50(!) years ago today. The album "Please Please Me" is released...

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...from Wikipedia:

Please Please Me was released as an LP album on Parlophone in the UK on 22 March 1963, and has remained on UK catalogue continuously from 1963 to the present.

Release formats:

Vinyl (12&quot record (stereo and mono)[20][21]
Reel-to-reel (3-3/4-ips) (mono) (paperbox) [deleted late 1960s][22]
Reel-to-reel (3-3/4-ips (mono)+(stereo)) (plastic boxes) [deleted mid-1970s]
8-track tape (stereo) [deleted late 1970s]
Cassette tape (originally released in stereo, re-issued in mono in 1988) [deleted late 1990s][23]
CD (1987 version) (mono) [deleted 2009][24]
CD (remastered in 2009) (stereo and limited edition mono)[25]
Digital Download (remastered in 2009) (stereo)
Vinyl (re-issued of 1963 Vinyl, but used 2009 CD release) (stereo)

In the United States, most of the songs on Please Please Me were first issued on Vee-Jay Records' Introducing... The Beatles in 1964, and subsequently on Capitol Records' The Early Beatles in 1965. Please Please Me was not released in the US until the Beatles' catalogue was standardised for CD.

In New Zealand, the album first appeared only in mono on the black Parlophone label. The following year (1964) EMI(NZ) changed from black to a blue Parlophone label and the album was again available only in mono. Due to constant demand, it was finally made available in stereo, first through the World Record Club on their Young World label in both mono and stereo, and finally on the blue Parlophone label.

The album was released on CD on 26 February 1987 in mono, as were their three subsequent albums, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale. It was not released on vinyl or tape in the US until five months later when it was issued for the first time in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.[citation needed]

Please Please Me was remastered and re-released on CD in stereo, along with all the other original UK studio albums, on 9 September 2009.[26] The 2009 remasters replaced the 1987 remasters. A remastered mono CD was also available as part of the limited edition The Beatles in Mono box set.[27]