Editing Please Please Me (section)

==Artwork and packaging==
George Martin was an [[honorary fellow]] of the [[Zoological Society of London]], which owns [[London Zoo]], and he thought that it might be good publicity for the zoo to have the Beatles pose outside the insect house for the cover photography of the album. However, the society turned down Martin's request, and instead, [[Angus McBean]] was asked to take the distinctive colour photograph of the group looking down over the stairwell inside EMI's London headquarters in [[Manchester Square]].{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=32}} Martin was to write later: "We rang up the legendary theatre photographer Angus McBean, and bingo, he came round and did it there and then. It was done in an almighty rush, like the music. Thereafter, though, the Beatles' own creativity came bursting to the fore."{{sfn|Martin|Pearson|1994|p=121}} In 1969, the Beatles asked McBean to recreate this shot. Although the 1969 photograph was originally intended for the then-planned ''Get Back'' album, it was not used when that project saw eventual release in 1970 as ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]''. Instead, the 1969 photograph, along with an unused photograph from the 1963 photo shoot, was used in 1973 for the Beatles' retrospective albums ''[[1962–1966]]'' and ''[[1967–1970]]''. Another unused photograph from the 1963 photo shoot was used for ''[[The Beatles (No. 1)]]'' (EP released 1 November 1963).

The Beatles' press officer [[Tony Barrow]] wrote extensive [[sleeve notes]], which included a brief mention of their early 1960s rivals [[the Shadows]].{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}