Footnotes

Footnotes

1. Jump up^ Credited to "Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers", the single "My Bonnie", recorded in June 1961 and released four months later, reached number 32 on the Musikmarkt chart.^[28]
2. Jump up^ Throughout early and mid-1962, Epstein sought to free the Beatles from their contractual obligations to Bert Kaempfert Productions. He eventually negotiated a one-month-early release from their contract in exchange for one last recording session in Hamburg.^[34]
3. Jump up^ Martin originally considered recording the Beatles' debut LP live at the Cavern Club, but after deciding that the building's acoustics were inadequate, he elected to simulate a "live" album with minimal production in "a single marathon session at Abbey Road".^[48]
4. Jump up^ The band toured the UK three times in the first half of the year: a four-week tour that began in February, the Beatles's first nationwide, preceded three-week tours in March and May–June.^[57]
5. Jump up^ Although not billed as tour leaders, the Beatles overshadowed American actsTommy Roe and Chris Montez during the February engagements and assumed top billing "by audience demand", Lewisohn writes, something no British act had previously accomplished while touring with artists from the US.^[59] A similar situation arose during their May–June tour with Roy Orbison.^[60]
6. Jump up^ In late November, EMI released With the Beatles to record advance orders of 270,000 copies, and the LP topped a half-million albums sold in one week.^[67]
7. Jump up^ In a reversal of then standard practice, EMI released the album ahead of the impending single "I Want to Hold Your Hand", with the song excluded to maximise the single's sales.^[71]
8. Jump up^ Exercising complete control over format, Capitol began to issue the material in December 1963,^[75] compiling distinct US albums from the band's recordings and issuing songs of their choosing as singles.^[77]
9. Jump up^ Harrison's ringing 12-string inspired Roger McGuinn, who obtained his own Rickenbacker and used it to craft the trademark sound of the Byrds.^[91]
10. Jump up^ During the same week in April 1964, a third American Beatles LP joined the two already in circulation; two of the three reached the first spot on theBillboard albums chart, the third peaked at number two.^[93]
11. Jump up^ Starr was briefly hospitalised after a tonsillectomy, and Jimmie Nicol sat in on drums for the first five dates.^[97]
12. Jump up^ In September, the Beatles refused to play a show in Florida until the local promoter assured them that the audience would not be racially segregated.^[102]
13. Jump up^ September saw the launch of an American Saturday-morning cartoon series,The Beatles, that echoed A Hard Day's Night's slapstick antics over its two-year original run.^[122]
14. Jump up^ The band unsuccessfully attempted to block the 1977 release of Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. The independently issued album compiled recordings made during the group's Hamburg residency, taped on a basic recording machine using only one microphone.^[254]
15. Jump up^ From the 1920s, the United States had dominated popular entertainment culture throughout much of the world, via Hollywood movies, jazz, the music of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley and, later, the rock and roll that first emerged in Memphis, Tennessee.^[273]