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When the Beatles wanted to record in the afternoon of July 1, 1963 in the EMI studios “She Loves You”, hell suddenly got going. Geoff Emerick, then assistant, later a clay engineer of the Beatles, recalls: “The screaming girls who normally waited in front of the entrance had hit the door.
Whole pulse ran through the corridors and were hunted by London’s Bobbies. “The interruption also had their good, because the Beatles then knew one of the most excessive pop singles of all time.” The chaos “, said Emerick,” seemed to catapult their game for a new energy level. “
Distance in the lyrics
Lennon and McCartney had written the beginning of “She Loves You” in the tour bus – and actually wanted to complete the song in the evening in the “Turk’s Hotel” in Newcastle. The sticking point in the lyrics was the introduction of a third person who was supposed to break the stereotype “I love you”.
The inspiration came from Bobby Rydell, who had a little hit with “Forget Him” in England. “So it is another person who will bring this message,” said McCartney. “We built a distance. It was no longer one of us.”
Nevertheless, something was still missing. “The song was ready,” said Lennon, “but we needed an additional element. So we tried to do it with Yeah yeah yeah.
In McCartney’s parents’ home in Liverpool, they gave the song the finishing touch. Paul’s father suggested: “There are already so many Americanisms. Do you want to try, yes, yes’ try?” “You don’t understand that,” replied Paul. “That wouldn’t work.”
Even if the sound lives from its raw directness, the recording documents an increasing finesse: To open the song with a bang, “She Loves You” begins with the Refrain – a small trick that George Martin had recommended to them.
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The conclusion is a peculiar chord that Harrison came, but was initially rejected by Martin as “kitschy”. “But it just didn’t fit without the chord. So we left it in until George was convinced in the end,” said McCartney.
When the Beatles first played the song in London on the stage on October 13, 1963, all the dams broke: the “Beatlemania” could no longer be stopped. The band should rush from one triumph to the next in the coming years, but in England “She Loves You” remained the most successful single of the whole decade.