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Revision as of 15:45, 7 August 2011

“I Feel Fine”
“I Feel Fine” cover
Single by The Beatles
B-side "She's A Woman"
Released 27 November 1964(UK)
23 November 1964(US)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road Studios: 18 October 1964
Genre Rock
Length 2:18
Label Parlophone (UK) R5160
Capitol (US) 5222
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer George Martin
The Beatles singles chronology
"A Hard Day's Night"
(1964)
"I Feel Fine"
(1964)
"Ticket To Ride"
(1965)
George and I play the same bit on the guitar together-- that's the bit that'll set your feet a-tapping, as the reviews say. The middle-eight is the most tuneful part, to me, because it's a typical Beatles bit.

—John Lennon, 1964

This was the first time feedback was used on a record. It's right at the beginning.

—John Lennon, 1972

I wrote this at a recording session. It was tied together around the guitar riff that opens it.

—John Lennon, 1974

That's me completely. Including the guitar lick with the first feedback anywhere. I defy anybody to find a record... unless it is some old blues record from 1922... that uses feedback that way. So I claim it for the Beatles. Before Hendrix, before the Who, before anybody. The first feedback on record.

—John Lennon, 1980

John had a semi-acoustic Gibson guitar. It had a pick-up on it so it could be amplified... We were just about to walk away to listen to a take when John leaned his guitar against the amp. I can still see him doing it... and it went, 'Nnnnnnwahhhhh!" And we went, 'What's that? Voodoo!' 'No, it's feedback.' Wow, it's a great sound!' George Martin was there so we said, 'Can we have that on the record?' 'Well, I suppose we could, we could edit it on the front.' It was a found object-- an accident caused by leaning the guitar against the amp. The song itself was more John's than mine. We sat down and co-wrote it with John's original idea. John sang it, I'm on harmonies.

—Paul McCartney, 1994


The Beatles perform "I Feel Fine" at Shea Stadium in 1965...

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