Portrait of British pop group The Beatles (L-R) Paul McCartney, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Ringo Starr and John Lennon (1940 - 1980) at the BBC Television Studios in London before the start of their world tour, June 17, 1966. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Two iconic albums came out on January 20thMeet The Beatles! in 1964 and Bob Dylan’s 1975 masterpiece Blood On The Tracks.

For The Beatles, Meet The Beatles! was their second album to land stateside but their first release under Capitol Records.  It featured a few tracks that you may have heard of like “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “I Saw Her Standing There and “All My Loving.”  (Yes…we’re being sarcastic.)

The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (live)

1963 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThe-Beatles%2Fe%2FB000APTK6K%3Fqid%3D1289755917%26sr%3D1-2-ent&tag=concerts0b-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 Watch more: http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com/ "I Saw Her Standing There" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and is the opening track on The Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me, released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone on 22 March 1963.

 

Meet The Beatles! has sold over five million copies to date.  As for what happened next for those four lads from Liverpool, well…if you don’t know, then clearly you have been living under a rock for the past five decades.

Eleven years after America met The Beatles, they stared down Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks, which is now one of Dylan’s most celebrated albums, but upon its release, that wasn’t the case.

The press were mixed at best by Dylan’s predominantly acoustic album, which many speculate is largely about his marriage to wife, Sara, falling apart, even though the legendary singer-songwriter said in his 2004 memoir Chronicles, Vol. 1 that the album was inspired by Anton Chekhov’s short stories.

Regardless of your interpretation, Blood On The Tracks more importantly gave us “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” “Simple Twist of Fate” and “Tangled Up In Blue,” and simply having these tracks is more important than any back story.

 

 

Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock reporter. The first man she ever loved was Jack Daniel.  True story.

Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock news blogger who's well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights