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This section features all numerical facts about the Beatles.
General:
LPs/CDs: 77
EPs: 20
Singles: 59
Officially released songs: 301
Chronological:
Performances at the Cavern Club in Liverpool: 292
Trips to Hamburg: 5
Drummers before Ringo: 5+
Highest chart position of "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love
You:" 17
Highest chart position of "Please Please Me"/"Ask
Me Why:" 1
Recording hours of Please Please Me: 13
Amount of money spent in the U.S. on an advertising blitz for the
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" single: $50,000
Requests for seats for the February 9, 1964 Ed Sullivan Show, in
which the Beatles appeared:
600,000
Seats in the Ed Sullivan Theatre: 700
Payment for the Beatles first appearance on Ed Sullivan: $10,000
Estimated amount of money lost by Brian Epstein and the Beatles
over unauthorized Beatle merchandise:
$100,000,000+
Different pictures of the Beatles on A Hard Day's Night: 20
Cost of the Hard Day's Night film: $500,000
Cost of the Help! film: $1,500,000
Broadcasts of the song "Yesterday" on U.S. TV and radio:
6,000,000+
Cover versions of "Yesterday:"
2,500+
Number of successful sexual advances on John Lennon by Brian
Epstein: 1
Debts of Ringo stand-in Jimmy Nichol soon after appearing with
the Beatles in 1965:
$5,809
Assets: $71
Beatle songs featuring foreign languages: 4
Rejected scripts by the Beatles for a planned third film feature
in 1966:
2+
Beatles songs that feature references to individual political
leaders: 3
Live performances: 1400+
Times Paul McCartney has died: 0
Highest chart position of "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry
Fields Forever:"
2
Hours of recording time for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band:
700+
Faces or objects on the Sgt. Pepper cover:
90
People painted out of the cover: 2
Number of dictators planned but later rejected for the cover: 1
Seconds the final chord in "A Day in the Life" lasts:
42
Time signature of "All You Need is Love:" 7/4
Viewers of the TV special Our World, in which the Beatles played
"All You Need is Love:"
400,000,000+
Cost of the Magical Mystery Tour film: $107,143
Times the phrase "don't be long" is repeated in the song
"Blue Jay Way:"
29
Times the"Na na na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Hey Jude"
is repeated:
19
Beatles songs with nonsense choruses: 2
"Revolution" songs: 3
Songs on the White Album that feature Paul's drumming:
2
Years before that "Don't Pass Me By" had been written
before being recorded: 5
Letters in "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and
My Monkey:" 10
Beatles songs that became the theme songs for Charles Manson and
his family: 5+
Songs recorded during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions: 234+
Versions of the unreleased Get Back album: 2
Albums that Phil Spector produced: 1
Songs in the Abbey Road medley: 9
Recorded drum solos by Ringo: 2 (the
other being an unreleased song
called "Anytime" a.k.a. "Drum Track." This 22:10 number
recorded during the Magical Mystery Tour sessions feature just
Ringo playing drums, bongos, maracas, etc.)
Miscellaneous:
Beatle wives: 7
Amount of money offered in 1976 by Bill Sargent to the Beatles for one reunion concert: $50,000,000