With the Beatles is The Beatles' second UK album. It was recorded four months after the band's first album, Please Please Me and was released on 22 November, 1963. The album sold so well in England, it qualified to enter the hit singles charts.
Most of the songs were used again in the first American Beatles album issued by Capitol Records, Meet The Beatles! Other songs appeared on The Beatles' Second Album. In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
↑Hase, Stewart; Kenyon, Chris (2013). Self-Determined Learning: Heutagogy in Action. A&C Black. p. 119. ISBN978-1441108913. With the Beatles…demonstrated the 'uniform traits' of the Mersey Beat style
↑O'Dell, Denis; Neaverson, Bob (2002). At the Apple's core: the Beatles from the inside. Peter Owen Limited. p. 27. the first truly convincing British rock and roll album, With The Beatles
↑Howlett, Kevin; Heatley, Mike (2009). With the Beatles (CD historical notes). p. 12.
↑Courrier, Kevin (2008). Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream. ABC-CLIO. p. 62. ISBN978-0313345876. …the bold R&B of With the Beatles