"Can't Buy Me Love" marked the first time McCartney tried to write with a 12-bar blues riff. It was their first song recorded outside the U.K.

'Can't Buy Me Love,' the Patrick Dempsey-starring rom-com that got its title from a Beatles song, was released on Aug. 14, 1987.

In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul said he wrote “Can’t Buy Me Love” on a piano in the George V Hotel in Paris. He and The Beatles were staying at the hotel, which was near the Champs ...