"When I heard it originally, it was a Roy Orbison type of song, a very slow rocker, with a high vocal part, rather dreary to be honest. They came back with a speed-ed up version and I said, 'Ok let's give it a whirl,' and at the end of that session I was able to say to them, 'You've got your first Number One, Great.'" George Martin

Last night I said these words to my girl
I know you'll never even try girl

(Bridge)
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Please please me
Oh yeah, like I please you

You don't need me to show the way love
Why do I always have to say love

(Bridge)
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Please please me
Oh yeah, like I please you

I don't want to sound complaining
But you know there's always rain
In my heart...In my heart
I do all the pleasing with you
It's so hard to reason with you
Oh yeah, why do you make me blue
Last night I said these words to my girl
I know you'll never even try girl

(Bridge)
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Please please me
Oh yeah, like I please you
Oh yeah, like I please you
Oh yeah, like I please you


"We'd had a Top Thirty entry with 'Love Me Do' and we really thought we were on top of the world. Then came 'Please Please Me'-and wham! We tried to make it as simple as possible. Some of the stuff we've written in the past has been a bit way-out, but we aimed this one right at the hit parade(JL1963). It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song. I remember the day I wrote it. I remember the pink eiderdown over the bed, sitting in one of the bedrooms in my house on Menlove Avenue, my auntie's place (JL1980)."

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