The Making of "Love Me Do" | The Please Please Me Sessions

Everything you need to know about The Beatles' "Love Me Do." |

If Besame Mucho failed to impress the Parlophone crew, the next track the Beatles recorded prompted engineer Norman Smith to send tape-operator Chris Neal to fetch George Martin. The reason is clear from the audition tape, issued on Anthology 1. Here, suddenly, was something utterly fresh and original the Beatles had written. Intrigued, George Martin supervised a take which caught the cold Northern breeze of a very unusual sound.

"Love Me Do" was the first song recorded and released by the Beatles, not including any recordings made with Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers.

In his book, Paul describes the 1958 writing session for the song: "'Love Me Do' was written in one of our sessions at 20 Forthlin Road; completely co-written. It might have been my original idea but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea... We loved doing it, it was a very interesting thing to try and learn to do, to become songwriters. I think why we eventually got so strong was we wrote so much through our formative period."

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