Editing Please Please Me (section)

== Retrospective assessment ==
{{Album ratings
| rev1       = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=''Please Please Me'' – The Beatles|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/please-please-me-mw0000649873 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429204447/https://www.allmusic.com/album/please-please-me-mw0000649873 |archive-date=29 April 2021}}</ref>
| rev2       = ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
| rev2Score  = A<ref name="Klosterman">{{cite news |last=Klosterman |first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Klosterman |date=8 September 2009 |url=https://www.avclub.com/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles-1798217828 |title=Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=26 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522154556/http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles%2C32560/ |archive-date=22 May 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref>
| rev3       = ''[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence of Sound]]''
| rev3Score  = A−<ref name="COS">{{cite web |last=Young |first=Alex |url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/09/album-review-the-beatles-please-please-me-remastered/ |title=Album Review: The Beatles – Please Please Me <nowiki>[Remastered]</nowiki> |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence of Sound]] |date=15 September 2009 |access-date=25 March 2015 |archive-date=7 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207130757/http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/09/album-review-the-beatles-please-please-me-remastered/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev4       = ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''
| rev4Score  = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="McCormick">{{cite web |last=McCormick |first=Neil |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/6138590/The-Beatles-Please-Please-Me-review.html |title=The Beatles – ''Please Please Me'', review |date=4 September 2009 |access-date=21 November 2011 |archive-date=7 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407053208/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/6138590/The-Beatles-Please-Please-Me-review.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev5       = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev5Score  = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2006|publisher=[[Muze]]|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|volume=1|pages=487–489|isbn=0-19-531373-9}}</ref>
| rev6       = [[MusicHound]]
| rev6Score  = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|edition=2nd|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/88 88]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/88}}</ref>
| rev7       = ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]''
| rev7Score  = 92/100<ref name="Paste">{{cite journal|last=Kemp|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Kemp|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-beatles/the-beatles-the-long-and-winding-repertoire/|title=The Beatles: The Long and Winding Repertiore|journal=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|date=5 August 2009|access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref>
| rev8       = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev8Score  = 9.5/10<ref name="PM">{{cite web |first=Tom |last=Ewing |title=The Beatles: ''Please Please Me'' Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13419-please-please-me/ |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref>
| rev9       = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9Score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="RSAG">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/albumguide |title=The Beatles &#124; Album Guide |magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920032458/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/albumguide|archive-date=20 September 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=25 March 2015}}</ref>
| rev10      = Sputnikmusic
| rev10Score = 4/5<ref name="sputnikmusic">{{cite web|author=Med57|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/1342/The-Beatles-Please-Please-Me/|title=The Beatles – Please Please Me (album review)|date=16 January 2005|website=Sputnikmusic|access-date=5 January 2013|archive-date=16 February 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216195207/http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/1342/The-Beatles-Please-Please-Me/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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In a 1987 review coinciding with the album's CD reissue, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's Steve Pond recommended ''Please Please Me'' "for the Beatles' unfettered joy at making music".<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine |first=Steve |last=Pond |title=The Beatles: Please Please Me |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/please-please-me-19870716 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=16 July 1987 |access-date=8 September 2017 |archive-date=15 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915102157/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/please-please-me-19870716 |url-status=live }}</ref> Senior [[AllMusic]] editor [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] summarised, "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh", serving as an effective encapsulation of the band's early influences, further finding the covers "impressive" and the originals "astonishing".<ref name="AM" />

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine cited Lennon&ndash;McCartney's original compositions as early evidence of the Beatles' "[invention of] the idea of the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments".<ref name="RSbio">{{cite magazine |title=The Beatles Biography |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebeatles/biography |access-date=24 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220235812/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebeatles/biography |archive-date=20 February 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The album's 2009 remaster attracted a number of reviewers. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''{{'s}} Tom Ewing described the album as "a raw, high-energy run-through of their early live set" that acts as "the sound of rock'n'roll finding a suddenly large, new audience."<ref name="PM" /> He praised the album's cohesiveness, where the "evening with the band" mood sets it apart from the band's other cover-heavy works, creating a non-filler track experience with great covers and originals and, above all, great vocal performances.<ref name="PM" /> The same year, [[Mark Kemp]] was positive reviewing the band's entire remastered catalogue for ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'', commending the band for infusing African American musical styles with "chirpy harmonies" from girl groups like the Shirelles to create "a sound the pop world had never heard".<ref name="Paste" /> ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' writer [[Neil McCormick]] praised the band's performances throughout the record, contending that "the sheer accomplishment of their tight, syncopated playing and perfect harmony singing is astonishing to behold."<ref name="McCormick" /> Alex Young described the album as a dance masterpiece in ''[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence of Sound]]'', finding the remaster an improvement over the original mix.<ref name="COS" />

