The Beatles: Twist and Shout EP туралы

Twist and Shout is the first UK extended play by the English rock band the Beatles, released in the UK on EMI's Parlophone label on 12 July 1963. It contains four tracks produced by George Martin that were previously released on the band's debut album Please Please Me. Rush released to meet public appetite, the record topped the UK EP chart for twenty one weeks, the biggest selling EP of all time in the UK to that point, and became so successful that it registered on the NME Singles Chart, peaking at number four. The EP's cover photograph, featuring the Beatles jumping in a London bombsite, has been described by The Telegraph as "one of the key images of the 1960s".

"Twist and Shout", written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns and first recorded by R&B vocal group the Top Notes, typically closed the Beatles' set during their 1963 tour of Great Britain with Roy Orbison. The band based their version of the twist song on the US hit version by the Isley Brothers recording and its "pounding beat" and "bloodcurdling John Lennon screams" made it a popular show stopper, according to Alan Smith of the New Musical Express. British record shops were reported to be similarly "besieged" by customers asking for the song. The popularity of the Beatles version of the song boosted British sales of the earlier Isley Brothers recording that inspired it, first released in the UK in July 1962, and led to the release of a version by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes on Decca. refn|group=nb|According to Peter Blackman of the Evening Sentinel, the increased sales of the Isleys' "Twist and Shout", previously unsuccessful in the UK, demonstrated "just how easily the public can be manipulated". Side one of the EP features the title track (sung by Lennon) and "A Taste of Honey" (sung by McCartney), a Broadway song written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow that was first recorded in a vocal version by Billy Dee Williams in 1961. Side two contains two Lennon McCartney originals, "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (sung by George Harrison), then a recent UK chart hit in a version by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and "There's a Place" (sung by Lennon and McCartney). All four tracks were recorded on 11 February 1963 in sessions that resulted in the bulk of the Please Please Me album.

The sleeve photograph, described by The Telegraph as "one of the key images of the 1960s, seeming to promise a new era in which youthful energy and vitality would triumph over drab postwar austerity", shows the Beatles jumping in the air at a bombsite off Euston Road, London. It was taken by Fiona Adams, a young photographer keen to "break away from the conventional Hollywood style of stage and studio shot", on a twin lens Rolleiflex camera on 18 April 1963. The shot was featured in Boyfriend magazine before it was chosen for the EP. refn|group=nb|The shot was later used on the cover of the Beatles' first Canadian album release, also titled Twist and Shout.

Advance orders of the Twist and Shout EP were reported to total at over 100,000 by its day of release on 12 July 1963. It topped the national EP chart compiled by Record Retailer for 21 non consecutive weeks beginning 27 July 1963 and ultimately spent 64 weeks on the chart. It was certified silver, for more than 250,000 sales, on 13 August 1963, having become the biggest selling EP of all time to that point in the UK. It later sold over 650,000 copies. Despite being more expensive than a single, the EP was so successful that it became the first EP to enter the top ten of the NME Singles Chart, peaking at number four. Two more EPs, The Beatles' Hits and The Beatles (No. 1), were commissioned by August. A competing Beatles EP on Polydor, produced in Germany for export, was issued to the band's displeasure on 21 June 1963. Entitled My Bonnie, it contains four 1961 Hamburg recordings of the Beatles with Pete Best, three of which feature the English rock and roll musician Tony Sheridan on lead vocals. The box set received a CD release in 1992.