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Title: The Beatles' Second Album
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1964 / Rock / Beat / Liverpool
Matrix #: ST-2080
Condition: EX (VZ)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle This came out during peak Beatlemania, when Capitol was rushing product to meet demand and the band had almost no control over how their U.S. catalog was being chopped up and repackaged.
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Media Narrative Despite the title, it was actually their third U.S. LP overall, and it replaced Meet the Beatles! at No. 1, a sign of how totally they were swallowing the American market in spring 1964.
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Studio Lore The stereo edition is infamous for Capitol’s fake-stereo Duophonic treatment on tracks like “She Loves You,” which made this one of the most debated early U.S. Beatles albums among collectors.
