The Beatles - If I Needed Someone (Live at the Nippon Budokan Hall) [HiQ]

"If I Needed Someone" is a song written by George Harrison. Versions by The Beatles and by The Hollies appeared simultaneously, both being released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1965. The Hollies version appeared on a single. Most of the Hollies previous singles had been big top ten hits. When their version of "If I Needed Someone" only reached the lower half of the top 20 in the UK, they were quite critical and said they had made a mistake recording it. The Beatles recording of the song first appeared in the UK on the 1965 album Rubber Soul and was later included in the 1966 US release "Yesterday and Today".

The song was heavily influenced by the music of The Byrds. In a 2004 radio interview with the BBC in London, Roger McGuinn confirmed that Harrison had sent a tape recording of the song to him in Los Angeles before it was released on record. Harrison did this to show McGuinn that the guitar riff he had used in "If I Needed Someone" was based on McGuinn's own riff in "The Bells of Rhymney."
The song as recorded by The Beatles is in the key of A mixolydian, switching to B minor during the breaks. The verses are heavily harmonised: Harrison sings the first two lines of the first verse by himself—double-tracked, as was customary on Beatles recordings of the period—after which John Lennon and Paul McCartney join in, singing above him throughout on each subsequent verse. Harrison sings the bridge solo, once again double-tracked.
"If I Needed Someone" was the only Harrison composition played during any of The Beatles' tours; otherwise Harrison sang only covers onstage. "If I Needed Someone" is one of only two tracks from Rubber Soul that the Beatles performed live (the other was "Nowhere Man"). It was included on The Beatles final UK tour in December 1965, the 1966 NME Poll-Winners All-Star Concert, and on the 1966 Summer World Tour, including The Beatles' very last concert, in Candlestick Park on 29 August 1966. The 1982 documentary The Compleat Beatles used a clip from The Beatles' haggard performance of the song on stage in Tokyo as an illustration of band's growing weariness with touring.
The song is a playable track on The Beatles: Rock Band; despite the venue for the aforementioned Japanese shows appearing in the game, the song is on the level modelled after the group's legendary Shea Stadium performance, which took place before it had been recorded.

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[FRE1991DDIE]

Great performance!

[TheBeatleMirko]

@FRE1991DDIE Really great!! :D

[mac3079b]

Great upload Mirko..

[TheBeatleMirko]

@mac3079b Thanks, Mac!!

[ivyj101]

I loove The Beatles! (:

[JubeProductions]

love the bright sun drenched guitar intro. it just brings a smile to my face.

[elirosen1391]

George sounds exhausted. I guess that's what three years of non-stop screaming fans can do to you.

[mtc1982mtc]

From Brazil

From Marcio

I wish I was there.

Good times.

[TheFabFour99]

Great Song!