Please Please Me

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Written by: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Produced by: George Martin
Released: Feb. '64 on Vee-Jay
Charts: 13 weeks
Top spot: No. 3

"It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song," Lennon said of "Please Please Me." He originally penned a yearning ballad while listening to Orbison in a bedroom at his aunt's house, but Martin suggested it would sound better sped up. Said Lennon, "By the time the session came around, we were so happy with the result, we couldn't get it recorded fast enough."

Appears on: Please Please Me (Capitol)

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