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An instrumental version of "This Boy", orchestrated by George Martin, is used as the incidental music during Ringo Starr's towpath scene in the film A Hard Day's Night. The piece, under the title, "Ringo's Theme (This Boy)", was released as a single—but failed to chart in the UK—on 7 August 1964 with "And I Love Her" on the B-Side, [ 11 ...
On 7 March 1962, the Beatles recorded at the Playhouse Theatre for Pilbeam's BBC program. They recorded four tracks for the program, including "Hello Little Girl", though it was the only song of the four not broadcast. [28] On 13 February 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein visited producer George Martin for the first time.
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.It was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label, accompanied by the non-album double A-side single "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper".
"Girl" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written by John Lennon [3] [4] and credited to Lennon–McCartney. "Girl" was the last complete song recorded for that album. [5] [6] "Girl" is considered to be one of the most melancholic and complex of the Beatles' earlier love songs. [7]
The earliest known taping of the song [1] is the Beatles performing a version in January 1969 during their Get Back sessions. [15] [16] [nb 1] John Lennon is on lead vocal while McCartney supplies a repeated sustained upper descant. [1] McCartney recorded another early version on a crude home tape in the mid-1970s.
The Beatles recorded "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at EMI Studios in Studio 2 on 17 October 1963. This song, along with the single's B-side, "This Boy", was the first Beatles song to be recorded with four-track technology. The two songs were recorded on the same day, each needing seventeen takes. [19]
A simple twelve-bar blues number extended into fourteen-bars, [10] the song uses only the chords I, IV and V. [9] One of the few Beatles songs to feature a simple verse form, [11] musicologist Alan W. Pollack suggests that, in the context of the Beatles' 1965 compositions, its simple format is stylistically regressive. [9]
A live version of the song was included on the Beatles live album The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, first released in 1977, and re-released in 2016 as Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Recorded on 23 August 1964, 'Boys' was the first track to be released on digital download and streaming platforms, one week prior to the full remastered album release ...