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Help!
Studio album by The Beatles
Released	6 August 1965
Recorded	Abbey Road Studios 15 February 1965 – 19 February 1965, 13 April 1965, 10 May 1965, 14 June 1965 – 17 June 1965
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	34:20
Label	Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Producer	George Martin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Q link
The Beatles UK chronology
Beatles for Sale (1964) Help! (1965) Rubber Soul (1965)

Help! is the fifth album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack album from their film of the same name, Help!

Produced by George Martin for EMI Records, the album (in its original British form) contains seven songs that appeared in the movie of the same name, and seven that did not, including the most covered song in history, the Paul McCartney ballad "Yesterday".

The critically-acclaimed album also features two transatlantic number one singles: "Ticket to Ride" and the title song. Tracks like Lennon's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" indicate the influence of Bob Dylan and folk music. In later years, Lennon said that the title track of the album was a sincere cry for help, as the pressures of the Beatles' fame and his own unhappiness (what he later called his "fat Elvis" period) began to build, and that he regretted turning it from a downbeat song in the style of Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely" to an upbeat pop song as a result of commercial pressures.

McCartney contributed "Yesterday", "Another Girl", "The Night Before", and "I've Just Seen a Face" (which appeared with "It's Only Love" on the U.S. version of Rubber Soul).

George Harrison contributed "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much". These were Harrison's first song compositions to be included on a Beatles album since "Don't Bother Me", from 1963's With the Beatles.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 332 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.^[1]

Contents 1 Album cover 2 CD release 3 Track listing 3.1 Side one 3.2 Side two 4 Rejected songs 5 American release 5.1 Track listing 5.1.1 Side one 5.1.2 Side two 6 Release history 7 Notes 8 External links

The album cover features the group with their arms positioned to spell out a word in semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."^[2]

On the British Parlophone release, the letters formed by the Beatles appear to be 'NUJV', whilst the slightly re-arranged U.S. release on Capitol Records appeared to feature the letters 'NVUJ'.

The following semaphore characters show the correct spelling of 'HELP':

H

E

L

P

The album was released on CD in 1987, using the 14-song UK track lineup. As with the CD release of the 1965 Rubber Soul album, the Help! CD featured a contemporary stereo digital remix of the album prepared by George Martin. This remix is a bit controversial among Beatle fans — many purists prefer the 1965 mix. Strangely, a few Canadian-origin CD editions of Rubber Soul and Help! accidentally use the original mix of the album, presumably because of a mix-up as to which tapes were to be sent to the pressing plant. As of 2006, these "mistakes" sell for a fair amount in the second-hand market, when properly identified.

All songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.

All songs on side one appear in the movie.

1. "Help!" – 2:18
2. "The Night Before" – 2:33
3. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 2:08
4. "I Need You" (George Harrison) – 2:28
5. "Another Girl" – 2:05
6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl" – 2:17
7. "Ticket to Ride" – 3:10

1. "Act Naturally" (Johnny Russell, Vonnie Morrison) – 2:29
2. "It's Only Love" – 1:54
3. "You Like Me Too Much" (Harrison) – 2:35
4. "Tell Me What You See" – 2:36
5. "I've Just Seen a Face" – 2:04
6. "Yesterday" – 2:03
7. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams) – 2:53

A few songs that were intended for the film were not used because of the Beatles' suggestions. Lennon and McCartney wrote "If You've Got Trouble" for Ringo Starr to sing, but he hated it. McCartney's "That Means a Lot" was not used because he thought it was not recorded perfectly. Lennon had the same opinion about his "Yes It Is", but the song ended up as the B-side of "Ticket to Ride". "You Like Me Too Much" and "Tell Me What You See" were rejected for use in the film by Richard Lester, though they did appear on the album.

Much later, in June 1965, the song "Wait" was recorded for the album. However, all four Beatles thought the song was rather dull. "Wait" ended up on the album Rubber Soul when there were not enough songs to be put on the album for a Christmas release.

