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{{Infobox Single
| Name           = I Want to Hold Your Hand
| Cover          = this-boy.jpg
| Artist         = The Beatles
| B-side         = "[[This Boy]]" (UK)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"(US)
| Released       =29 November 1963 (UK) <br/> 13 January 1964 (US)
| Format         = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded       =Abbey Road Studios<br/>17 October 1963
| Genre          = Rock
| Length         = 2:24
| Label          = [[Parlophone]] R5084 (UK) <br/> [[Capitol]] 5112 (US)
| Writer         = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer       = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position = 
| Last single    = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single    = "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "[[This Boy]]"(UK 1963)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Next single    = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
{{Extra album cover
 | Upper caption = Alternative covers
 | Type     = single
 | Cover    = i-want-to-hold-your-hand.jpg
 | Lower caption = US 1964 issue
}}
}}

{{cquote|Let's see, we were told we had to get down to it. So we found this house when we were walking along one day. We knew we had to really get this song going, so we got down in the basement of this disused house and there was an old piano. It wasn't really disused, it was rooms to let. We found this old piano and started banging away. There was a little old organ too. So we were having this informal jam and we started banging away. Suddenly a little bit came to us, the catch line. So we started working on it from there. We got our pens and paper out and just wrote down the lyrics. Eventually, we had some sort of a song, so we played it for our recording manager and he seemed to like it. We recorded it the next day.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

{{cquote|We wrote alot 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-- both playing into each other's noses|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|'Eyeball to eyeball' is a very good description of it. That's exactly how it was. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' was very co-written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

<p style="clear:all;">Performance on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' (Feb 9, 1964)]</p>
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