I picked up by Roy Carr and Tony Tyler. It opened up a whole new world for me. I’d grown up listening to Beatles records, but until then I hadn’t really grasped how different their albums were in the U.K. Different covers. Different running orders. The albums were longer, too. by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, delved even deeper into the band’s releases, and I used it as my guide when I got my first stereo with a cassette deck, carefully recording The Beatles’ catalog on tape in the order that the songs were released in Britain. And that’s when I was The Beatles’ greatest album. At the time, the conventional wisdom was that was the band’s peak. And indeed, it’s a classic album — as all The Beatles’ albums are, really (I have a friend who cites as their best album). But for me, is their masterwork, an imaginative creation that evinces a newfound maturity and is as bracing as a crisp fall day.
