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You've Pleased-Pleased Us Say The Beatles

Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 February 1963

THINGS ARE beginning to move for the Beatles, the r-and-b styled British group which crashed back into the NME Chart this week at No. 17. The disc – 'Please Please Me' – follows closely on the heels of their first hit 'Love Me Do', written by group members John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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