Fifty years ago today , the Beatles released their first LP , Please Please Me — and the quietus , as they say , is chronicle . To lionise this milepost , Pop Chart Labhas make three unbelievable infographics that break down the instrumentation of the Fab Four ’s Song dynasty in incredible detail . match out the prints , and some details on the creative summons behind creating them , below . All three infographics are usable to purchase , eitherontheirownor as abox set .
Volume 1: 1963 – 1965
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According to the Pop Chart Lab creative team , " [ we were ] love a radio - orgy of the best Rock N’Roll band in account , when it strike us how complicated things got in the belated - LSD period of the Fab Four . Not just complicated , but outright baroque when compared to , say , the unbowed - forrard 4 - piece John Rock tracks ofPlease Please MeandWith the Beatles . We all agreed it would be closely impossible to map out the orchestration of Song fromSgt PepperandMagical Mystery Tour — it just seemed like there weretoomany toll and pennywhistle ( perhaps literally ) . But impossible is one of favorite words , and the skilful motivator for us to turn a loss ourselves in research and chartography . "
Volume 2: 1966 – 1967
Still , they persevered , and found that " at the height of their experimentation , the Beatles used nearly every instrument conceivable , from sitar and dilrubas to full on brass arrangements to banging on an anvil and having someone look eerily in the background of a rail . "
Volume 3: 1968 – 1970
To present the data , the team " turn[ed ] the strain on their side . As we drew the parentage from song to cat’s-paw , we felt happily lost in the psychedelic swirls of the catalog , and three distinguishable Beatle stop presented themselves : The mop - top schoolboy Beatles , the surrealSgt Peppermarching stria , and the roof - top playacting , unshavenLet It Beveterans at the end of a long , fruitful life history . "
