In We’re No. 1, Steven Hyden examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts
to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and
how that concept has changed over the years. In this installment, he
covers The Beatles’ Yesterday And Today, which went to No. 1 on July 30, 1966, where it stayed for five weeks.
When iTunes announced in 2010 that it had finally reached an
agreement with Apple Corps to digitally distribute the most celebrated
catalog in rock ’n’ roll history, the only Beatles fans who might have
had reason to protest were album-fetishizing purists. I admit I am one
of those people. I’m totally an LP-obsessed perv. I believe Beatles
albums are intended to be heard in a specific way, in a specific order,
just like they’ve always been heard.
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