Please Please Me / Ask Me Why
by The Beatles
- Type: Single
- Released: 11 January 1963
- Label: Parlophone
- Country: United Kingdom
- Community rating: 4.04/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The group's first number-one single in the UK, fundamentally reshaping the energy of British pop music. Originally conceived as a slow, Roy Orbison-style ballad, producer George Martin insisted on an accelerated tempo, resulting in the frantic, harmonica-driven explosion that ignited Beatlemania.
Genres
Descriptors: vocal-group, melodic
Tracklist
Credits
- The Beatles - primary artist
- Lennon-McCartney - written-by