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"She loves you yeah yeah yeah!!"
This is where Beatlemania begins. To countless millions around the world, this was also the beginning of the '60s.
Along with the then-shocking Beatle haircuts, this incredible song is the symbol, the signature tune of the early Beatles -the four happy, cheerful, chipper, and harmless mop tops. This is the Beatles before drugs, before Yoko Ono, before the facial hair, before the Maharishi, before the in-house fighting and bickering, before John said they were "more popular than Jesus." The song seems to encapsulate the image of the early Beatles, an image still held indelibly in the minds of millions of fans the world over.
"She Loves You" was written by John and Paul in very unremarkable circumstances. The two brilliant co-writers sat down in a hotel room on June 26, 1963, and dutifully knocked it out. They finished it up at McCartney's childhood home a few days later. This, by the way, was the first Beatles record of any kind with the publishing credit rendered as "Lennon-McCartney" rather than the other way around.
All songs written by John and Paul, even if one had written 90% or even the entire song themselves, were credited to John and Paul jointly. "She Loves You" seems to have been a genuine 50-50 collaborative effort.
At the time they composed it, the boys were on a bus tour, as a backup act for a teenage girl named Helen Shapiro. The song itself is unusual for a love song, in that it is a guy talking to another guy about a girl who loves the second guy.
John and Paul's original idea was an answer, back and forth, type song. According to Paul, the original plan was "a couple of us would sing 'she loves you' choruses and the others would do the 'yeah yeah yeah' ones. Then John and I agreed it was a pretty crummy idea… but at least we had the basic idea of writing the song." The answer Q&A was ditched, and instead, the "yeah yeah yeah" was tacked onto the opening line, a chorus in the middle, and the finish. The gimmick worked and the "yeah yeah yeah" became an early Beatles catchphrase. (Paul's father, a very proper Englishman, actually chided Paul for not using the more proper "yes yes yes" as the chorus.)
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