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31 March 2008
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Recorded: 6 June, 26 November 1962
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 11 January 1963 (UK), 25 February 1963 (US)
John Lennon: vocals, rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney: backing vocals, bass
George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals
Ringo Starr: drums
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2.47am
24 March 2014
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This is such a beautiful song (imho). One of my favourite numbers in “Please Please Me “. Just the isolated vocals alone sound gorgeous:
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11.57am
14 December 2009
Offline I find it inexplicable how George Martin really felt that “Love Me Do ” was the best of the handful of originals they had to offer for that June audition, when this one seems like a much more substantial song to me. (Maybe he just really liked that harmonica?)
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1.42pm
24 March 2014
Offline Yeah, i think a lot about that lately. Maybe George Martin wanted to play safe with a nice simple melodic song but even so… i find Love Me Do really monotonous and unispiring compared with Ask Me Why …
anyway, it sounds good even with Pete Best drumming 
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11.32pm
14 June 2016
Offline Love this song, and the whole Please Please Me album is an awesome showcase of John’s vocals. He’s at his youngest and is full of energy and soul.
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Offline Von Bontee said
I find it inexplicable how George Martin really felt that “Love Me Do ” was the best of the handful of originals they had to offer for that June audition, when this one seems like a much more substantial song to me. (Maybe he just really liked that harmonica?)
‘LMD’ was the song needed to get them on the radio and out there, it stuck around the charts floating for a bit. It has a very simple quality to it admittedly and compared to a lot of their material in the coming months it does sound very basic. Listen back to charts of the time and you see how ‘LMD’ stood out from much of what was in the charts; it gave them an opened door which they then barged thru with ‘PPM ‘.
As for ‘AMW’, the Star Club performance is fabulously tight.
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2.40am
26 January 2017
Offline Hard to believe they’d found such confidence in their songwriting on this debut album. Aside from the legendary hits, Do You Want To Know A Secret and Ask Me Why sound like they could be Rodgers/Hammerstein tunes from a 40s Broadway Musical. Lyrically and Melodically they are an example of masters of their craft on top of their game before even entering their peak. The most impressive feat on the album is the constantly harmonic function of the G and D chords in P.S I Love You.
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