The Beatles' first single. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote this in 1958, when John was 17 and Paul was 16.

Lennon said: "Paul wrote the main structure of this when he was 16, or even earlier. I think I had something to do with the middle... 'Love Me Do' is Paul's song. He wrote it when he was a teenager. Let me think. I might have helped on the middle eight, but I couldn't swear to it. I do know he had the song around, in Hamburg, even, way, way before we were songwriters".

McCartney said: "Love Me Do was completely co-written. It might have been my original idea but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea. We loved doing it, it was a very interesting thing to try and learn to do, to become songwriters. I think why we eventually got so strong was we wrote so much through our formative period".