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When "Help!" came out in '65, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock-'n'-roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie … It was my fat Elvis period.

John Lennon [18]

The Beatles at a press conference during their August 1965 US tour Beatles press conference 1965.jpg
The Beatles at a press conference during their August 1965 US tour

Help! was the band's final British album (aside from the late 1966 compilation A Collection of Beatles Oldies ) to feature any cover songs until 1970's Let It Be (which included a performance of the traditional folk song "Maggie Mae"). In 1966, Capitol would release "Act Naturally", already on the British Help! album, on Yesterday and Today . "Bad Boy" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (both written by Larry Williams and recorded on 10 May 1965, Williams' birthday) were both aimed at the American market and originally not intended to appear on Help!, but "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" ultimately did. [19] Both songs appeared on Beatles VI , released in the US in June 1965. "Bad Boy" was not released in the UK until A Collection of Beatles Oldies, and was that album's only cover song. [20]

Outtakes

A few songs that were recorded and intended for the album and film were not used. Lennon and McCartney wrote "If You've Got Trouble" for Ringo Starr to sing, but the Beatles were not satisfied with the song and it was abandoned, and Starr sang "Act Naturally" instead. [21] "That Means a Lot" was written for the film, but again, the Beatles were displeased with their recordings of the song and it was given to P. J. Proby who released it as a single. [22] Lennon said "Yes It Is" was "me trying a rewrite of 'This Boy', but it didn't work"; [23] it was released as the B-side of "Ticket to Ride" and was also issued on Beatles VI. "You Like Me Too Much" and "Tell Me What You See" were turned down for use in the film by its director, Richard Lester, although they did appear on the album (and also on Beatles VI).[ citation needed ]

In June 1965, at the end of the Help! sessions, the song "Wait" was recorded for the album, but was left unfinished. The Beatles resurrected the track and completed it for inclusion on Rubber Soul in November, when a final song was needed to complete that album.

Album cover

Help!
Help! (The Beatles album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by
the Beatles
Released6 August 1965 (1965-08-06)
Recorded15 February – 17 June 1965
Studio EMI, London
Genre
Length33:44
Label Parlophone
Producer George Martin
The Beatles chronology
Beatles for Sale
(1964)		Help!
(1965)		 Rubber Soul
(1965)
The Beatles North American chronology
Beatles VI
(1965)		Help!
(1965)		 Rubber Soul
(1965)
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H		 Semaphore Echo.svg
E		 Semaphore Lima.svg
L		 Semaphore Papa.svg
P
Semaphore November.svg
N		 Semaphore Uniform.svg
U		 Semaphore Juliet.svg
J		 Semaphore Victor.svg
V
Semaphore November.svg
N		 Semaphore Victor.svg
V		 Semaphore Uniform.svg
U		 Semaphore Juliet.svg
J

The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters 'HELP'. But when we came to do the shot, the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms." [24]

On the UK Parlophone release, the letters formed by the Beatles appear to be "NUJV", whilst the slightly re-arranged US release on Capitol Records appeared to indicate the letters "NVUJ", with McCartney's left hand pointing to the Capitol logo. [25] The Capitol LP was issued in a "deluxe" gatefold sleeve with several photos from the film and was priced $1 more than standard Capitol releases at the time.[ citation needed ]

Compact disc release

There have been four CD releases of Help! The first was on 30 April 1987, using the 14-song UK track line-up. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the original 14-track UK version replaced the original US version with its release on LP and cassette as well on 21 July 1987. As with the CD release of the 1965 Rubber Soul album, the Help! CD featured a contemporary stereo digital remix of the album prepared by Martin in 1986. Martin had expressed concern to EMI over the original 1965 stereo mix, claiming it sounded "very woolly, and not at all what I thought should be a good issue". Martin went back to the original four-track tapes and remixed them for stereo. [26] One of the most notable changes is the echo added to "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", something that was not evident on the original mix of the LP.

When the album was originally released on CD in Canada, pressings were imported from other countries, and used the 1987 remix. However, when the Disque Améric and Cinram plants in Canada started pressing the album, the original 1965 stereo mix was used by mistake. This was the only source for the 1965 stereo mix in its entirety until the release of the mono box set in 2009. [27]

The 2009 remastered stereo CD was released on 9 September. It was "created from the original stereo digital master tapes from Martin's CD mixes made in 1986". [28] The original 1965 stereo mix was included as a bonus on the mono CD contained in The Beatles in Mono boxed set.

