The Beatles - She Loves You (live)

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McCartney and Lennon started composing "She Loves You" after a concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle as part of their tour with Roy Orbison and Gerry & The Pacemakers. They began writing the song on the tour bus, and continued it later that night at their hotel in Newcastle. In 2003, plans to install a plaque at the hotel concerned were stalled after it turned out neither Paul McCartney nor Ringo Starr, the surviving Beatles, could recall whether it was the Imperial Hotel or the Royal Turk's Head where the group had stayed.

The other circumstances under which the song was written are generally agreed upon. In 2000 McCartney said: "There was a Bobby Rydell song out at the time "Forget Him" and, as often happens, you think of one song when you write another. We were in a van up in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. I'd planned an 'answering song' where a couple of us would sing 'she loves you' and the other ones would answer 'yeah yeah'. We decided that was a crummy idea but at least we then had the idea of a song called 'She Loves You'. So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it — John and I, sitting on twin beds with guitars." It was completed the following day at McCartney's family home at Forthlin Road, Liverpool. Unusually for a love song, the lyrics were written in the third person. This idea was attributed by Lennon to McCartney in 1980: "It was Paul's idea: instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. That kind of little detail is still in his work. He will write a story about someone. I'm more inclined to write about myself."

The British music establishment at that time found the phrase "yeah" controversial. National radio in the form of the BBC broadcast the single and "in some quarters it was seen to hail the collapse of civilised society." Lennon, being mindful of Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up", wanted something equally as stirring: "I don't know where the 'yeah yeah yeah' came from. I remember when Elvis did "All Shook Up" it was the first time in my life that I had heard 'uh huh', 'oh yeah', and 'yeah yeah' all sung in the same song." "The 'wooooo' was taken from The Isley Brothers' 'Twist And Shout'. We stuck it in everything." McCartney recalls them playing the finished song on acoustic guitars to his father at home immediately after the song was completed: "We went into the living room [and said] 'Dad, listen to this. What do you think? And he said 'That's very nice son, but there's enough of these Americanisms around. Couldn't you sing "She loves you, yes, yes, yes!". At which point we collapsed in a heap and said 'No, Dad, you don't quite get it!'"

George Martin, The Beatles' producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison "They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George [Harrison] doing the sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord. It was just like a Glen Miller arrangement." McCartney later reflected: "We took it to George Martin and sang 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeeaah...' and that tight little sixth cluster we had at the end. George said: 'It's very corny, I would never end on a sixth'. But we said 'It's such a great sound, it doesn't matter.'"

The recording of the song on 1 July 1963 was done on a two-track recording machine. Standard procedure at EMI Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape for singles once they had been "mixed down" to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of two Beatles singles (four songs): "Love Me Do", "P.S. I Love You", "She Loves You", and "I'll Get You". These tracks only exist as a mono master, although several mock-stereo remixes have been made by EMI affiliates worldwide, including a few made in 1966 by Abbey Road engineer Geoff Emerick.

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  • BEST SONG EVER

  • ringo was so cute and paul was cute 2

    and george looks angry alot but still cute jhon laughs a lot

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  • george makes it sound good cause from 0:12 - 25 it didnt sound that good until george came in

  • @tutupatia 'pop' is short for popular, like the other guy said, it's pretty much a softer form of rock music, it used to be amazing, but the pop acts of today are horrible, they should be ashamed of themselves.

  • I never heard that song, but now that I've heard it I can say that's great.

  • I have the video of she loves you live complete

  • @tutupatia Pop music is a mixture of mild rock and country, and little r&b. If you have heard singers like. Abba, Beatles, Olivia Newton John, Calene Dion. Most of their songs are pop music. It has a med to fast beet, and is pleasan to listen to. Most pople listen to it all the time in may different radio stations and dont know their listenting to pop. Even Michael Jackson did many pops. Elton John Neil Diamond. Etc. Most early and even current singers sang this type of music & still do.

  • @tutupatia Pop music is a mixture of mild rock and country, and little r&b. If you have heard singers like. Abba, Beatles, Olivia newton John, Calea Dian. Most of their songs are pop music. It has a med to fast beet, and is pleasanto listen to. Most pople listen to it all the time in may different radio stations and dont know their listenting to pop. Even Michale Jackson did many may pops. Elton John Neil Diamond. Etc. Most early and even current singers sang this type of music & still do.

  • I don't get it, why do people say made pop music? I don't know what pop is, so could someone tell me a pop song from the Beatles?

  • Great!

  • wwwwwww que asco se me hace que era la cancion de la prehistoria

  • wow what a great hatchet job

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