A Song Paul McCartney Wrote for Peter Asher Knocked The Beatles' 'Can't Buy Me Love' off the Charts
Paul McCartney wrote a song for Peter Asher, and it did so well that it knocked The Beatles‘ “Can’t Buy Me Love” off the charts. Asher got to know Paul well when he started dating his sister, Jane, in the early 1960s. Thanks to Paul and his song, Asher’s career skyrocketed. Paul McCartney and Peter Asher in suits in 1969.
In The Beatles’ early career, their manager, Brian Epstein, arranged for them to move into a London apartment. However, Paul thought it was miserable.
In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that his then-girlfriend Jane Asher and her family must’ve invited him to live in their fancy home in Marylebone after hearing him complain that the apartment “had no soul.” Paul wrote, “This gesture was in the long tradition of giving a garret room to a starving artist.”
Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com
