BEATLES’ NUMBERS

by Federico Bini

Songs by the Beatles with a woman’s name in the title: 18
Number of “yeah” in She Loves You: 24
Hours taken to record Please Please Me: 12
Time taken by John to write Strawberry Fields Forever: 6 weeks
Time available to photographer Iain Macmillan to shoot the cover image for Abbey Road: 10 minutes
Grammy Awards: 14
Gold records: 42
Published songs: 183 (composed by John: 73, by Paul: 69, by Paul and John together: 17, by George: 22, by Ringo: 2)
Duration in seconds of the shortest song (Her Majesty): 23
Duration in seconds of the longest song (Revolution 9): 495
Copies of the movie A Hard Day’s Night printed for international distribution (time record): 15,000
Beatles’s members present at the premiere of the film Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970) in London: 0
Rejected names before choosing “The Beatles”: 7
Number of times Brian Epstein witnessed the weddings of the Beatles: 3
Posters printed by Capitol for the first US tour in 1964: 5,000,000
Television audience for the first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show: 73,000,000
Audience for the first worldwide broadcast (OUR WORLD), in which the Beatles performed All You Need Is Love: 400,000,000
• Spectators at the concert at Shea Stadium in New York on August 15, 1965: 55,600, box office: $304,000
Penalty in case of cancellation of the 1966 US tour: $1,000,000
Google search results for the Beatles: 184,000,000
People appearing on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: 69, chosen by Ringo: 0
Day of the month on which John was born, met Brian Epstein, met Yoko Ono, died (according to the English calendar): 9
Left-handed Beatles: 2
Specific instructions for drawing George’s character in the King Features Syndicate cartoons: 8; for Ringo: 7; for Paul and John, each: 5
Slices of pizza used by Ringo for the Pizza Hut commercial: 12
Price of admission for the lawn at the Beatles’ concert at the Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan (June 24, 1965): 2,000 lire
Songs that John Lennon and Paul McCartney passed on to other musicians between 1963 and 1969: 27
Different artists who have recorded Yesterday: over 3,000
Members of The Official Beatles Fan Club in 1965: 80,000
Promotion and advertising expenses for the first US tour (1964): $50,000
Hours spent in the airplane during the second US tour in August-September 1964: 60.5
Police officers on duty at the concert at Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan: 1,300