But among all that explosive positive energy, it's hard not to sense, somewhere in the background, a reaction to the missile crisis. The Beatles' extraordinary breakthrough from that date onwards has been put down to a variety of factors, not the least the quality of their music. As a Soviet general later said, Earth was "minutes" away from "catastrophe". In the days that followed, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.
Four days later, the Cuban missile crisis began, when a US reconnaissance plane spotted Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
On 11 October 1962, the Beatles' first single for EMI, Love Me Do, entered the UK charts.
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