Paul McCartney: You get to the bit where you think, if we're going
to write great philosophy it isn't worth it. "Love Me Do" was our
greatest philosophical song. "Love me do/you know I love you/I'll
always be true/So love me do/Please love me, do." For it to be
simple, and true, means that it's incredibly simple.
Paul McCartney: 'Love Me Do' was us trying to do the blues. It came out whiter because it always does. We're white and we were just young Liverpool musicians. We didn't have any finesse to be able to actually sound black. But 'Love Me Do' was probably the first bluesy thing we tried to do.
John Lennon (in 1972) - "Paul wrote the main structure of this when he was sixteen, or even earlier. I think I had something to do with the middle."
John Lennon (in 1980) - "'Love Me Do' is Paul's song. He had the song around in Hamburg even, way, way before we were songwriters."
