“Please, Please Me” – A Gay Anthem?
According to this report in the Sunday TImes newspaper, the classic Beatles album “Please, Please Me” is considered as “one of the top 50 gay albums of all time. ”
The 1963 album, is ranked alongside records by Abba, Elton John and Boy George in a gay pop pantheon published by Attitude, a gay lifestyle magazine. “That summer it was the gay album,†said Simon Napier-Bell, the former manager of Wham! who nominated the record. “Every party, every club, everywhere you went, Please Please Me blasted out. George and Paul singing into one microphone, their cheeks touching, was the gayest thing we’d ever seen.â€
The Beatles rarely wrote about homosexuality, although You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away is thought to have been about Brian Epstein, their gay manager. But, the magazine claims, the Beatles’ first album, ranked 30th in the list, represented “a turning point — the beginning of the modern gay eraâ€, because it embodied a sense of sexual freedom and tolerance
