Love Me Do
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Nov 6, 2026
Daryl EasleaHOST
It's a sort of working title for a mini guide, an A5 guide.
Daryl EasleaHOST
And it's the Beatles 62 to 70 looking at their singles from Love Me Do to Let It Be.
Daryl EasleaHOST
The British pressings, export pressings, repressings, and the EPs from that period as well.
Daryl EasleaHOST
And it's even got, and what I'm very excited about, a pull-out poster in the Spirit of the Beatles book.
Dick TaylorGUEST
You know, obviously, you know, you had the beard.
Dick TaylorGUEST
By this time, the Beatles had, you know, I remember first, funny enough, hearing Love Me Do first with Mick and Brian.
Dick TaylorGUEST
We were at a party, and we heard Love Me Do, and we said, well, this is intriguing.
Dick TaylorGUEST
It's got a harmonica on
David HepworthHOST
it, hasn't
Maureen CleaveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Warringo Starr is ugly but cute.
Obadiah JonesHOST
More than six months before Michael Brown wrote Love Me Do, the Beatles progressed.
Obadiah JonesHOST
Maureen printed the Beatles' unfiltered declarations in the Evening Standard.
Obadiah JonesHOST
Take, for example, John saying, It helps being intelligent, I suppose, though, mind you, I've met people in this business who aren't as thick as they look.
Alec BaldwinHOST
Wonderful insanity, by the way.
Alec BaldwinHOST
But, you know, in the beginning with, like, Love Me Do and all those things, there's something about what people need.
Alec BaldwinHOST
And at that time in the 70s, people really needed music.
Alec BaldwinHOST
to take them somewhere.
Tim HayGUEST
Yeah.
Tim HayGUEST
And even if it's not like put to music, I think just writing stuff down seems to do something to your sense of like, I don't know, there's a sense of ambiguity that you feel that you get rid of once it's down on paper.
Tim HayGUEST
Yeah.
Tim HayGUEST
It's a
Tim HayGUEST
um american four album came out where he just did covers of all of these otherwise famous songs by the nine inch nails and so on and so forth yeah and it's literally a him in the room singing these songs with that
Pat BlackerHOST
cover of her hurt yeah doesn't that break it yeah
Tim HayGUEST
so that's like and that just sums up the whole thesis of like yeah music doesn't have to be exclusively Liszt or Chopin or, you know, incredible orchestral stuff.
Tim HayGUEST
Although that's totally the, you know, a good standard to have.
Graham OlsonHOST
The song's release coincided with the release of the movie Stateside in August of 1964, and so A Hard Day's Night went straight to number one on the American charts, becoming the fifth Beatles record to do so that year.
Graham OlsonHOST
Yeah, Love Me Do spent a week atop Billboard in May of 64, but we've already covered that song.
Graham OlsonHOST
The Brits knew about that one well before we Americans did.
Graham OlsonHOST
What's curious about the single A Hard Day's Night is that the B side is different depending on what side of the pond you were on.
Tim FranksHOST
Fascher worked as a bouncer and barman in the German port city's red-light district when he helped open the legendary venue The Star Club in 1962.
Tim FranksHOST
And it was then that he persuaded the, as then, unknown musicians from Liverpool to take up a residency before they recorded their first single, Love Me Do, and returned to Britain.
Tim FranksHOST
Holly Tesler is a senior lecturer in music industries at the University of Liverpool, where she specialises in the Beatles.
Tim FranksHOST
What role did Fasher play in helping the band?
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For the Beatles, the clock started with their first single.
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The copyright in Love Me Do was secured in October 1962.
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56 years later would be October 2018.
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McCartney was 20 when Dad's single came out.
Fraser McCallumGUEST
Yeah.
Fraser McCallumGUEST
One of the great little accidents of history for me is that it's become quite well known, but I was always quite smug about telling people this, but the very first Beatles single, which is Love Me Do, and the first Bond film, Doctor No, come out in the same day, in October 1962.
Fraser McCallumGUEST
And they are, by some distance, the biggest cultural exports Britain has in the 1960s.
Fraser McCallumGUEST
I mean, there's not a bigger cultural export Britain has had than the Beatles since then.
Sammy PetersenHOST
I do realise that.
Sammy PetersenHOST
Their first single, Love Me Do, was released in October 1962.
Sammy PetersenHOST
Within a short period, the Beatles would move from Liverpool clubs to national fame, then international stardom.
Sammy PetersenHOST
Their success would become so immense that the ordinary language of celebrity could no longer adequately describe it.
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