The Fab Four’s first LP release ( Please Please Me, Parlophone, February 1963) wasn’t very much like the records the band made later. George’s ‘Don’t Bother Me’ began his run as a Beatles songwriter George Harrison of the Beatles, London, 1963 | UPI And he started filling up that songbook on the Beatles’ second LP.
George, on the other hand, would become a prolific (and highly accomplished) songwriter by the time the band parted ways in 1970. By the end of the Fab Four’s run, he’d only have two songwriting credits on his own.
As time passed, that wouldn’t change much for Ringo. However, on the songwriting front, the originals were all credited to Lennon/McCartney. In the group’s spirited covers of “Boys” ( Ringo Starr) and “Chains” ( George Harrison), The Beatles showed anyone in the band could carry a lead vocal - and do so convincingly. The work of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who penned “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Please Please Me,” and other gems, had no trouble standing beside tracks by Carole King and Burt Bacharach.īut that wasn’t the only revelation. When The Beatles released their debut album, it marked the arrival of a formidable new songwriting team.
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