"Misery" | |
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Single by the Beatles | |
from the album Please Please Me | |
B-side | "Ask Me Why" |
Released | 22 March 1963 |
Recorded | 11 and 20 February 1963 |
Studio | EMI, London |
Genre | Merseybeat[1] |
Length | 1:47 |
Label | Parlophone |
Songwriter(s) | McCartney-Lennon |
Producer(s) | George Martin |
"Misery" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1963 debut album Please Please Me. It was co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. According to Lennon, "It was kind of a John song more than a Paul song, but it was written together."[2] McCartney was to say: "I don't think either one of us dominated on that one, it was just a hacking job."[3]
A 1963 single by Kenny Lynch made "Misery" the first Beatles' song to be covered by another artist.[4]
This is Merseybeat at its most ingratiating