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Please Please Me
The Beatles · 1963 · Track 1
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ÁlbumPlease Please Me
Año1963
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The story behind
When you hear the initial count, that 'one, two, three, four' that drives you, you're looking at one of the first creations by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The idea for *I Saw Her Standing There* came to McCartney's mind while returning from a concert in Southport. He was inspired by an old popular melody he had heard in Liverpool around 1960, giving it a modern twist. The first chords and structure were shaped at a friend's house in Liverpool, and shortly after, while visiting London with his girlfriend, who was seventeen at the time, McCartney began writing the first lines. By the end of 1962, the song was already complete, collaborating with Lennon at his Forthlin Road home, and they played it live at the Star-Club in Hamburg. Curiously, McCartney admitted to having borrowed the bass riff from Chuck Berry's *Talkin' About You*, demonstrating that a completely new idea isn't always needed for something to work perfectly.
This piece became the calling card of The Beatles on their first album for the UK, Please Please Me, released in March 1963, and it also paved the way in the United States with the album Introducing... The Beatles. In December 1963, Capitol Records included it as the B-side of the single *I Want to Hold Your Hand*. While the A-side dominated the Billboard charts for seven weeks starting in February 1964, *I Saw Her Standing There* made its way onto the Billboard Hot 100, staying there for eleven weeks and reaching number 14. It was recorded in February 1963 at EMI Studios in London, under the production of George Martin, and was released with a duration of just under three minutes. The energy it conveys, with its rock and roll foundation, made it a track that resonated strongly from the start.