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** As do ''Abbey Road'', ''Revolver'', and ''A Hard Day's Night''.
** Even when the band was at their most fractious, they made albums like ''Let It Be'' and ''[[The White Album (Music)|The White Album]]''.
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* The rooftop concert.
* The fact that they nailed the recording of their cover of "Long Tall Sally" in a ''single take'' (having performed it so many times before, they were pretty good at it by that point, to say the least).
* "Twist and Shout" was also recorded in a single take. What's more, a second take would have not been possible because John's voice was shot. And it was recorded as the last song of the session for their first album. Which (except the four songs from their previous singles) was recorded ''in a single day''. And this while they still were abiding to the normal studio time schedule. ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|While they had a cold]]''.
* Until The Beatles broke through in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in the winter of 1964, only three other songs by British performers had topped the ''Billboard'' pop charts since its inception in 1940. Those songs were the ballad "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn (nine weeks in 1952), the instrumental "Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk in 1962 and the synth-heavy instrumental "Telstar" by the Tornadoes in early 1963. British popular music had its occasional appeal in the United States through the early 1960s, but the Beatles made British pop music the most dominant style, and began a run of dominance that has yet to be equaled. In 1964 alone, nine songs by British artists reached No. 1 (out of that year's 24 songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100), and by the end of the 1960s, 39 songs from the UK had gone No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with nearly half (18) by the Fab Four (with [[The Rolling Stones]] the next closest at five).
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