When The Beatles were initially signed to a label, they were put under a lot of pressure to produce great music. There was a demand for the Fab Four, so their label thought it would be best to capitalise on that demand by having them release a lot of music that fans would buy.

We know now that The Beatles are one of the biggest and most influential bands of all time, but no one knew that was necessarily going to be the case at the time, so it made sense to get as much music out of the band as they could.

It’s easy to see why their label was so keen on having the band release a lot of music. Something instilled in The Beatles’ sound made them completely infectious. It seemed that anybody who listened, be it in the UK, the US or anywhere else in the world, couldn’t get enough of them.

“’I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ came on the radio in 1964,” Bruce Springsteen said, recalling the first time he heard the Beatles, “That was going to change my life because I was going to successfully pick the guitar up and learn how to play […] I ran to the bowling alley, ran down a long neon-lit aisle, down the bowling alley into the bowling alley. Ran to the phone booth, got in the phone booth and immediately called my girl and asked, ‘Have you heard this band called The Beatles?’ After that, it was nothing but rock ‘n’ roll and guitars.”

Many people had similar experiences to Springsteen, and with the band in high demand, the world was ready to listen to their favourite new rock band. As a result of their high work rate, some of the songs that The Beatles ended up putting out didn’t get the same reception. John Lennon was particularly harsh when it came to songwriting. It wasn’t enough for a tune to be catchy; he wanted it to resonate with the listener on a much deeper level.

One song that he always had a problem with was ‘The Boy’. It was released prior to Beatlemania, and before the band had a famous sound worldwide, it was trying different things with its music. Lennon wrote ‘The Boy’ but was frustrated with it, so later on in the band’s discography, he tried to rewrite it to fit his style even more.

‘Yes It Is’ was released as a B-side in 1965. Lennon admitted, “That’s me trying to rewrite ‘The Boy’, but it didn’t work.” It appears the song was just never supposed to work with Lennon; however, many people like the track, including his bandmate Paul McCartney, who revealed: “I was there writing it with John, but it was his inspiration that I helped him finish off. ‘Yes It Is’ is a very fine song of John’s, a ballad, unusual for John. He wrote some beautiful ballads but I’m known generally as the balladeer.”