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"She's a Woman" is a song by The Beatles.
It was released as the B-side to "I Feel Fine" in 1964, their last single release that year. It reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 from frequent airplay.
The song, penned by Paul McCartney (though credited to Lennon/McCartney), was his attempt at imitating the vocal style of Little Richard. This is why the song is in such a high register, even for McCartney's tenor range.
Some takes of the song (especially recordings of live concerts) feature an extended outro.
The lyrics "turn me on,", were as John Lennon was quoted saying, "so excited to say 'turn me on' — you know, about marijuana and all that... using it as an expression."
The structure of the song is fairly simple, with the melody carried mostly by McCartney's voice. His bass and a backing piano produce a countermelody, with Lennon's and George Harrison's guitars playing chords on the backbeat. During the first verse, the piano also plays chords on the upbeats. Harrison also plays a bright guitar solo during the middle eight.
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"I Feel Fine" is a riff-driven rock song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon--McCartney) and released in 1964 by The Beatles as the A-side of their eighth British single. The song is notable for the use of feedback on a recording for the first time by any musician.
The single reached the top of the British charts on 12 December of that year, displacing The Rolling Stones' "Little Red Rooster," and remained there for five weeks. It also reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1964. The B-side was "She's a Woman".
"I Feel Fine" was the first of six number one songs in a row on the American charts, a record at the time. The subsequent singles were "Eight Days a Week", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!", "Yesterday", and "We Can Work It Out". The record was equalled by The Bee Gees in 1979 and surpassed by Whitney Houston in 1988.
It was also the first Beatles single to be released almost concurrently in the US and the UK.
Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording "Eight Days a Week".
"I wrote 'I Feel Fine' around that riff going on in the background", he recalled. "I told them I'd write a song specially for the riff. So they said, 'Yes. You go away and do that', knowing that we'd almost finished the album Beatles for Sale. Anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, 'I've written this song but it's lousy'. But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A side, so we decided to release it just like that."
John Lennon said that the riff was influenced by a riff in "Watch Your Step", a 1961 release written and performed by Bobby Parker and covered by the Beatles in concerts during 1961 and 1962.
Paul McCartney said the drums on "I Feel Fine" were inspired by Ray Charles's "What'd I Say".
At the time of the song's recording, the Beatles, having mastered the studio basics, had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes (such as electronic goofs, twisted tapes, and talkback).
"I Feel Fine" marks the earliest example of the use of feedback as a recording effect. Artists such as The Kinks and The Who had already used feedback live, but Lennon remained proud of the fact that the Beatles were the first group to actually put it on vinyl.
The intro to "I Feel Fine" starts with a single, percussive (yet pure-sounding) feedback note produced by plucking the A string on Lennon's guitar. This was the very first use of feedback on a rock record.
According to McCartney, "John had a semi-acoustic Gibson guitar. It had a pickup on it so it could be amplified . . . We were just about to walk away to listen to a take when John leaned his guitar against the amp. I can still see him doing it . . . it went, 'Nnnnnnwahhhhh!" And we went, 'What's that? Voodoo!' 'No, it's feedback.' Wow, it's a great sound!' George Martin was there so we said, 'Can we have that on the record?' 'Well, I suppose we could, we could edit it on the front.' It was a found object, an accident caused by leaning the guitar against the amp."
Although it sounded very much like an electric guitar, Lennon actually played it on an acoustic-electric guitar (a Gibson model J-160E), employing the guitar's onboard pickup and 1960s sound effect devices to make the acoustic guitar sound more electronic.
The intro riff around a D major chord progresses to a C, then a G, where the G major vocals begin. Just before the coda, Lennon's intro riff (or ostinato), is repeated with a bright sound by George Harrison on electric guitar (a Gretsch Tennessean), followed by the more "electric" sound of John's amped acoustic.
The riff influenced the popular theme of the hit Friends TV sitcom - "I'll Be There for You" by The Rembrandts.
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"When We Was Fab" is a song written by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne about the days of Beatlemania, when The Beatles were first referred to as the "Fab Four".
