I Want To Hold Your Hand

Yes Herbal Jazz Cigarettes are good aren't they? First time I did it I had about four drags and then spent (what seemed like) three hours trying to dance at a disco. Dear me.

Listen to Rubber Soul when your high. Well, as if you havent.

[In Blue Hawaii]

^I get high listening to Rubber Soul

[An Apple Beatle]

Only that one? lol...hehe!

[In Blue Hawaii]

No. In fact, every NANOSECOND of Beatle music on Earth!

[An Apple Beatle]

It's gotta be done! hehehe!

[raxo]

If a thread with this title already exits ... why another one? So I'm posting the following on this one (the "question about I Want To Hold Your Hand" thread it's a good reading, ... don't miss it   ):


"I Want to Hold Your Hand"

from the album Meet the Beatles! in the United States
Not featured on an original album in the United Kingdom
Released 29 November 1963 (UK)
December 26, 1963 (US)

Recorded Abbey Road: 17 October 1963
Genre Rock and roll
Length 2:25


Chart positions
#1 (UK)
#1 (US)

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" is the hit 1963 Beatles song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that led the British Invasion of the United States music charts. It was the first Beatles record to be made using 4-track equipment and in real stereo, and the Beatles' first number one song on the Billboard magazine charts, heralding 19 more number one singles from the Beatles in the United States. It also held the top spot in the United Kingdom charts, where a million copies of the single had already been ordered on its release. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" became the Beatles' best-selling single worldwide.

McCartney and Lennon did not have any particular inspiration for the song, unlike some of their later hits such as "Yesterday", "Hey Jude" and "Let It Be". Instead, they had received specific instructions from manager Brian Epstein to write a song with the American market in mind. The song was also recorded in German as "Komm, gib mir deine Hand," (Come, give me your hand) one of the very few times the Beatles recorded a song in a language other than English.

Writing in a basement
Lennon and McCartney were ordered by manager Brian Epstein to sit down and write something intended to cater to the interests of American listeners. The two Beatles sat at a piano they found in the basement of a house, and began jamming with it. However, whose house it was is in contention. Most sources state that "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was composed in the cellar of Jane Asher's home in Wimpole Street; she was McCartney's girlfriend at the time. This story was supported by Lennon; in September 1980 (the interview was published in the month of his death, December of the same year), he told Playboy magazine:

We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want To Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that