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The album was listed at #331 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.]] It would spawn hits such as "Help!", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "Ticket to Ride", and "Yesterday", one of the most recorded songs of all time.[[note]]Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords once claimed it to be the single most recorded song, with upwards of 2,000 versions, but Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} points out that there are at least 20,000 known versions of [[Theatre/PorgyAndBess "Summertime"]], and no doubt there are other Tin Pan Alley standards that meet or exceed that number. [[Music/MerryChristmas "White Christmas"]] is probably a strong contender for the title[[/note]]

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# "Help!"

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!! It's Only Tropes:

The album was listed at #331 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.]] It would spawn hits such as "Help!", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "Ticket to Ride", and "Yesterday", the most recorded song of all time.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lennon wrote "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" about a man trying to keep his homosexuality a secret, most obviously referring to their manager Brian Epstein. The lyrics itself don't directly allude to it, though.
** "Ticket to Ride" isn't about a girl with a train ticket, it's about [[TheOldestProfession her getting her streetwalking license.]]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Music/PaulMcCartney dreamt the melody of "Yesterday" during his sleep. When he woke up he asked everyone whether they could remember who wrote it? As it turned out he had invented it himself and so he recorded it as a solo piece, without the rest of the band. It would become the most often covered song in history.

* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Music/BuckOwens and Larry Williams, respectively. Apart from a throwaway rendition of the "trad. arr." bawdy song "Maggie Mae" on ''Music/LetItBe'', these two, plus another Williams cover, "Bad Boy", recorded alongside "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", would be the last covers to feature on a Beatles record.[[note]]"Bad Boy" was released on the Creator/CapitolRecords ''Beatles VI'' album in America a couple months before the film came out, but [[ShortRunInPeru it didn't get issued in the UK]] until it was included on the GreatestHitsAlbum ''A Collection of Beatles Oldies'' in late 1966[[/note]]

* FaceOnTheCover: The band is shown from a distance and in different clothing, but in an empty background that does not distract from the viewer watching at them.

--> ''When I was younger, so much younger than today. I never needed anybody's help in any way''

--> ''Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away''.

* OneWordTitle: "Help".

[[caption-width-right:350:The standard album cover for ''Help!'']]

* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Buck Owens and Larry Williams, respectively. Apart from a throwaway rendition of the "trad. arr." bawdy song "Maggie Mae" on ''Music/LetItBe'', these two, plus another Williams cover, "Bad Boy", recorded alongside "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", would be the last covers to feature on a Beatles record.[[note]]"Bad Boy" was released on the Creator/CapitolRecords ''Beatles VI'' album in America a couple months before the film came out, but [[ShortRunInPeru it didn't get issued in the UK]] until it was included on the GreatestHitsAlbum ''A Collection of Beatles Oldies'' in late 1966[[/note]]

* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Buck Owens and Larry Williams, respectively. Apart from a throwaway rendition of the "trad. arr." bawdy song "Maggie Mae" on ''Music/LetItBe'', these would be the last covers to feature on a Beatles record.

* ExcitedShowTitle: "Help!", as well as this album and [[Film/{{Help}} the film]].

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[[caption-width-right:320:The standard album cover for ''Help!'']]
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[[caption-width-right:320:The alternate album cover for ''Help!'', used in the US.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The standard album cover for ''Help!'']]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cd1094_5831.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The alternate album cover for ''Help!'', used in the US.]]

* CoverVersion: "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" are covers of Buck Owens and Larry Williams, respectively. These would be the last covers the Beatles ever recorded.

* ShoutOut:
** Music/TheRutles spoofed the film and the title track as "Ouch!" in their film "The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash".
** Inside the booklet of Music/{{Gorillaz}}' album ''Music/DemonDays'' the illustration for the song "Every planet we reach is dead" has the band members strike poses that mimick the album cover of ''Help!''.
** The tabletop game ''TabletopGame/TicketToRide'' was named after the song of the same name.

The album was listed at #331 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.]]

# "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"

# "You're Going To Lose That Girl"
# "Ticket To Ride"

# "I've Just Seen A Face"

# "From Me To You Fantasy"*
# "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"

# "In The Tyrol"*

# "Ticket To Ride"

# "You're Going To Lose That Girl"

'''''Help!''''' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort of soundtrack to [[Film/{{Help}} the movie of the same name.]] It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.

* UrbanLegend: The album cover supposedly has the band mimicking the word "help" in semaphore sign language. This was originally the idea, but the photographer felt the movements they made didn't look as photogenic, so he allowed the band to strike other poses that looked better.

[[caption-width-right:350:The standard album cover for ''Help!''.]]

'''''Help!''''' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to [[Film/{{Help}} the movie of the same name]]. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.

Interestingly, the album cover with the Beatles using flag semaphore to spell "HELP" is inaccurate. It instead spells "NUJV". According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, this inaccuracy was intentional as it turned out that the "HELP" arrangement didn't look good enough. On the US version of the album, it was changed to "NVUJ".

The album was listed at #331 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].

* AlbumTitleDrop: Immediately from the first line.
--> ''HELP!''
--> ''I need somebody''
--> ''HELP!''
--> ''Not just anybody''
--> ''HELP!''
--> ''You know I need someone''
--> ''H-EEEELP!''

The album was listed at nr. #331 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime''.

'''''Help!''''' is the fifth studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1965. Like their earlier album ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' it served as a sort-of soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It would also be their final studio album until ''Music/LetItBe'' to feature any covers.

---> She was mine yesterday
---> I believed that love was here to stay
---> Won't you tell me where I've gone astray
---> Please answer me O Lord

** Another version of the story behind "Yesterday" has Paul playing it on the piano in Alma Cogan's flat in Kensington. He was sure it was an existing tune but couldn't recall where it came from. He may have been thinking of Answer Me, a huge hit for both Frankie Laine and David Whitfield in the 1950s. There are certainly some similarities between the two songs. Answer Me contains the lines