With the Beatles is the second studio album by the Fab Four. It was released in the United Kingdom on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone, eight months after the band’s debut Please Please Me. Produced by George Martin, the album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and “Don’t Bother Me“, George […]
With The Beatles
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JOHN 1972: “This was one of his first biggies.” JOHN 1980: “‘All My Loving’ is Paul, I regret to say. Because it’s a damn fine piece of work. But I play a pretty mean guitar in back.” PAUL 1984: “Yeah, I wrote that one. It was the first song I […]
GEORGE 1980: “The first song that I wrote… as an exercise to see if I could write a song. I wrote it in a hotel in Bounemouth, England, where we were playing a summer season in 1963. I was sick in bed… maybe that’s why it turned out to be […]
About “Roll Over Beethoven” “Roll Over Beethoven” was a favorite of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison even before they had chosen “The Beatles” as their name, and they continued to play it live right into their American tours of 1964. Their version of “Roll Over Beethoven” was recorded […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me trying to do Smokey Robinson again.” About “All I’ve got to Do” It was one of three songs Lennon wrote solo for With The Beatles, with “It Won’t Be Long” and “Not a Second Time.” Lennon said that it was written specifically for the American market; the […]
JOHN 1980: “That’s me trying to do something. I don’t remember.” (laughs) PAUL 1984: “Influenced by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.” About “Not a Second Time” “Not a Second Time” is a song by John Lennon (credited to McCartney/Lennon) performed by The Beatles on their album With the Beatles. Lennon […]
About “Till There was You” The song was the only Broadway tune the Beatles ever recorded.“Till There Was You” was a minor hit in the UK for Peggy Lee in March 1961. Paul McCartney was introduced to her music by his older cousin, Bett Robbins, who would occasionally baby-sit the […]
About “Money (That’s What I Want)” “Money (That’s What I Want)” is a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed by Anna Records. The song was written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, and would become the first hit record for Gordy’s Motown flagship […]
About “Devil In Her Heart” “Devil in Her Heart” is a song originally recorded by The Donays in 1962, but The Beatles later covered it for their album With the Beatles in 1963. The track showcases the band’s ability to infuse their own style into covers, transforming the original into […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it, but mainly Paul. I helped him finish it.” JOHN 1980: “‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ was a kind of lick Paul had– ‘I wanna be your lover, baby. I wanna be your man.’ I think we finished it off for the Stones. We […]
JOHN 1980: “‘It Wont Be Long’ is mine. It was my attempt at writing another single. It never quite made it. That was the one where the guy in the ‘London Times’ wrote about the ‘Aeolian cadences of the chords’ which started the whole intellectual bit about the Beatles.” PAUL […]
JOHN 1972: “Both of us wrote it. This was a knock-off between Paul and me.” JOHN 1980: “‘Little Child’ was another effort of Paul and I to write a song for somebody else. It was probably Ringo.” PAUL circa-1994: “Certain songs were inspirational and you just followed that. ‘Little Child’ […]