Video: 'With the Beatles (Full Album)' (14 songs)

(Friday, November 22, 1963) — With the Beatles, the second studio album by the English rock band The Beatles, was released today in the United Kingdom on Parlophone, eight months after the band’s debut album Please Please Me.

Produced by George Martin, the album features eight original compositions (seven by John Lennon–Paul McCartney and “Don’t Bother Me,” George Harrison’s first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of rock and roll and Motown R&B hits) with lead vocals by all four members, including drummer Ringo Starr.

The sessions also yielded the non-album single, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” backed by “This Boy.”

The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman and has since been mimicked by several music groups.

In the United States, the album’s tracks would be unevenly split over the group’s first two albums released on Capitol Records: Meet the Beatles! and The Beatles’ Second Album.

It was also released in Canada under the name Beatlemania! With the Beatles.

The album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” in 2003, and was included in Robert Dimery’s 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2010).