Help!
Studio album by The Beatles
Released	13 August 1965
Recorded	Abbey Road - February 15-February 20, 23, March 15, April 2, 13, 18, June 18, 1965
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	28:43
Label	Capitol
Producer	George Martin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Beatles U.S. chronology
Beatles VI (1965) Help! (1965) Rubber Soul (1965)

The U.S. version of the album includes the songs in the film plus selections from the orchestral score composed by Ken Thorne and performed by the George Martin Orchestra, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a pop album. This album is available on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 box set. There was a false rumour that semaphore cover on the American version spells "H-P-E-L" and the UK version spelled it correctly. Both of these are untrue. Neither version spells anything in semaphore.

All tracks written by Lennon-McCartney, except where noted.

1. "Help!" (preceded by Ken Thorne's James Bond Theme instrumental arrangement)
2. "The Night Before"
3. "From Me to You Fantasy" (instrumental) (Lennon, McCartney; arrKen Thorne)
4. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
5. "I Need You" (Harrison)
6. "In The Tyrol" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne)

1. "Another Girl"
2. "Another Hard Day's Night" (instrumental)(Lennon/ McCartney; arranged by Ken Thorne)
3. "Ticket to Ride"
4. Medley: "The Bitter End" (Ken Thorne)/"You Can't Do That" (instrumental)(Lennon/McCartney, arranged by Ken Thorne)
5. "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" (as titled by Capitol Records)
6. "The Chase" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne)

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom	6 August 1965	Parlophone	mono LP	PMC 1255
			stereo LP	PCS 3071
United States	13 August 1965	Capitol Records	mono LP	MAS 2386
			stereo LP	SMAS 2386
Worldwide reissue	15 April 1987	Apple, Parlophone, EMI	CD	CDP 7 46439 2
Japan	11 March 1998	Toshiba-EMI	CD	TOCP 51115
Japan	21 January 2004	Toshiba-EMI	Remastered LP	TOJP 60135
Worldwide reissue	11 April 2006	Apple/Capitol/EMI	CD reissue of U.S. LP	CDP 0946 3 57500 2 7

• Help! (the movie) on the IMDb
• The Beatles' comments on each song
• Recording data and notes on mono/stereo mixes and remixes
• A discussion on semaphore
• Yet more semaphore
• Discussion of Canadian CD copies of Help! and Rubber Soul

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John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison · Ringo Starr
Management	Allan Williams · Brian Epstein · Allen Klein · Lee Eastman · Neil Aspinall · Peter Brown · Mal Evans · Alistair Taylor · Apple Records
Production	George Martin · Geoff Emerick · Norman Smith · Ken Scott · Phil Spector · Jeff Lynne · Abbey Road Studios
Studio albums	Please Please Me (1963) · With The Beatles (1963) · A Hard Day's Night (1964) · Beatles for Sale (1964) · Help! (1965) · Rubber Soul (1965) · Revolver (1966) · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) · Magical Mystery Tour (1967) · The Beatles (The White Album) (1968) · Yellow Submarine (1969) · Abbey Road (1969) · Let It Be (1970)
Post-breakup albums	Live at the BBC (1994) · Anthology 1 (1995) · Anthology 2 (1996) · Anthology 3 (1996) · Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999) · Let It Be… Naked (2003)
Compilations	Hey Jude (1970) · 1962–1966 (1973) · 1967–1970 (1973) · Past Masters, Volume One (1988) · Past Masters, Volume Two (1988) · 1 (2000) · Love (2006)
Filmography	A Hard Day's Night (1964) · Help! (1965) · Magical Mystery Tour (U.K., 1967 / U.S., 1976) · Yellow Submarine (1968) · Let It Be (1970)
Videography	The Compleat Beatles (1984)  · The Beatles Anthology (2003) · The First U.S. Visit (2003)
Discography	Bootlegs · Discography · Outtakes
Related people	Pete Best · Stuart Sutcliffe  · Klaus Voormann  · Harry Nilsson  · Derek Taylor · Yoko Ono · Linda McCartney · Cynthia Lennon · Billy Preston · Tony Sheridan · Chas Newby · Andy White · Jimmy Nicol · Astrid Kirchherr
See also	Line-ups · Love (Cirque du Soleil) · Lennon/McCartney · Influence · Beatle boots · The Quarrymen · The Beatles' breakup · London · Beatlemania · Fifth Beatle · Paul is dead · The Beatles (TV series) · British Invasion · Apple Corps · Northern Songs · The Beatles Anthology · The Rutles