

"And I Love Her" was not just a classic song penned by McCartney, it is one of the most beautiful songs to ever be composed. It was released on March 16, 1964, and topped the charts for five weeks during the opening stage of what became known worldwide as "Beatlemania." The song was not just written by McCartney, but it is also him that you hear singing the lead vocal on it, as well. "Can't Buy Me Love" is an uptempo, jangly number that also appeared in the Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, which was shown on screens for highly enthusiastic fans across the world during the summer of 1964. "Can't Buy Me Love" was the only Beatles hit song performed in the English language not to be recorded in London. It only took four takes for the Fab Four to nail this song in the studio during the process of recording it. 29, 1964, at Pathe Marconi Studios, prior to being completed on Feb. The song was also recorded in Paris on Jan. 9, 1964, McCartney wrote this classic hit song on an upright piano while the group was staying in the five-star George V hotel in Paris, France. Just before the Beatles made their historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on the evening of Feb. In fact, it may be the only song that each of the former Beatles would perform during their solo careers in their concert performances. McCartney has included the song on a number of his solo albums and has performed it live on stage with other artists. "I Saw Her Standing There" is also one of the first from the Beatles to feature McCartney - not John Lennon - as the lead vocalist. The song was recorded during the grueling sessions for the first great Beatles album, Please Please Me, when 10 of the album's 14 songs were cut in a single day at EMI Recording Studios (now Abbey Road) on Feb. At the time, McCartney was dating a 17-year-old young lady by the name of Celia Mortimer who may well have served as the inspiration for the song.

He wrote the song in 1962 while driving home from a Beatles concert and worked out its composition at the home of Rory Storm, whose group included future Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

Though it was not the first song written by McCartney as a member of the Beatles, "I Saw Her Standing There" was one of the first classic hits to be primarily authored and composed by him.
