{"id":122,"date":"2024-12-10T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/?p=122"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","slug":"187-p-s-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/187-p-s-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"187: P.S. I Love You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-beatles-card-song-info\"><div class=\"beatles-card-content\"><div class=\"wiki-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/WikipediaLogo.svg\" alt=\"Wikipedia\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>Wikipedia<\/span><\/div><div class=\"wiki-text\"><div class=\"wiki-excerpt\">&quot;P.S. I Love You&quot; is a song recorded by English rock band the Beatles in 1962. It was composed principally by Paul McCartney[1] (credited to Lennon\u2013McCartney), and produced by Ron Richards. The song was released in the UK on 5 October 1962 as the B-s&#8230;<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P.S._I_Love_You_(Beatles_song)\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Wikipedia \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is perhaps another aberration in my ranking as it is a very nice song and all the more impressive since it is one of McCartney&#8217;s first original contributions to the Beatles recordings, appearing as the B-side to Love Me Do. Apparently it could not be considered as a potential A-side since it shares its title with an earlier song. I guess that makes explains what would otherwise have been a puzzling decision, because in my view P.S. I Love You is, unambiguously, the better song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. I Love You strikes me as very original musically &#8211; especially the verse. It does not use one of the standard rock, blues or pop chord progressions (in fact it includes a fancy modulation), and it uses harmony vocals in a distinctive way, apply them only to alternate phrases in the verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCartney is pretty modest about the song, describing the letter theme as one of the &#8220;easier&#8221; themes to &#8220;hang a song on&#8221;. Over and over again, I find both Lennon and McCartney tend to downplay their originality, but when they think something is derivative it tends to be at quite a conceptual level. Yes, you can &#8220;easily&#8221; write a song about a letter. But it is not easy to write one that already sounds like an old standard or a stone-cold classic when you are 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps another aberration in my ranking as it is a very nice song and all the more impressive since it is one of McCartney&#8217;s first original contributions to the Beatles recordings, appearing as the B-side to Love Me Do. Apparently it could not be considered as a potential A-side since it shares its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,21,6],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-a-day","tag-b-side","tag-please-please-me","tag-single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}