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On their second album, The Beatles wore their influences on the record sleeve. Released in the U.K. less than three months before the Fab Four’s U.S. invasion, With the Beatles featured eight original compositions, one Chuck Berry cover, one show tune and a whole lot of Motown.
The Chuck Berry cover, “Roll Over Beethoven,” was a natural, as the St. Louis guitar slinger was a prime influence on John Lennon’s rock ‘n’ roll soul right from his first band The Quarrymen. “If you tried to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry,” Lennon once said. The McCartney-sung “Till There Was You” — which The Beatles performed on their debut Ed Sullivan Show performance on February 9, 1964 — was penned by Iowan tunesmith Meredith Wilson for the smash stage-and-screen productionThe Music Man. It foreshadowed later McCartney compositions like “When I’m Sixty-Four” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.”
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