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{{Infobox Single
| Name           = I Feel Fine
| Cover          = i-feel-fine.jpg
| Artist         = The Beatles
| B-side         = "[[She's A Woman]]"
| Released       = 27 November 1964(UK)<br/>23 November 1964(US)
| Format         = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded       = Abbey Road Studios: 18 October 1964
| Genre          = Rock
| Length         = 2:18
| Label          = [[Parlophone]] (UK) R5160<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US) 5222| Writer         = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer       = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position = 
| Last single    = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"<br/>(1964)
| This single    = "I Feel Fine"<br/>(1964)
| Next single    = "[[Ticket To Ride]]"<br/>(1965)
| Misc           = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album          = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type           = studio
| prev_track     = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no        = 7
| this_track     = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no       = 8
| next_track     = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no        = 9}}
}}


{{cquote|This was the first time feedback was used on a record. It's right at the beginning.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|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.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|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.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

{{cquote|I wrote 'I Feel Fine' around that riff going on in the background. I tried to get that effect into practically every song on the LP, but the others wouldn't have it.  ... George and I play the same bit on guitar together &#151; that's the bit that'll set your feet a-tapping, as the reviews say. I suppose it has a bit of a country-and-western feel about it, but then so have a lot of our songs. The middle-eight is the most tuneful part, to me, because it's a typical Beatles bit.|John Lennon, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.160|2000}}

{{cquote|I'll tell you exactly how that came about. We were crossing Scotland in the back of an Austin Princess, singing 'Matchbox' (Carl Perkins) in three-part harmony. And it turned into 'I Feel Fine.' The guitar part was from Bobby Parker's 'Watch Your Step,' just a bastardized version.|George Harrison, ''Musician Magazine'', March 1990, p. 34|1990}}

{{cquote|The guitar riff was actually influenced by a record called 'Watch Your Step' by Bobby Parker.|George Harrison, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.160|2000}}

{{cquote|'Watch Your Step' is one of my favourite records. The Beatles have used the lick in various forms. The Allman Brothers used the lick straight as it was.|John Lennon, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.160|2000}}

{{cquote|I wrote this at a recording session. It was tied together around the guitar riff that opens it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1974}}

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'''Listen to guitarist Bobby Parker's influential 'Watch Your Step' (1961). NOTE the drumming &#151; virtually identical to the Beatles' song &#151; and, of course, the similarity in the guitar riff, as John notes:'''

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