, the Beatles were seen as idolaters, not idealists." [119]