Every Beatles Album's Opening Track Ranked From Worst To Best
2. I Saw Her Standing There - Please Please Me
Just imagine being a teenager in early 1963. The charts were dominated by the likes of Frank Ifield and Shirley Bassey. Sure, there was Elvis, but there wasn't much British music that a young person could relate to.
And then this came along.
The first song on The Beatles' first album Please Please Me blew everything else away. It was fast-paced, it was energetic, it talked about meeting a girl in a club! This was basically sacrilege at the time!
In terms of a mission statement, I Saw Her Standing There summed up everything that The Beatles were about.
They wanted to blast the cobwebs off the dusty old music of the past and bring their own brand of skiffle-cum-rock and roll to the masses. It set listeners up for a whirlwind ride that the rest of Please Please Me more than delivered.
The most incredible part of it all? I've been over 60 years since this song came out and it still slaps. It would still get people up and moving today, which is something that Nut Rocker by B. Bumble and the Stingers would struggle to match.