The most popular Beatles' album, Please Please Me, spent forty-three weeks in the Top Ten. By comparison, the soundtrack of the American musical South Pacific spent forty-six weeks at number one, and more than three years in the Top Ten. Yet even this was dwarfed by the outstanding musical product of the sixties, Rogers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. The two versions of this phenomenally successful musical - a Broadway recording from 1960 and the film soundtrack of 1965 - remained in the Top Ten of the album chart for more than five years, and the film soundtrack held the number one spot for a staggering 69 weeks.
D. Sandbrook, White Heat (2006), 412-3
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