"There's a Place" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their debut album, Please Please Me, released in March 1963. It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to McCartney–Lennon. In the United States, the song was released in July 1963 on the group's first US LP, Introducing... The Beatles, later reissued in January 1964 as Beatlemania surged there. It was also issued as a non-album single in the US, in March 1964, as the B-side to "Twist and Shout", reaching number 74 in the Billboard Hot 100. Lennon said that "There's a Place" was his attempt at writing a song in the Motown style. According to Paul McCartney, the song's title phrase originated from "There's a Place for Us", from the soundtrack album to the 1961 film West Side Story. The song's lyrics relate to the singer's ability to overcome his loneliness by retreating into the haven of his mind. "There's a Place" has received a favourable response from several music critics. Some reviewers admire its harmonies and recognise the lyrics as exhibiting a depth not found in contemporaneous pop songs. Some have seen it as anticipating the later introspection of the Beatles and Lennon in particular, heard in songs like "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows". Background Among Beatles biographers and historians, Mark Lewisohn, Walter Everett, Tim Riley and Mark Hertsgaard credit John Lennon as the main writer of "There's a Place". In a 1971 interview, Lennon identifies the song as having been written by himself. He recalled in 1980 that he was attempting to write a "Motown, black thing", with the lyrics saying "the usual Lennon things". Music critic Ian MacDonald speculates that he was referring to the Isley Brothers, but comments that this influence is not readily apparent on the final recording. Everett also does not consider the song to be especially Motown-influenced, but draws a comparison between soul singer Arthur Alexander and the Marvelettes' 1961 version of "I Want a Guy". In his 1997 authorised biography, Many Years from Now, Paul McCartney instead recalls co-writing the song with Lennon in the front room of his childhood home, 20 Forthlin Road, "but with a bias towards being [his] original idea". Explaining that he owned a copy of the soundtrack album to the 1961 film West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, McCartney says that he drew the