While travelling with the rest of their tour companions from York to Shrewsbury on this day, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote their third single From Me To You.
"The night Paul and I wrote From Me To You, we were on the Helen Shapiro tour, on the coach, travelling from York to Shrewsbury. We weren't taking ourselves seriously – just fooling around on the guitar – when we began to get a good melody line, and we really started to work at it. Before that journey was over, we'd completed the lyric, everything. I think the first line was mine and we took it from there. What puzzled us was why we'd thought of a name like From Me To You. It had me thinking when I picked up the NME to see how we were doing in the charts. Then I realised – we'd got the inspiration from reading a copy on the coach. Paul and I had been talking about one of the letters in the From You To Us column."
-John Lennon
Anthology
The song was inspired by From You To Us, the letters section of the New Musical Express, though Lennon and McCartney didn't realise it at the time.
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