Editing The Beatles (album) (section)

===Singles===
"[[Hey Jude]]" was recorded at the end of July 1968 during the sessions for ''The Beatles'' but was issued separately as a single nearly three months before the album's release.{{sfn|MacDonald|1997|p=264}} This was the first release on Apple Records and ultimately the band's most successful single in the US.{{sfn|MacDonald|1997|p=266}} The B-side, "Revolution", was a different version of the album's "Revolution&nbsp;1". Lennon wanted the original version of "Revolution" to be released as a single, but the other three Beatles objected that it was too slow. Instead, new, faster version, with heavily distorted guitar and an electric piano solo by [[Nicky Hopkins]] was featured on the "Hey Jude" single.{{sfn|MacDonald|1997|p=259}}

The convention in the British music industry at the time was that singles and albums were distinct entities and should not duplicate songs.{{sfn|MacDonald|1997|p=201}}{{efn|In February 1967, the Beatles had been unhappy about having to accede to [[Capitol Records]]' demand for a new single, because the two tracks, "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]" and "[[Penny Lane]]", were therefore ineligible for inclusion on ''Sgt. Pepper''.{{sfn|MacDonald|1997|p=201}}}} But although no singles were taken from ''The Beatles'' in Britain or America, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" backed with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was released in other markets. The single was a commercial success in Australia (where it spent five weeks at number one on the ''[[Go-Set]]'' chart),<ref>{{cite web |title=Go-Set Australian charts ~ 1969 |url=http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1969/1969.html |work=Australian Pop Archives |access-date=2 April 2014 |archive-date=15 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915041511/http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1969/1969.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Japan,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www18.ocn.ne.jp/~hbr/JPP1.htm |title=Japan No. 1 Import Disks |publisher=Oricon Hot Singles |access-date=17 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421200743/http://www18.ocn.ne.jp/~hbr/JPP1.htm |archive-date=21 April 2015 }}</ref> Austria<ref>{{cite web |url=http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Beatles&titel=Ob-La-Di%2C+Ob-La-Da&cat=s |title=The Beatles: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da |publisher=austriancharts.at |access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref> and Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hitparade.ch/song/The-Beatles/Ob-La-Di,-Ob-La-Da-71 |title=The Beatles: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da |publisher=hitparade.ch |access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref>