We are conscientious about our work and we don't like to rush things. We were getting very tired, though, and we just couldn't seem to get it right. Our recording manager, George Martin, thought our arrangement was fussy, so we tried to make it simpler. We'd been going over it a few times and when we came to the question of the flipside, we intended using 'Please Please Me'. We changed our minds only because we were so tired the night we did 'Love Me Do'. We almost abandoned it as the B-side of 'Love Me Do'. John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, p.143, 1980 I was always intrigued by the double use of the word 'please.' So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison. And also I was always intrigued by the words of 'Please Lend Your Ears To My Pleas,' a Bing Crosby song. I remember the day and the pink eyelet on the bed and I heard Roy Orbison doing “Only The Lonely” or something. It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it? I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie's place.
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