If anything concerns you, feel free to request additional details within’ comments section about data source and methods used to grant accuracy.Īs usual, I’ll be using the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept in order to relevantly gauge the band results. Some of the information published in this post may surprise you and can also contradict official data, data which happens to be wrong.
I would like to particularly thanks the massive input from both Hernán Lopez and Anthony Blanchard that helped building what I can proudly announce as the most comprehensive, accurate and enlighting article ever published about the Beatles charts and sales. Myself I have been going back and forth with their sales figures for 12 years until reaching at last a high point of satisfaction in an accuracy objective.
Indeed, all the numerical claims are purely fake. That’s what you read, not necessarily what is true. Pepper LP is past 5 million copies in the UK, they broke every chart record in 1964 and got more million sellers than every other act. You surely read it all – they sold more than anyone, their popularity is unparalleled, they topped 1 billion sales, shifted over 600 million albums, Sgt. More than half a century later, identifying accurate information about their sales and their achievements is still a nightmare. The music industry hasn’t been the same after they fully redesigned the map when debuting way back in 1963. I won’t be creating a fake suspense – they are the biggest selling music act of all-time. He conveys pleasure in life, and, if he’s flitted from one panacea to others, for life’s ills, he’s done it in good faith.Do you feel this very special moment when starting to read such an article? That’s what happens when the daily subject is the Beatles. The music is relaxed, well resolved, and, as ever with George, magnanimous. But he is a serious musician and he has worked well, on this album, with Dylan, and with various members of the West Coast musical mafia – Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, Bobby Keys. George will never have more than a silver talent. All Things Must Pass has been made with skill, love, and care.
Like Dave Crosby, George will remain subject to an occasional wince-making naivete. And he’s the only Beatle left who wants to make good music which magnifies and communicates his own ideas. George has always been the sanguine one, the preacher, the man of fire. I wish John Lennon good luck.Īfter John, George singing “Beware of sadness/It can hit you it can hurt you” (on All Things Must Pass, his treble album, Apple STCH 639) seems pretty shallow. And so, dear friends, you just have to carry on. He’s made a tract, carrying his bad news on the back of his reputation, trying to erase his old public image (“I don’t believe in Beatles” and, in another number, “I seen religion from Jesus to Paul “). And so is God (“God is a concept/By which we measure/Our pain/I’ll say it again”). “Working class hero” is a considerable track John getting off his bed to give his old mates a warning. It’s not about freedom and love, but madness and pain. This is the album of a man of black bile. He screams and cries, desolation, bitterness, anguish. But at the same time, Lennon’s album makes a deep impression, if more on him than us. Like Paul’s album, most of the numbers are of serious interest only to people who want to hear the Beatles’ individual personal archives. I can’t count much on his new album, John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (Apple SW 3372) as rock music. John isn’t preoccupied with himself: he’s obsessed with himself. He seems to believe that anything that comes into his head is worth having. The music is boastfully casual, scraps of his home studio. Paul reveals himself in it as a man preoccupied with himself, and his own situation. Paul’s album, McCartney (Apple PCS 7102), which has been out some time, is the work of a man of air. Maybe all Ringo lacks now is Colonel Parker. At moments Ringo sounds like Elvis: same line of country, similar handling. People who work with men like Pete Drake and Charlie McCoy don’t go wrong. Not because Ringo is a good singer, but because, this time, he’s let himself be used well.
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Beaucoups of Blues (Apple PAS 10002) sees Ringo in the hands of the best craftsman musicians in the business: the Nashville men, some of whom formed Area Code 615, and who have backed Dylan. Sentimental Journey (Apple PCS 7101), produced by George Martin, was a bread gig quickie standards arranged by faces like Les Reed, Quincy Jones, John Dankworth, and Maurice Gibb. Take Ringo: he’s not bothered with a need to express any views of his own. This notion works, for their solo albums.
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