The 1965 stereo mix was reissued again on the Help! CD contained in the Beatles collection The Japan Box released in 2014.

Critical reception

Contemporary reviews

Help! was another worldwide critical success for the Beatles. [29] Derek Johnson of the NME said that the LP "maintains the Beatles' usual high standards" and was a "gay, infectious romp which doesn't let up in pace or sparkle from start to finish – with the exception of one slow track". [30] [31] Despite the band's introduction of new instrumentation into their sound, particularly a string quartet on "Yesterday", the reviewer also wrote of the album: "It's typical Beatles material, and offers very few surprises. But then, who wants surprises from the Beatles?" While typical of the light and snappy pop music reviews at the time, according to music journalist Michael Halpin, these comments angered McCartney, who, like his bandmates, believed that artists should constantly develop through their work. [29]

In the United States, where the mainstream press had long focused on the Beatlemania phenomenon and had derided the group's music, as well as rock 'n' roll generally, the summer of 1965 coincided with the first examples of artistic recognition for the Beatles from the country's cultural mainstream. [32] Among these endorsements, Richard Freed of The New York Times likened the band's songs to works from the European art music tradition. Adding to what he described as the Beatles' impact on "serious music", Freed cited musicologists and composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Abram Chasins as admirers of the group's work. [33] Along with several nominations for "Yesterday", [34] Help! was nominated in the category of Album of the Year at the 1966 Grammys Awards. The nomination marked the first time that a rock band had been recognised in this category. [35]

Retrospective assessments

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [36]
The A.V. Club A [37]
Chicago Sun-Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [38]
Consequence of Sound B [39]
The Daily Telegraph Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [40]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [41]
MusicHound 3.5/5 [42]
Paste 100/100 [43]
Pitchfork 9.2/10 [44]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [45]

In his review of the Beatles' 1987 CD releases, for Rolling Stone magazine, Steve Pond remarked on the "unstoppable momentum" evident in the band's pre-Rubber Soul albums and recommended Help! "for the relatively quiet and understated way in which they consolidated their strengths". [46] Writing in 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide , Rob Sheffield says that the US version of Help! was "utterly ruined" through the replacement of the Beatles songs with the soundtrack music, and that, as a result, the album remained relatively overlooked. He describes the full album as "a big step forward" and "the first chapter in the astounding creative takeoff the Beatles were just beginning". [47]

Mark Kemp of Paste considers it to be the equal of A Hard Day's Night and cites "Help!", "Ticket to Ride" and "Act Naturally" as highlights, along with Harrison's return as a songwriter. Kemp identifies "Yesterday" as "the album's masterpiece" and a song that "set the stage for one of the most groundbreaking and innovative periods in The Beatles' career, not to mention pop music in general". [43] Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph says that the album evokes "a band in transition, shifting slightly uncomfortably from the pop thrills of Beatlemania to something more mature", with Lennon's writing increasingly autobiographical and the group's sound growing more sophisticated. McCormick concludes: "Help! may not be their greatest album, but it contains some of their greatest early songs." [40]

In 2000, Help! was voted 119th in the third edition of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums . [48] In 2006, it was recognised as one of the "Most Significant Rock Albums" in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History. Two years before then, Tor Milde, music critic for the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang , ranked it at number 20 on his list of "The 100 Best Pop and Rock Albums of All Time".[ citation needed ] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked Help! number 332 on their list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", raising the ranking to number 331 in the 2012 update and then number 266 in the 2020 list. [49] [50] [51]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Help!"Lennon2:18
2."The Night Before"McCartney2:34
3."You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"Lennon2:09
4."I Need You" (George Harrison)Harrison2:28
5."Another Girl"McCartney2:05
6."You're Going to Lose That Girl"Lennon2:18
7."Ticket to Ride"Lennon3:09
Total length:17:01
Side two
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Act Naturally" (Morrison–Russell)Starr2:30
2."It's Only Love"Lennon1:56
3."You Like Me Too Much" (Harrison)Harrison2:36
4."Tell Me What You See"McCartney2:37
5."I've Just Seen a Face"McCartney2:05
6."Yesterday"McCartney2:05
7."Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams)Lennon2:54
Total length:16:43

