The 15-song recording dates to the Liverpool band's failed audition for Decca Records in early 1962—months before it released ...

The presentation edition coins were handcrafted by The Royal Mint in 5kg formats with input from Paul McCartney’s production company, MPL Communications, and with the 82-year-old Beatles legend.

With a little help from EW, see John, Paul, George, and Ringo in their day-to-day lives as they made history as the best-selling music act of all time.

In the early 1960s, before the Beatles signed with Parlophone records and released Please Please Me, the band went searching for a label to sign with. Part of that search included recording an ...