Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles.

Everybody thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know? My name's Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Cotcroft.

I were live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

On the 11th of April, 1963, the Beatles released from Me to You, their third single, but it was a first in other regards.

Their first standalone single, the first single after their Please Please Me album had come out,

the first single released to a truly expectant audience, and, depending on what charts you're

looking at, their first number one.

For many bands, it would be a pinnacle, a highlight, but for the Beatles, maybe you could say

it's taken on a backseat, in particular, and compared to its immediate success, she loves you and I want to hold

your hand. That's something, that's a right that we need to wrong or a wrong that we need to

write, isn't it, Stephen? It's a wrong that we need to write, I think, is what you're saying. Start as we mean to continue. No, you're absolutely correct.

I mean, this is a song that I think just, it's not on a UK album.

It has an odd history in the US and it just gets overlooked.

But I think it's pivotal in so many ways.

It is pivotal.

And, you know, just to remind ourselves, the chronology of singles is, love me do is the debut.

Please Please Please Me is the one that captures the most success and propels the Beatles to their first level of fame.

That rolls into the Please Please Me Album.

And then the rest of the singles for 63 are from me to you,

she loves you, and I want to hold your hand at the end of the year. And so those four 63 singles,

yeah, we do feel that from me to you doesn't get a fair crack of the whip because it's a,

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