Step Inside Love

Album: Sher-Oo! (1968)
Charted: 8
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the Beatles song that got away. Although like all their group efforts it was credited to both John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "Step Inside Love" is tangibly a McCartney composition. He wrote it for Cilla Black when in her rise to fame his fellow Liverpudlian was given her own TV show, which was first aired on January 30, 1968 and run until 1976.

    Running to 2 minutes 22 seconds, the theme song was released March 8, 1968 on the Beatles Parlophone label, produced by George Martin and backed by "I Couldn't Take My Eyes Off You."

    It has been widely recorded since, including as an outtake from the Double White album. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England
  • Paul McCartney stated during a 2014 Twitter Q&A that this is his favorite song that he wrote for another artist.

Comments: 2

  • Kerry from Melbourne. Australia.Paul McCartney also wrote It's For You for Cilla, but not listed here.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyCilla Black died August 2nd, 2015 at 72.
    May she R.I.P.
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