She Loves You

August 23, 1963 (UK)

She Loves You is a song by British band The Beatles in the year 1963. Has been written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The song was released in the UK on 23 August 1963, a single with I'll Get You on the B-side. The single was the best selling single of 1963 in the UK and the Beatles at all. It marked the starting point for a number of sales records. The single placed immediately at number one on the UK Singles Chart and stayed 41 weeks in the charts continuously.

Composition

Lennon and McCartney wrote She Loves You on June 26, 1963 after a concert with Roy Orbison and Gerry & The Pacemakers in Newcastle upon Tyne. The first ideas emerged already in the tour bus, and the following night was completed by Lennon and McCartney the song in a hotel room. The unusual idea to write the song from the third person out, goes back to Paul McCartney. Compared with their producer George Martin had to enforce the unusual final chord of the song, the jazzy those deemed to the Beatles.

Occupation

  • John Lennon: vocals, guitar
  • Paul McCartney: vocals, bass
  • George Harrison: guitar, vocals
  • Ringo Starr: Drums

Recording

On 1 July 1963, the Beatles She Loves You took on a two- track tape at Abbey Road Studios in London. The tape with the recording session is considered lost. The sound engineer Norman Smith remembers that he could take a quick look at a lyric sheet of She Loves You before the recording session and after it, " yeah yeah, yeahs " which many saw, he judged that he would not like the song. When the Beatles but a short time later, the first takes grossed, Smith suddenly changed his mind.

The exact number of played Takes is - because the master tape has been missing - unknown. For She Loves You and I'll Get You, which was recorded on the same day, the Beatles recorded at least three tapes.

On 4 July 1963 George Martin cut from different takes of the recording session from July 1, 1963 a new version together and mixed them for the upcoming single release in mono from. A stereo version was not initially made ​​. Since the master tapes disappeared a short time later under unknown circumstances, since never could a true stereo version are made. Instead, several so-called " mock- stereo versions " which have been mixed from the mono version appeared.

German version

The German sub-label of EMI, Odeon, demanded that the Beatles should sing in German in order to gain a foothold in the German music market. Against her express will found the corresponding slots on January 29, 1964 in the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris.

She Loves You was translated into German by the radio host Camillo rims from Radio Luxembourg. On the evening of the day before shooting himself rims met the Beatles, to discuss the translation. Paul McCartney had only one wish: rims should avoid the sound " ch" in the translation, as the Beatles could not pronounce correctly him. Then the Beatles left the translator a bottle of Dimple. Against a clock in the morning the Beatles appeared again in Felgens hotel room to rehearse his now finished translation on the spot. McCartney demanded that the title line " She loves you " because of the unspeakable for him "ch" in "She loves you" is changed, what rims replied: "No, you can not. This is Berlin dialect. This does not buy Cologne! "

It was the only time that the Beatles recordings outside of London. Since at this time the original master tapes of She Loves You 've been lost, the Beatles were forced to re-record the music. On the same day the Beatles recorded the German version of I Want to Hold Your Hand ( Come give me your hand ) as well as in English Can not Buy Me Love on.

In the U.S., She Loves You was released on September 16, 1963 at the small label Vee -Jay Records, but could not at first place in the Billboard charts themselves. It was not until the next single of the Beatles ( I Wanna Hold Your Hand ) reached number one on the singles charts in the U.S., is also a huge demand hired by She Loves You and the song was recorded 15 weeks in the American charts.

On the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 was released 2013 version, which had recorded the band for the radio station BBC.

Cover versions

None of the numerous cover versions of She Loves You was able to place in the charts vary, although it has been interpreted by renowned musicians, including Neil Sedaka and Peter Sellers. The Beatles themselves cited in the fadeout of her hit All You Need Is Love (1967 ) She Loves You.

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