![]() "I wrote this on my own," McCartney stated, "I can actually see Margaret Asher's upstairs drawing room. "This gesture was in the long tradition of giving a garret room to a starving artist," Paul relates in his book "The Lyrics," "so I had a little room up at the top, next to Jane's brother Peter's room." Paul frequently met with John in the Asher home to write songs, although this one was apparently written by McCartney alone, at least initially. Paul had moved in with the Ashers in November of 1963 upon Jane's parents request. "And I Love Her" was written in the basement music room at Jane Asher's parents home at 57 Wimpole St. "I remember we were all surprised by her red hair, because we'd only ever seen her in black and white before," Paul explains in his 2021 book "The Lyrics." All four Beatles tried to impress this young actress who they recognized from “Juke Box Jury,” but she ended up with Paul in the end. ” When the Radio Times article was released on May 2nd, 1963, it featured a posed picture of Jane Asher screaming in excitement for The Beatles, her quote being, "Now, these I could scream for." She met the group for an interview backstage after the performance and then ended up with them at the Royal Court Hotel in Chelsea afterward. Jane was very popular in Britain at the time due to her appearance in many plays, films and television appearances, such as being a regular on the pop music TV show “ Juke Box Jury. The BBC magazine “ Radio Times ” sent 17 year old Jane Asher as their “best-known teenage girl” to the Beatles' April 18th, 1963 performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall which was being recorded for BBC radio. ![]() The first of such songs was “And I Love Her,” which was written about ten months after they had met. While history has shown this characterization to be false, evidenced numerous times throughout The Beatles' career (Paul's " Helter Skelter" being the most obvious example), the fact still remains that McCartney was a true master of the 'ballad'.Īlthough the romantic relationship between McCartney and actress Jane Asher didn’t end up in nuptials as the rumor mill would have had us believe throughout the sixties, their relationship did spawn a good many songs in the Lennon / McCartney catalog. Since the movie " A Hard Day's Night" helped to individualize the characteristics of each Beatle in everyone's mind ("the cute one," "the witty one," "the quiet one" etc.), the fans were quick to judge Paul as the "melodic, soft one" of the group. This soft, acoustic sentimental love song stuck out like a sore thumb and made everyone take notice of what this long-haired British rock group was capable of. When he did faction off to write by himself, the songs would usually be rockers, such as " I Saw Her Standing There" and " Can't Buy Me Love." His reputation as a 'balladeer' began with the inclusion of "And I Love Her" on the movie soundtrack album. ![]() One can easily point to John's " In My Life" or George's " Something" as examples otherwise, but Paul is definitely the winner in the 'ballads' sweepstakes.īefore the soundtrack to " A Hard Day's Night" burst on the scene, Paul's songwriting was mostly confied to writing "eyeball to eyeball" (as Lennon would call it) with John in collaborative efforts. After all, " Michelle," " Here, There And Everywhere," "The Long And Winding Road," " I'll Follow The Sun," " I Will" and the monumental hit " Yesterday" were all written primarily, if not totally, by Paul McCartney. The "surface truth" was that Paul primarily wrote the ballads for The Beatles. There was some surface truth to that." This quote from McCartney emphasizes the perception that most Beatles fans hold even to this day. "It's funny, the myth developed that I was the melodic, soft one and John was the hard, acerbic one. ![]()
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