Writing for [[BBC Music]] in 2010, Mike Diver contended that although not regarded as their most critically acclaimed release, ''Please Please Me'' stands as a "vital moment" in the band's history, as it "set in motion the wheels that would carry them to the very peak of public recognition, and subsequently into realms of sonic experimentation that would create a template for so much rock and pop music since."<ref name="BBC" /> Diver further argued that the album's long reign at the top of the UK charts provided a rebuttal to [[Decca Records]]' stance that guitar groups were "on the way out".<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |last=Diver |first=Mike |title=The Beatles ''Please Please Me'' Review |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6jwx/ |website=BBC Music |access-date=24 April 2022 |date=2010}}</ref> The writers of ''Rolling Stone'' agreed in ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', writing that ''Please Please Me'' acted as a blueprint for "everything the Beatles would ever do".<ref name="RSAG" />

In ''[[Ultimate Classic Rock]]'', Michael Gallucci praised ''Please Please Me'' as a cohesive debut album that established a rough blueprint in the Beatles' working methods over the next few years, despite finding some tracks did not work as well as others, concluding, "''Please Please Me'' proved that the music that everyone was ignoring was uniformly great."<ref name="UCR">{{cite web |last=Gallucci |first=Michael |title=How the Beatles Came Storming Out With 'Please Please Me' |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-please-please-me/ |website=[[Ultimate Classic Rock]] |access-date=24 April 2022 |date=22 March 2016}}</ref> Looking back on the album in 2016, the ''[[NME]]''{{'s}} Hamish MacBain found it imperfect, but commended the ensemble for creating a record of excellent covers and originals that displayed "flashes of brilliance". MacBain acknowledged the band would make better records, but concluded that "the resulting, snapshot nature" of their debut outing "is exactly what makes it so great".<ref name="MacBain">{{cite web |last1=MacBain |first1=Hamish |title=How The Beatles' Debut 'Please Please Me' Would Change The Fab Four Forever |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-beatles-please-please-me-769691 |website=[[NME]] |access-date=24 April 2022 |date=22 March 2016}}</ref>

===Rankings===
''Please Please Me'' has made appearances on several best-of lists. In 2012, it was voted 39th on ''Rolling Stone''{{'s}} list of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. It was ranked first among the Beatles' early albums, and sixth of all of the Beatles' albums, with ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]'', ''[[Rubber Soul]]'', ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' (also known as "The White Album") and ''[[Abbey Road]]'' ranked higher.<ref name="rollingstone1">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beatles-please-please-me-20120524|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Beatles, 'Please Please Me'|magazine=Rolling Stone|year=2012|access-date=15 February 2013|archive-date=22 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022191705/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beatles-please-please-me-20120524|url-status=live}}</ref> English writer [[Colin Larkin]] listed ''Please Please Me'' at number 622 in the third edition of his book ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|first=Colin|last=Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|location=London|date=2006|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=206}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' also placed two songs from the album on its 2004 edition of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]": "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" at number 140, and "Please Please Me" at number 186.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=11 December 2003 |title=500 Greatest Songs of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/elvis-presley-dont-be-cruel-55974/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622142703/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs/page/2 |archive-date=22 June 2008 |access-date=11 April 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>

Several publications, including ''NME'',<ref>{{cite web |title=50 Greatest Debut Albums |url=http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-debut-albums/196597/page/1 |website=NME |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111093040/http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-debut-albums/196597/page/1 |archive-date=11 November 2010 |date=11 November 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> have named ''Please Please Me'' one of the best debut albums of all time, with ''Rolling Stone'' and ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' both ranking it number 17.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=100 Best Debut Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-best-debut-albums-of-all-time-143608/please-please-me-2-229322/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319193933/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-best-debut-albums-of-all-time-143608/please-please-me-2-229322/ |archive-date=19 March 2022 |date=13 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The 100 Greatest Debut Albums |journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |date=August 2006 |issue=111}}</ref> In 2015, ''[[Ultimate Classic Rock]]'' ranked it the Beatles' eighth best album and included it in their list of the top 100 rock albums from the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gallucci |first1=Michael |title=Beatles Albums Ranked Worst to Best |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-albums-ranked/ |website=[[Ultimate Classic Rock]] |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027045523/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-albums-ranked/ |archive-date=27 October 2021 |date=10 June 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top 100 '60s Rock Albums |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/60s-rock-albums/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306231627/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/60s-rock-albums/ |archive-date=6 March 2022 |date=19 March 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===50th anniversary===
In 2013, the album's 50th anniversary was celebrated by modern artists re-recording the album in just one day, as the Beatles recorded it 50 years earlier. [[Stereophonics]] recorded a cover of the album's opening track, "I Saw Her Standing There". This and the other recordings were broadcast on [[BBC Radio 2]], and a documentary about the re-recording of the Beatles' debut album was broadcast on BBC Television.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giles |first=Jeff |date=18 January 2013 |title=All-Star Re-Recording of the Beatles' 'Please Please Me' Planned |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/please-please-me-re-recording/ |access-date=10 April 2022 |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 2 - 12 Hours to Please Me, Stereophonics - I Saw Her Standing There - Please Please Me session |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014yr62 |access-date=11 April 2022 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Four - The Beatles' Please Please Me: Remaking a Classic |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qnrb8 |access-date=11 April 2022 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>