Shortly before The Beatles’ history-making Stateside visit, Capitol Records secured exclusive U.S. rights to release the band’s recordings in a deal with EMI. The storied, already iconic record label rush released Meet The Beatles! on January 20, 1964.

Apple’s rerelease of the Beatles’ first seven U.S. LPs affords music lovers with a powerful window into the storied days of 1964, when the group captured the nation’s imagination in unique and virtually unparalleled fashion.

Capitol is reissuing the seven albums the fab four put out in the US during a crazy fifteen month period between January 1964 and March 1965 that represented the peak of Beatlemania in the States. They’re out on November 22 on 180-gram audiophile vinyl.

The 60th anniversary of the peak year for Beatlemania in the United States, 1964, is being celebrated with the release of “The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono,” a forthcoming boxed set that compiles seven albums that were released by the Fab Four in the States during that year (or,