Paul McCartney Thinks It's Interesting Singing 'I Saw Her Standing There' Because It Has a ...

Paul McCartney thinks it’s interesting singing The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There” because it has a “naïveté” that you “can’t invent.” The singer-songwriter recognizes that he was a completely different person when he wrote the song.

In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he’d include The Beates’ “I Saw Her Standing There” in the group of songs he considers his best work. He remembers playing the song for John Lennon for the first time. They smoked tea in Paul’s father’s pipe.

Despite his love for the tune, Paul explained that it had tough beginnings. There was an issue with one of the lyrics. Paul wrote, “I said, ‘She was just seventeen. She’d never been a beauty queen.’ And John said, ‘I’m not sure about that.’ So our main task was to get rid of the beauty queen. We struggled with it, but then it came.”

In The Lyrics, Paul wrote that singing “I Saw Her Standing There” now-and this happens to him with all The Beatles songs he sings, particularly from the early days-he realizes he’s “reviewing the work of an eighteen-to-twenty-year-old boy.”

Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com

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