John Lennon Instagram – FROM ME TO YOU. 🔴 The night Paul and I wrote ‘From Me To You’, we were on the Helen Shapiro tour, on the coach, travelling from York to Shrewsbury (28 Feb 1963). We weren’t taking ourselves seriously – just fooling around on the guitar – when we began to get a good melody line, and we really started to work at it. Before that journey was over, we’d completed the lyric, everything. I think the first line was mine and we took it from there. What puzzled us was why we’d thought of a name like ‘From Me To You’. It had me thinking when I picked up the NME to see how we were doing in the charts. Then I realised – we’d got the inspiration from reading a copy on the coach. Paul and I had been talking about one of the letters in the ‘From You To Us’ column. We were looking to write the next single after ‘She Loves You.’ It was getting pretty hard to top each single. We’d already written ‘Thank You Girl’ as the follow-up to ‘Please Please Me’. This new number was to be the B-side. We were so pleased with it, we knew we just had to make it the A-side. It was far bluesier than that when we wrote it. You know, the notes, you could rearrange it pretty funky. We nearly didn’t do it because it was too bluesy. But by the time we’d finished it and George Martin had scored it with harmonica it was all right. I’d played a lot of harmonica, mouth organ, really, it was. And so we did those numbers and so we started using it on ‘Love Me Do’. We used to work out arrangements and we just used it and then we stuck it on ‘Please Please Me’ and then we stuck it on ‘From Me To You’. I remember it was Paul’s idea, or was that ‘From Me to You’ where instead of singing ‘I Love You’ that we’d have a third party passing a message on to someone else. And that kind of little detail is apparent in his work, where he will write a story. I’m more inclined to just write about myself. The ‘Ooh!’ was taken from the Isley Brothers ‘Twist and Shout’ which we stuck in everything, ‘From Me to You’, ‘She Loves You’, they all had that ‘Ooh!’. That was a combination written song, it was not a song that was written individually. It was created together, singing into each other’s notes.