Paul McCartney Admitted admitted that “Please Please Me” was more of Lennon’s song than his own
According to McCartney, he didn’t have all that much to do with writing the song. He admitted that “Please Please Me” was more of Lennon’s song than his own.
“We’d had a fair bit of practice writing over the years, though our legendary ‘first one hundred’ was probably in reality less than half that amount of songs,” McCartney said in 1995. “‘Please Please Me’ was more John than me; I didn’t have such a hand in it.”
McCartney said he had more to do with other songs they released around this time.
“‘PS I Love You’ was more me,” he said. “‘From Me To You’ was both of us, very much together. (I remember being very pleased with the middle eight because there was a strange chord in it, and it went into a minor: ‘I’ve got arms that long…’ We thought that was a very big step.) ‘She Loves You’ was custom-built for the record we had to make. ‘Love Me Do’ was a bit of a ‘two-song.’”
“Please Please Me” was a success for the band, but audiences might have received it differently if they heard the original version. Beatles producer George Martin said the song was slow and boring when he first heard it.
“In the first year, I had the final decision on songs (I didn’t later on, but I did then), but they persuaded me to let them have their own songs on both sides of their first single,” Martin said.
“I was still thinking that we should release their recording of ‘How Do You Do It.’ They said, ‘Couldn’t we do one of our own, “Please Please Me?”’ When I heard it originally, it was a Roy Orbison type of song, a very slow rocker, with a high vocal part, rather dreary, to be honest.”
“We sang it and George Martin said, ‘Can we change the tempo?’” McCartney recalled. “We said, ‘What’s that?’ He said, ‘Make it a bit faster. Let me try it.’ And he did. We thought, ‘Oh, that’s all right, yes.’ Actually, we were a bit embarrassed that he had found a better tempo than we had.”
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