As we come to the end of this thread, if you wish to hear most of these songs in a collection there is an album – The Songs That Lennon and McCartney Gave Away. It was released in 1971 as a compilation excluding Penina by Jotte Herre and adding I Am The Greatest by Ringo on the reissue […]
Staying on Peter And Gordon for Paul McCartney’s experiment, it seems that with the massive success of The Beatles he was beginning to wonder if he was having hits outside The Beatles just because he was in The Beatles. So he came up with a pseudonym and Bernard Webb was born. This from Wikipedia: Under the Lennon–McCartney moniker, […]
The debut single by Peter And Gordon was written by Paul McCartney when he was a wee lad and not ever recorded by The Beatles. Apparently the first line “Please lock me away” was a source of great mirth for the band. McCartney dated Peter’s sister Jane Asher for 5 years in the early sixties […]