Released during one of the bitterest winters in British history, "Please Please Me," The Beatles' second 7" single release, helped to initiate a post-war sociocultural thaw among British youth. The release had a similar effect on its U.K. audience that "I Want To Hold Your Hand" would have upon a U.S. audience almost 12 months later.
Released on January 11th 1963, the record's meteoric ascent up the charts brought the Beatles into virtually every British home, against the backdrop of the freezing winter and the unfolding political sex scandal of the Profumo affair.
Written in John Lennon’s childhood bedroom as a deliberate bluesy attempt at 
emulating Roy Orbison, "Please Please Me" became the Beatles’ first number one (NME and Melody Maker polls) hit single in the U.K., catapulting the group out of Liverpool and installing them as overnight national stars in one fell swoop.
In 1980 its author, Lennon, reflected:
"Please Please Me" is my song completely. It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it? I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie’s place. I heard Roy Orbison doing "Only The Lonely’"or something. That’s where that came from. And also I was always intrigued by the words of "Please Lend Your Ears To My Pleas," a Bing Crosby song. I was always intrigued by the double use of the word "please.’" So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison.
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