PS I love you

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PS I love you
The Beatles
publication 5th October 1962
length 2 min 4 s
Genre (s) Merseybeat
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Please Please Me

PS I Love You ( English ' PS I love you') is the title of a song by the British rock band The Beatles . It was released as the B-side of the group's first single on October 5, 1962 in the UK , with Love Me Do on the A-side . Both titles were composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon .

Origin and admission

PS I Love You is one of the earliest compositions by the Lennon / McCartney writing team , with Paul McCartney being the lead author of the piece. McCartney compared the piece with the later composition Paperback Writer , where he took up the scheme of using a kind of letter as text again. McCartney wrote the piece in 1961 during the Beatles' second stay in Hamburg .

The recordings for the piece took place on September 11, 1962 in London's Abbey Road Studios . It took the group ten takes to complete the recording, to the satisfaction of producer Ron Richards, who represented George Martin on the mixer that day. The Beatles played in their usual formation: with John Lennon on rhythm guitar , Paul McCartney on electric bass , George Harrison on lead guitar . However, the studio musician Andy White took over the drums . White had been hired by George Martin for this recording session because he found Pete Best too weak at the Beatles' first audition. Ringo Starr played maracas during the recordings .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Miles: Paul McCartney. Many years from now . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1999, p. 59.
  2. ^ Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head . Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007, p. 61.
  3. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . London: Hamlyn, 2004, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Philipp Norman: Shout! , 2003, p. 170.