Live at the Apollo
1963
King Records refused to pay for a live album with no new songs on it, so Brown funded the recording himself. It reached number two.
★ 8.1
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963
Dylan was twenty-one. The cover photograph was taken on a Greenwich Village street in the snow, and four songs were pulled at the last minute.
★ 7.9
Please Please Me
1963
Recorded in a single day. Lennon had a heavy cold and sang Twist and Shout last, in one take, because his voice was about to go.
★ 5.9
A Christmas Gift for You
1963
Spector put the Wall of Sound behind sleigh bells and Darlene Love. It came out the day Kennedy was shot and sank without trace.
★ 4.5
Night Beat
1963
Recorded across three consecutive nights in the small hours, with a sixteen-year-old Billy Preston on organ and the pop arrangements stripped away.
★ 3.9