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With the Beatles is The Beatles' second British album, recorded four months after the band's first album and released on 22 November 1963, the day of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
The album features eight original compositions (including the first by George Harrison) and six covers, mostly of Motown and R&B hits. Most of the songs from the album were released in the United States as Meet the Beatles! on 20 January 1964.
The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965 — making it the second album to sell a million copies in the UK (the first being the South Pacific soundtrack). It stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that the Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks. It even reached number eleven in the "singles charts" (because at the time UK charts counted all records sold, regardless of format).
In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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I like this album because it's the sound of The Beatles while they were still carefree, before mega-stardom and tensions within the group started to show.