In 1963, The Beatles released their first studio album, Please Please Me, along with a single of the same name. The album hit number one in the charts, with the single peaking at what would be the equivalent of number two, marking the beginning of the cultural phenomenon of The Beatles. Considering the music that commonly appeared in the charts at the time, the song Please Please Me didn’t deviate from that, taking major influence from Roy Orbison, before the tempo of the number was sped up to be less dreary. Taking influence from one artist and adapting it into another was unorthodox at the time, and was especially done before the Beatles did it more commonly, but the composition was still didn’t differ too much from the norm, taking a similar tone to Cliff Richard’s ‘Summer Holiday’.
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This song was released at the height of the Black Rights Movement, and reflected quite clearly Martin Luther King Jr’s fight for equality, with the lyrics saying such things as “You were only waiting for this moment to arise/to be free.” It was released just after MLK was assassinated, and mirrors the attitude the general public had at this point for his movement, and that it should succeed. This is one of the final representations of the attitudes for the people, which is the attitude for change.
Change was the key staple of the 1960’s, wars were ceased, homosexuality was legalised, and black people earned their equality. The attitudes of the world were changed by the people for the people, with The Beatles being major proponents for that change, emphasising what the people were thinking and wanting, and being massive advocates for such things. They were so influential because they helped unlock the potential of the public, helping them become their own people and decide their own destinies, moving away from the cycle that their parents were
This song was released at the height of the Black Rights Movement, and reflected quite clearly Martin Luther King Jr’s fight for equality, with the lyrics saying such things as “You were only waiting for this moment to arise/to be free.” It was released just after MLK was assassinated, and mirrors the attitude the general public had at this point for his movement, and that it should succeed. This is one of the final representations of the attitudes for the people, which is the attitude for change.
Change was the key staple of the 1960’s, wars were ceased, homosexuality was legalised, and black people earned their equality. The attitudes of the world were changed by the people for the people, with The Beatles being major proponents for that change, emphasising what the people were thinking and wanting, and being massive advocates for such things. They were so influential because they helped unlock the potential of the public, helping them become their own people and decide their own destinies, moving away from the cycle that their parents were