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"You Can't Do That" was recorded on Tuesday, 25 February 1964, in EMI Studios in London. [11] An early take with a guide vocal is included on Anthology 1. [12] It was the first song completed in the week before the Beatles began filming A Hard Day's Night, though "I Should Have Known Better" and "And I Love Her" were also started on the same day.
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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
Between 1963 and 1966, the Beatles' songs were released on different albums in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, 30 songs were released as non-album singles, while appearing on numerous albums in the US. Since the remastering of the band's catalogue on CDs in the 1980s, the Beatles have a primary "core catalogue" of 14 albums ...
Unusually short for the Beatles, the song features only one bridge. [10] Everett writes that it borrows aspects from the band's earlier songs. For example, he writes it takes "two- bar groupings that embellish I with an alternating IV" from the chorus of " Love Me Do " and adds it to the song's first verse.
The progression is also used entirely with minor chords[i-v-vii-iv (g#, d#, f#, c#)] in the middle section of Chopin's etude op. 10 no. 12. However, using the same chord type (major or minor) on all four chords causes it to feel more like a sequence of descending fourths than a bona fide chord progression.
The unusual chord progression is an example of the Beatles' use of chords for added harmonic expression, [28] a device that Harrison adopted from Lennon's approach to melody. [29] Musicologist Walter Everett describes the composition as "a tour de force of altered scale degrees". He adds that, such is the ambiguity throughout, "its tonal ...
The original recording can also be heard during the loading screen for the song if it is downloaded in the 2009 video game The Beatles: Rock Band. Although Lennon once said of the song that he "wasn't proud of that" and "I was just going through the motions", [ 20 ] in 1980 he described it as "pure, like a painting, a pure watercolour". [ 12 ]