Beatles for Sale

Background

Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 4 December 1964 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label. The album marked a departure from the upbeat tone that had characterised the Beatles' previous work, partly due to the band's exhaustion after a series of tours that had established them as a worldwide phenomenon in 1964. Beatles for Sale was not widely available in the US until 1987, when the Beatles' catalogue was standardised for release on CD. Instead, eight of the album's fourteen tracks, alongside "I'll Be Back", which was cut from the US version of the Hard Day's Night album, and both sides of the single "I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman", appeared on Capitol Records' concurrent release, Beatles '65, and the remaining six of the album's fourteen tracks, including both sides of the US single "Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", appeared on Capitol Records' seventh release, Beatles VI, both issued in North America only.