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      General 

        LPs/CDs: 77   EPs: 20

     Singles: 59

        Officially released songs: 301

 

    

      Chronological: 

        Performances at the Cavern Club in Liverpool: 292

        Trips to Hamburg: 5

        Drummers before Ringo: 5+

        Highest chart position of "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You:" 17

        Highest chart position of "Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why:" 1

        Recording hours of Please Please Me: 13

 

      Amount of money spent in the U.S. on an advertising blitz for the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single: $50,000

 

        Requests for seats for the February 9, 1964 Ed Sullivan Show, in which the Beatles appeared:600,000

       

 Seats in the Ed Sullivan Theatre: 700

        Payment for the Beatles first appearance on Ed Sullivan: $10,000

        Estimated amount of money lost by Brian Epstein and the Beatles over unauthorized Beatle merchandise: $100,000,000+

        Different pictures of the Beatles on A Hard Day's Night: 20

        Cost of the Hard Day's Night film: $500,000

        Cost of the Help! film: $1,500,000

        Broadcasts of the song "Yesterday" on U.S. TV and radio:  6,000,000+

        Cover versions of "Yesterday:" 2,500+

        Number of successful sexual advances on John Lennon by Brian Epstein: 1

        Debts of Ringo stand-in Jimmy Nichol soon after appearing with the Beatles in 1965: $5,809

        Assets: $71

        Beatle songs featuring foreign languages: 4

        Rejected scripts by the Beatles for a planned third film feature in 1966: 2+

 

        Beatles songs that feature references to individual political leaders: 3

        Live performances: 1400+

        Times Paul McCartney has died: 0

        Highest chart position of "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever:" 2

        Hours of recording time for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 700+

        Faces or objects on the Sgt. Pepper cover: 90

        People painted out of the cover: 2

        Number of dictators planned but later rejected for the cover: 1

        Seconds the final chord in "A Day in the Life" lasts: 42

        Time signature of "All You Need is Love:" 7/4

        Viewers of the TV special Our World, in which the Beatles played "All You Need is Love:" 400,000,000+

        Cost of the Magical Mystery Tour film: $107,143

        Times the phrase "don't be long" is repeated in the song "Blue Jay Way:" 29

        Times the"Na na na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Hey Jude" is repeated: 19

        Beatles songs with nonsense choruses: 2

        "Revolution" songs: 3

        Songs on the White Album that feature Paul's drumming: 2

 

        Years before that "Don't Pass Me By" had been written before being recorded: 5

        Letters in "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey:" 10

        Beatles songs that became the theme songs for Charles Manson and his family: 5

        Songs recorded during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions: 234+

        Versions of the unreleased Get Back album: 2

        Albums that Phil Spector produced: 1

        Songs in the Abbey Road medley: 9

        Recorded drum solos by Ringo: 2 (the other being an unreleased song called "Anytime" a.k.a. "Drum Track." This 22:10 number recorded during the Magical Mystery Tour sessions feature just Ringo playing drums, bongos, maracas, etc.)

 

Miscellaneous:

        Beatle wives: 8

        Amount of money offered in 1976 by Bill Sargent to the Beatles for one reunion concert: $50,000,000

John Lennon hated the band The Hollies

George Harrison didn't like the Hollies either, and had a specific distaste for Graham Nash for some reason.

Listen to Hey Jude, at exactly 2:58 seconds into it, you can hear John say in the background "I fucked it up".

George Harrison has a 14 1/2 inch neck.

Tiny Tim and Davy Jones were at the recording session for the song "Revolution".

Roy Kinnear, who plays Algernon in the movie "Help!", is also in the movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

In the 60s, Paul had 3 cats named Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

John and George always went to the dentist together and they each bought themselves a nice present before they go, cos they were deathly scared of the dentist!

In the 60s, The Beatles really dug cuff links.

In the movie A Hard Day's Night, some cut scenes included a 'solo scene' with Paul, and a scene where John is mistaken for an escaped convict and handcuffed.

Hayley Mills and George Harrison dated a couple times in the early 60s.

Paul dislikes the song "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire.

In 1965, John's dad Alfred made a record called "That's My Life"

George is deathly afraid of flying in an airplane.

John Lennon's favorite food was cornflakes

Ringo has a 14 1/2 inch neck

John Lennon had a 15 1/2 inch neck.

Spencer Davis appears in "Magical Mystery Tour"

Paul McCartney has a 15 1/2 inch neck.

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