{"id":30073,"date":"2024-08-06T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-6-1965-the-beatles-release-their-fifth-album-help\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:03:23","slug":"on-this-day-aug-6-1965-the-beatles-release-their-fifth-album-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-6-1965-the-beatles-release-their-fifth-album-help\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 6, 1965: The Beatles release their fifth album, &#8216;Help!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-06\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 6, 1965\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Beatles<\/strong> released their fifth studio album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Help!,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> which was the soundtrack to their film of the same name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album produced three #1 singles, including the title track, \u201cYesterday,\u201d and \u201cTicket to Ride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Help!<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> was a critical success, and hit #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Album chart,\u00a0spending\u00a0nine weeks in the top spot.\u00a0It was also nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys, marking The Beatles&#8217; first Grammy nomination in that category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Help!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">was the second film to star The Beatles. It had the band trying to protect drummer\u00a0<strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>, who&#8217;s the target of a sinister cult and mad scientists trying to obtain a sacrificial ring\u00a0he received as a gift from a fan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 6, 1965\u2026 The Beatles released their fifth studio album Help!, which was the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The album produced three #1 singles, including the title track, \u201cYesterday,\u201d and \u201cTicket to Ride.\u201d Help! was a critical success, and hit #1 on the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-6-1965-the-beatles-release-their-fifth-album-help\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}