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Although Peter & Gordon had several hits which charted higher than "Woman", Gordon Waller would cite "Woman" as the ultimate Peter and Gordon track and his personal favourite: "You can sing it without any music, you can sing it with one guitar, you can sing it with a band, or you can sing it with
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pressings carry the name A. Smith instead) to see if the song would be a success without the Lennon–McCartney credit. McCartney commented at a press conference in August 1966, "People come up to them and say, 'Ah, we see you're just getting in on the Lennon–McCartney bandwagon'. That's why they did
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it took only two weeks for the song's real pedigree to be revealed, as the first review of the record said, "This
Bernard Webb has an amazing talent. Could even be Paul McCartney!" "Woman" would be overtly introduced as written by McCartney when Peter and Gordon performed the song on the 11 April
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that one with our names not on it...because everyone sort of thinks that's the reason they get hits. It's not true, really."
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