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An essential album (unless you already have all the singles !)

This album concerns itself with material written by John and/or Paul quite early in their career.

As a rule the Beatles did NOT write songs specifically for other artists to perform, almost all songs were written as potential tracks for The Beatles. But if requests came in for material, they would simply pick something out from the "spare" songs. Of course, most requests would be turned down, but it was almost impossible to refuse Brian Epstein himself. Brian, appreciating the hit writing capabilities of his star performers, would often ask for something to be tailored to launch many of his new signings. In this way he arranged for Lennon-McCartney to supply songs for the initial recordings of: Billy J. Kramer, Tommy Quickly, The Fourmost, and Cilla Black. Of course, this album is by no means complete (Mary Hopkin, Badfinger, to name two), but serves as a terrific example of the early writing talents of Lennon and McCartney. The sleeve concept was by Colin Miles, with the artwork and design by Adam Yeldham.