Paul McCartney Admitted He 'Didn't Have Such a Hand' in Writing 'Please Please Me'
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote many of The Beatles' songs together. McCartney shared that he had little to do with 1 early hit.
When The Beatles released “Please Please Me” in early 1963, both Paul McCartney and John Lennon received writing credit. The pair wanted to be the next Rodgers and Hammerstein, and they established the precedent of earning joint credit for their songs. According to McCartney, though, 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.
After achieving success with “Love Me Do,” The Beatles exploded with the release of “Please Please Me.” It was a song McCartney and Lennon worked on together, but McCartney admitted that it was more of Lennon’s song than his.
“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 The Beatles Anthology. “‘Please Please Me’ was more John than me; I didn’t have such a hand in it.”
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