50 Years ago today the Beatles released 'Please Please Me' and not long after the words George Martin said upon completion of the recording comes true!

“Congratulations, gentlemen. You’ve just made your first No. 1.”

According to Beatles lore, those were the words spoken by producer George Martin on Nov. 26, 1962 after finishing the recording ‘Please Please Me,’ which was released, inconspicuously enough, as Parlophone 45-R 4983 on Jan. 11, 1963.

Six weeks later, Martin would be proven right, when it hit #1 on two different British music charts thus kicking off the phenomenon that would soon become known as Beatlemania.

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