With Please Please Me still making waves, the follow-up album With the Beatles was recorded only four months later. Stylistically the sound was close to the bone of their first studio album. The musical development of the band was yet to really take hold as it did in later albums. With the Beatles seemed to be a simple continuation of the Lennon McCartney songwriting practice. This was also the period when they were branching out to write for other artists; most notably The Rolling Stones, Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas.
The fab 4 were still reeling from the shock of overnight success, I guess it was a dangerous time in their early career to be taking chances and as Please Please Me had in fact pleased the world over – it seemed less risky to stick to a winning formula.
