{"id":1193634,"date":"2026-09-08T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193634\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:12:21","slug":"the-1963-beatles-song-paul-mccartney-could-play-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193634\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1963 Beatles song Paul McCartney could play forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ringo-Starr-John-Lennon-Paul-McCartney-George-Harrison-1965-MBE-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ringo Starr - John Lennon - Paul McCartney - George Harrison - 1965 - MBE - The Beatles\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Far Out \/ Alamy<\/p>\n<p> Tue 8 September 2026 18:00, UK <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/the-beatles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">The Beatles<\/a> were constantly changing up their style of music, and as such, picking a favourite album of theirs can be difficult. <\/p>\n<p>If you want something concept-heavy, then you can look towards Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band. If you\u2019re after some of their more complex and mind-bending music, then you should listen to Revolver. If you want an album where the tone of each individual can be heard clearly, then give Abbey Road or The White Album a spin. They all provide something different, and it\u2019s that versatility that makes the band so timeless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, despite these constant changes in style and sound, there is no escaping the fact that The Beatles first won the hearts of millions by writing catchy pop tunes that everybody could dance to and enjoy themselves. In the early 1960s, when they first started seeing glimpses of chart success and before they had <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-beatles-broke-us-i-want-to-hold-your-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">officially made the jump over to the States<\/a>, a lot of their songs consisted mainly of the band belting out a few fun-sounding harmonies and letting the people dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the most complex or layered music out there, but it was still absolutely necessary. The timing of The Beatles making this sort of music couldn\u2019t have been more perfect. The UK was still in a tricky situation following World War II, as the economy continued on a downward slope and the future looked bleak. Then you had these four lads from Liverpool come along, belting out sweet-sounding harmonies and essentially just allowing the world to have fun with music again. <\/p>\n<p>While the sounds of Black Sabbath and The Beatles might be far removed from one another, there is a connection. To this day, Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s description of the band and the impact they had not only on him, but the rest of the world, rings true. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way I can describe it is like this,\u201d he said, \u201c\u2018Imagine you go to bed today and the world is black and white, and then you wake up, and everything\u2019s in colour\u2019. That\u2019s what it was like! <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-beatles-song-ozzy-osbourne-phenomenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">That\u2019s the profound effect it had on me<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of the jovial nature of the band in the early \u201860s, a lot of their songs were incredibly fun to play. <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/german-gangsters-most-important-audience-the-beatles-ever-played\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">They had done residencies in Hamburg<\/a>, which consisted of playing live and getting people dancing, and they were also frequently treading the boards at the now-famous Cavern Club in Liverpool. They liked having fun with their sets, and a lot of the songs they were wheeling out were tracks that the band simply never got tired of playing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the best examples of this came in the form of 1963\u2019s \u2018This Boy\u2019, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, where they wanted to create <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/100-greatest-motown-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">the same three-part harmonies that you heard in a lot of Smokey Robinson tracks<\/a>. They took some sections from \u2018To Know Her Is to Love Her\u2019 and managed to intertwine them with a wonderful and layered melody. The result was a track that can still get toes tapping to this day, and that McCartney simply never got tired of singing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too,\u201d he gushed, \u201cWe\u2019d learned that from: [sings] \u2018To know know know her is to love love love her\u2026\u2019 We learned that in my dad\u2019s house in Liverpool\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"\"> ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/far-out-magazine\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a>  The Far Out Beatles Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest stories about The Beatles from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Far Out \/ Alamy Tue 8 September 2026 18:00, UK The Beatles were constantly changing up their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[40416,286409,35618,66422,77,26608,8345,269,11693,176791,20686,4162,16,15],"class_list":["post-1193634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1960s","tag-286409","tag-british-rock","tag-classic-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-george-harrison","tag-john-lennon","tag-music","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-pop-rock","tag-ringo-starr","tag-the-beatles","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117236777562989340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}