The Beatles – Help!

Live on television: Sunday 01/08/1965.
The Beatles made just one television appearance in Britain to promote the Help! album; other shows had to run pre-recorded clips instead.
Blackpool Night Out was made by ABC TV, and was filmed at the ABC Theatre in Blackpool. It was shown by all but one of the ITV companies across the UK, in a live broadcast between 9.10pm and 10.05pm.

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“Help!” is a song by the Beatles that served as the title song for both the 1965 film and its soundtrack album. It was also released as a single, and was number one for three weeks in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

“Help!” was written primarily by John Lennon, but credited to Lennon-McCartney. During an interview with Playboy in 1984, Paul McCartney stated that the title was “out of desperation”. In 2004, “Help!” was ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.

“Help!” went to number 1 on both the UK and US singles charts in late summer 1965. It was the fourth of six number 1 singles in a row on the American charts: “I Feel Fine”, “Eight Days a Week”, “Ticket to Ride”, “Help!”, “Yesterday” and “We Can Work It Out”.[14] At the following year’s Ivor Novello Awards, “Help!” was named as the second best-selling single of 1965, behind “We Can Work It Out”. “Help!” was nominated in four categories at the 1966 Grammy Awards but failed to win in any of them.

The song appears on the Help! LP, the US Help! soundtrack, 1962–1966, the Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack, 1, Love, and The Capitol Albums, Volume 2. The mono version (with different vocals and no tambourine) was included on the Beatles’ Rarities LP and in The Beatles in Mono collection. The American soundtrack album included a James Bond-type introduction to the song, followed by a caesura just before the opening lyric. No such introduction appeared on the British soundtrack album, nor was it included in the released single in either country.

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