The reason why John Lennon returned his MBE By 1965, The Beatles were already one of the biggest and most successful groups in popular music, culminating in the phenomenon known as Beatlemania. Whether you like them or not, you can’t deny this fact; to this day, they remain the best-selling musical act to have ever existed. It didn’t take long for the Fab Four to experience this kind of success; their first album, Please Please Me, peaked at number one and remained there for a whopping 30 weeks. Their astronomical commercial success didn’t end with the first album either –