North American Capitol release

Help!
HelpUSalbumcover.jpg
Soundtrack album by
the Beatles and Ken Thorne
Released13 August 1965 [52]
Recorded15 February – 17 June 1965
Studio EMI, London
Genre
Length29:34
Label Capitol
Producer George Martin, Dave Dexter, Jr. [53]
The Beatles North American chronology
Beatles VI
(1965)		Help!
(1965)		 Rubber Soul
(1965)
Singles from Help!
  1. "Ticket to Ride"
    Released: 19 April 1965
  2. "Help!"
    Released: 19 July 1965 [52]

The North American version, the band's eighth Capitol Records album and tenth overall, includes the songs in the film plus selections from the film's orchestral score composed and conducted by Ken Thorne, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a rock/pop album, and its very first use on a Beatles record. "Ticket to Ride" is the only song on the American release in Duophonic stereo (also known as "fake stereo") reprocessed from the mono mix. Likewise, the mono version of the album uses a folded-down stereo mix of "Help!" instead of the true mono version used on the single, which features a different vocal track. Help! is available on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 box set. This CD contains both the stereo and mono fold-down versions as heard on the American LP release. A second CD release of this album, which contains the seven songs in true mono mixes, was issued in 2014 individually and as part of the Beatles' The U.S. Albums box set.

All of the non-film tracks from side two of the Parlophone album were spread out through three American albums. Three were already issued on the previously released Beatles VI: "You Like Me Too Much", "Tell Me What You See" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". "I've Just Seen A Face" and "It's Only Love" were placed on the Capitol Rubber Soul, with its follow-up album Yesterday and Today receiving the remaining two tracks: "Yesterday" and "Act Naturally".

The American version of Help! reached the number one spot on the Billboard Top LPs chart for nine weeks starting on 11 September 1965.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Help!" (preceded by an uncredited instrumental intro based on the "James Bond Theme")Lennon2:39
2."The Night Before"McCartney2:36
3."From Me to You Fantasy" (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne)instrumental2:08
4."You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"Lennon2:12
5."I Need You" (Harrison)Harrison2:31
6."In the Tyrol" (Ken Thorne)instrumental2:26
Total length:14:32
Side two
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Another Girl"McCartney2:08
2."Another Hard Day's Night" (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne)instrumental2:31
3."Ticket to Ride"Lennon3:07
4."The Bitter End/You Can't Do That" (Ken Thorne/Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne)instrumental2:26
5."You're Gonna Lose That Girl"Lennon2:19
6."The Chase" (Ken Thorne)instrumental2:31
Total length:15:02

Charts

Certifications and sales

In the US, the album sold 1,314,457 copies by 31 December 1965 and 1,594,032 copies by the end of the decade. [72]

Original release
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF) [73] Platinum60,000^
Australia (ARIA) [74] Gold35,000^
Brazil—320,000 [75]
Germany—100,000 [76]
Italy (FIMI) [77]
sales since 2009 		Gold25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [78]
sales since 1994 		Platinum300,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

North American release
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [79] 2× Platinum200,000^
United States (RIAA) [80] 3× Platinum3,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

According to Mark Lewisohn [81] [82] and Alan W. Pollack. [83]

The Beatles

Additional musicians

Surround versions

The songs included in the soundtrack of the film Help! (tracks 1–7) were mixed into 5.1 surround sound for the film's 2007 DVD release.

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog
United Kingdom6 August 1965 Parlophone mono LP PMC 1255
stereo LPPCS 3071
United States13 August 1965 Capitol mono LPMAS 2386
stereo LPSMAS 2386
Worldwide reissue15 April 1987 Apple, Parlophone, EMI Compact DiscCDP 7 46439 2
United States21 July 1987Capitolstereo LPCLJ 46439
Japan11 March 1998 Toshiba-EMI CDTOCP 51115
Japan21 January 2004Toshiba-EMI Remastered LPTOJP 60135
Worldwide reissue11 April 2006Apple/Capitol/EMICD reissue of US LPCDP 0946 3 57500 2 7
Worldwide reissue9 September 2009Apple/Capitol/EMICD stereo remasterCDP 0946 3 82415 2 2

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