"And I Love Her"

Song: “And I Love Her”

Album: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Written primarily by McCartney and released as an A-side (B-sided by “If I fell”) in July 1964.  The song is also the fifth track on the Beatles’ third album, A Hard Day’s Night, which was released the same summer. 

Paul claimed credit for the middle eight (indicating John might have helped), but others, including Lennon himself, gave John more credit, indicating that he wrote the majority of it during the recording session for the song. Whatever the case, Lennon was impressed with the song, saying it was McCartney’s “first ‘Yesterday’.”

The Beatles performed the song live outside of Abbey Road Studios on July 14, 1964, and it was broadcast on the BBC’s Top Gear radio program two days later. If there’s video of that, I couldn’t find it. The clip below is from the film Hard Day’s Night.