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It\u2019s hard to think of any generation of rock music that didn\u2019t have The Beatles as a strange omnipresence. Oh, there were still the traditional rock and roll stars that managed to get the party rocking like Chuck Berry and Little Richard, but as soon as the Fab Four played on the Ed Sullivan Show, it felt like the dam had burst and every single soul on the planet had found the new love of their lives within the span of a few minutes. While that love has endured to this day, George Martin<\/a> had a certain idea of how everything came together.<\/p>\n When looking at where the band started, though, George Martin could be considered the ringleader in getting their music to sound the way it did. The Beatles were more or less a kickass bar band when they hooked up with Martin at Abbey Road Studios, but when he suggested working on some of their extravagant pieces, they developed into the hit machines that they were in their prime.<\/p>\n And considering the rapid pace of their records, they never exactly struck out all that often. Even for a band that had been thrown around the world with no real rhyme or reason, the fact that their \u201cworst\u201d album is Beatles for Sale<\/a> from their mid-period says a lot, given how tunes like \u2018Eight Days A Week\u2019 and \u2018Every Little Thing\u2019 land on that album. <\/p>\n Before the moptop wigs started coming out and before the silver screen came calling with A Hard Day\u2019s Night, Please Please Me was the first time that Martin was considerably impressed with their work. The title track had been in the can for a while, but whereas the ballad version of the tune sounded decent, the uptempo energy of the real version was enough to convince Martin they had made their number-one single.<\/p>\n Though it did end up charting, tunes like \u2018I Saw Her Standing There\u2019 had a much better shot at reaching the big time once it crossed over to the US. The American market may have been far different from what they had been used to at home, but there was an international agreement that \u2018I Want To Hold Your Hand\u2019 was one of the finest melodies that Lennon and McCartney had put together. <\/p>\n \u201cEventually the flood gates opened in America in 1964 with \u2018I Want To Hold Your Hand,\u2019 and from that point on it was mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n George Martin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n