Beatles' John Lennon says band 'almost abandoned' song that changed everything

Before they hit the recording studio, The Beatles had already made a name for themselves rocking out in clubs across Liverpool and Hamburg.    Their first single, the McCartney-Lennon classic Love Me Do, dropped in the UK on October 5, 1962, but only managed a peak at number 17. Nevertheless, Paul McCartney sensed something big, though, reminiscing: "In Hamburg, we clicked. At the Cavern, we clicked.

"But if you want to know when we 'knew' we'd arrived, it was getting in the charts with Love Me Do. That was the one. It gave us somewhere to go." The band tossed around ideas for their second single with tension brewing between the band and their producer, George Martin, about whether to cover Mitch Murray's How Do You Do It? or stick to their self-penned tunes.

McCartney was firm, saying: "It was symptomatic of our group that we turned down How Do You Do It? with Ringo Starr chiming in with equal conviction, commenting: "I remember us all being ready to stand up for the principle of, we have written these songs and we want to do them.'"

Opting for originality, the band went on to record Please Please Me. The track, penned by Lennon at his aunt Mimi's place on Menlove Avenue, was initially set to be the B-side for Love Me Do.

John reminisced, "We almost abandoned it as the b-side of Love Me Do. We changed our minds only because we were so tired the night we did Love Me Do."

Source: themirror.com/Dan Haygarth

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