10 Rock Music Debuts That Changed The Game

When the Beatles first got started, no one had ever thought of having a rock band laid out like this. While Chuck Berry and Little Richard all had bands behind them, every part of the Fab Four functioned as a single entity, giving the world Four Elvises for the price of one. Before the surge of Beatlemania swept the world though, they were just an average bar band going in to cut some tunes.

After snagging a deal with Parlophone Records, Please Please Me essentially is the Beatles' live album, cut right off the floor in Abbey Road Studios. Only having a single day to run through most of their material, most of the songs on here were knocked out in just 11 hours, with the band honing their chops after playing countless gigs at the Cavern Club. While there are some lovable covers on here like Ringo's take on the Shirelles' Boys, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were already a great songwriting team, from the rocking sounds of I Saw Her Standing There to the strange melodic turns of a song like There's a Place.

Capping things off with a cover of Twist and Shout, this was the start of the Beatles' slow takeover of the world, with their arrival at the Ed Sullivan Show not being too far behind this record. It would be a long time before they started to expand their mind on their albums, but removing any of their future successes, there was still a decent little rock band underneath all of that.