McCartney Times

Anyone who tuned in to the first few seconds of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back were greeted with a charmingly lo-fi doo-wop song. It perfectly fit the black and white setting of Liverpool before the band’s major success, but it wasn’t entirely clear why this song in particular was being used. It didn’t really sound like The Beatles, apart from a high harmony that was reminiscent of Paul McCartney’s voice.

As it turns out, the song in question is called ‘In Spite of All the Danger’, and it is in fact not a Beatles song: it’s a song by the proto-Beatles act The Quarrymen. In 1958, a group of young musicians including John ‘Duff’ Lowe on piano and Colin Hanton on drums, plus teenagers John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, ducked into Phillips Sound Recording Service in Kensington to make their first semi-professional recordings.

Phillips Sound was really a home studio, and the resulting sound is in such low fidelity that it could be attributed to 1948 rather than 1958. The Quarrymen cut two songs that day: a cover of Buddy Holly’s ‘That’ll Be The Day’ and ‘In Spite of All The Danger’, a band original. The latter song was most notable for being the only song ever credited to McCartney-Harrison.

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