The first all-original Beatles album, and the moment the songwriting machine revealed its ceiling didn't exist: the title track's opening chord remains pop's most famous single sound, and "Things We Said Today" hides minor-key sophistication inside the screaming-girls era. Beatlemania's peak as product and as craft, simultaneously.
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