Several Beatles’ songs reached No. 1 during their career. Fans loved many of their tunes, but sometimes the band members didn’t. John Lennon hated several Fab Four songs, even some that he wrote. The Beatles’ worked hard on one unreleased song they didn’t like and it still hit No. 1 — for someone else.
(l-r) George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon | Harry Hammond/V&a Images/Getty Images The Beatles were forced to record a song they never released
They eventually changed everything about pop music, but The Beatles didn’t begin on top of the mountain. They were like every other band when they started out — they had to take marching orders.
Fledgling songwriters John and Paul McCartney had a few original tunes when they first recorded with George Martin in late 1962. Still, the producer forced them to work on an outside song. Since they had little power...
(l-r) George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon | Harry Hammond/V&a Images/Getty Images The Beatles were forced to record a song they never released
They eventually changed everything about pop music, but The Beatles didn’t begin on top of the mountain. They were like every other band when they started out — they had to take marching orders.
Fledgling songwriters John and Paul McCartney had a few original tunes when they first recorded with George Martin in late 1962. Still, the producer forced them to work on an outside song. Since they had little power...
- 4/4/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the early days of The Beatles, the band was looking to release hit singles that would put them on the map. “Please Please Me” was their second hit, proving that the fab four were not a one-hit-wonder. The song was a risky move for The Beatles as they turned down another song which ended up being a hit for a different act.
The Beatles needed another hit song after ‘Love Me Do’ The Beatles | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
“Love Me Do” was The Beatles’ debut single in the U.K. While it was a hit, it only reached No. 17 in the U.K. in 1962. It later became a No. 1 hit in the U.S., but not until 1964. In an interview with Melody Maker, The Beatles’ long-time producer George Martin said he knew the band needed another hit single, but they didn’t have anything else to work with.
The Beatles needed another hit song after ‘Love Me Do’ The Beatles | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
“Love Me Do” was The Beatles’ debut single in the U.K. While it was a hit, it only reached No. 17 in the U.K. in 1962. It later became a No. 1 hit in the U.S., but not until 1964. In an interview with Melody Maker, The Beatles’ long-time producer George Martin said he knew the band needed another hit single, but they didn’t have anything else to work with.
- 3/17/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the earliest days of The Beatles, the fact that John Lennon and Paul McCartney began composing their own material as opposed to using songs provided by other songwriters was highly unusual. In fact, at the time — the early 1960s — it simply wasn't done. Undoubtedly in the beginning it was probably seen more as an oddity rather than an indication of the duo ultimately being credited as one of the great songwriting teams of all time. "It wasn't the norm," Bill Harry, editor of Liverpool's Mersey Beat, the first and most recognized newspaper devoted to the local music scene, and lifelong friend of The Beatles, explains in an exclusive interview. "In America you have the Brill Building and things like that, with professional songwriters like Carole King and different people. That was the situation. The songwriters wrote the songs and the artists were given songs by the songwriters. It...
- 5/24/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Closer Weekly
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