The song appears as the sixth track on Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine and was later released as the second single from that album in January 1988.
In the United Kingdom, it peaked at #25 in the UK Singles Chart, and in the United States, the song peaked at #23 in Billboard magazine's Hot 100 singles chart. It is Harrison's last Top 40 hit in the U.S., and the second such hit in which the lyrics reflect on his years as a Beatle - the other being All Those Years Ago.
The lyrics make direct references to at least three songs associated with the 1960's, though only one is a Beatles original. One is Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Another is "You've Really Got a Hold on Me", a song by Smokey Robinson which The Beatles covered on the 1963 album With The Beatles. The last is "Taxman" by The Beatles. There is also a reference to "Strangers in the Night", a song by Bert Kaemfert who also produced the Beatles' first record as the backing band for Tony Sheridan.
In 2010, AOL radio listeners chose "When We Was Fab" as one of the 10 Best George Harrison Songs, appearing at #9 on the list.
The single cover incorporates Klaus Voormann's 1966 line drawing of Harrison, which was used in the album art for The Beatles' album Revolver (the letters ER from the title are visible), along with a similar, updated drawing of Harrison 22 years later.
In this music video that accompanied the song (directed by Godley & Creme) also referenced the other three former Beatles.
George suddenly appears dressed with his Sgt. Pepper's costume, which he had only reacquired after many years shortly before shooting the video.
Ringo Starr appears prominently first as Harrison's "assistant" and then as the drummer.
A man dressed up in a Walrus costume playing a bass left-handed refers to Paul McCartney (who was asked to appear but was not available).
John Lennon, who died in 1980, is represented by a passer-by carrying his Imagine album.
Also making guest appearances in the video are Gary Wright, Elton John, Paul Simon, Derek Taylor, Jeff Lynne, Ray Cooper and Neil Aspinall.
The green apple passing through George's hands, interrupting his guitar playing, is symbolic of the Apple Records label.
The video received six nominations at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards, including best art director for Sid Bartholomew, famous for his work on Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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"In My Life" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent of his contribution is in dispute. George Martin contributed the instrumental bridge.
Released on the 1965 album Rubber Soul, it is ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" as well as fifth on their list of The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs. The song placed second on CBC's 50 Tracks. Mojo magazine named it the best song of all time in 2000.
According to Lennon, the song's origins can be found when the English journalist Kenneth Allsop made a remark that Lennon should write songs about his childhood.
Afterwards, Lennon wrote a song in the form of a long poem reminiscing on his childhood years. The original version of the lyrics was based on a bus route he used to take in Liverpool, naming various sites seen along the way, including Penny Lane and Strawberry Field.
However, Lennon found it to be "ridiculous", calling it "the most boring sort of 'What I Did On My Holidays Bus Trip' song"; he reworked the words, replacing the specific memories with a generalised meditation on his past. "Very few lines" of the original version remained in the finished song.
According to Lennon's friend and biographer Pete Shotton, the lines "Some [friends] are dead and some are living/In my life I've loved them all" referred to Stuart Sutcliffe (who died in 1962) and to Shotton.
Regarding authorship of the melody, Lennon's and McCartney's recollections differ. Referring to McCartney, Lennon said "his contribution melodically was the harmony and the middle-eight itself."
McCartney claimed he set Lennon's lyrics to music from beginning to end, taking inspiration for the melody from songs by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.
"I liked 'In My Life'. Those were words that John wrote and I wrote the tune to it. That was a great one."
The song was recorded on 18 October 1965, and was complete except for the instrumental bridge.
At that time, Lennon had not decided what instrument to use, but he subsequently asked George Martin to play a piano solo, suggesting "something Baroque-sounding".
Martin wrote a Bach-influenced piece that he found he could not play at the song's tempo. On 22 October, the solo was recorded at half-tempo (one octave lower) and tape speed was doubled for the final recording, solving the performance challenge and giving the piano solo a unique, harpsichord-like timbre.
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