no sad tomorrow
10 beatles recording that cut through the screams of 1963. by john Harris
i saw her standing there
(from Please Please Me, released March 22)
If any song starts the revolution it’s this one, something captured by Paul’s edited-in count-in – “One two three
fah!”
– and everything that happens afterwards. In Liverpool and Hamburg, live versions had stretched for as long as 10 minutes. Can you imagine?
there’s a place
(from Please Please Me, released March 22)
Mostly written by Lennon under the influence of Motown – and notable for a depth that was virtually unprecedented back then. The place he goes when “I feel low” is “my mind” – alyrical glance ahead to what really bloomed circa ’65-66.