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When the song came out John Lennon would have been 23. For both John and Paul, 17 would have violated the "half your age +7" rule
by autoexec 3y ago
When the song came out John Lennon would have been 23. For both John and Paul, 17 would have violated the "half your age +7" rule
- jzb 3y agoLennon was 22, McCartney was 21 when the song was released. (Feb. 1963 recorded, Mar. 1963 released on “Please Please Me”) But yeah, still not quite half plus 7. You could argue they were writing it for teens, though - the audience singing along would skew several years younger than the band. (Poll of the Beatles fan club placed the average fan between 13-17. And they took great pains to create the illusion that fans might just meet the Beatles and be “the one.”) It does sound wrong now, though. The lyrics, anyway. Music still holds up.