There is still something breathlessly exciting about the song’s call-and-response of “come on, come on”: it sounds like it is willing a new pop landscape into being. Please Please Me (1963)įar more dynamic and electrifying than its predecessor Love Me Do, the Everly Brothers-inspired Please Please Me saw the Beatles harness the raucous power of their live performances in the studio. While McCartney’s song certainly doesn’t have the venomous energy or experimental edge of Lennon’s, it has got a power of its own as a masterclass in supremely catchy songwriting, it works perfectly. Lennon was reportedly furious that I Am the Walrus was demoted to the B-side of Hello, Goodbye. McCartney’s Fats Domino homage – later recorded by Domino himself – fitted cheerily with the shift, although the fuzzed-out guitars of George Harrison and Lennon suggested something slightly more tumultuous, in keeping with the increasingly troubled mood of 1968. Pop’s post-psychedelic mood was set by the earthiness of the Band’s hugely influential debut Music from Big Pink. Photograph: Sharok Hatami/Rex/Shutterstock 16. McCartney, Lennon and Harrison in concert in 1963. Less dramatic and combustible than She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can’t Buy Me Love was key to establishing the Beatles’ cross-generational appeal: on the one hand it had a raw energy that recalled skiffle, on the other, its rhythm vaguely suggested swing, provoking a number of parent-friendly jazz covers, not least by Ella Fitzgerald. That they broke their rule for Revolver’s lovable but slight children’s song Yellow Submarine – rather than Taxman, Here There and Everywhere or Eleanor Rigby, which was relegated to the B-side – seems faintly mind-boggling. In the UK, at least, the Beatles tended not to issue singles from albums. But does a hint of Lennon sarcasm slip through the net in the way he delivers the words “it’s easy”? 18.
There is a sense in which All You Need Is Love is less interesting as a song than as an artefact: the Summer of Love zenith of the hippy dream captured, just before it curdled into disillusionment. Photograph: David Magnus/Rex/Shutterstock 19. Psychedelic explorers: the Beatles at the recording of the All You Need Is Love film in June 1967.
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