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{{cquote|That was Paul and me trying to write a song... and it didn't work out.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
 
{{cquote|That was Paul and me trying to write a song... and it didn't work out.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
  
{{cquote|It's got an interesting chord in it-- 'It's not easy/ To pre-TEND...' That was nicked from a song called 'All My Trials' which is on an album I had by Joan Baez.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
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{{cquote|It's got an interesting chord in it: 'It's not easy to pre-''tend'''. That was nicked from a song called 'All My Trials' which is on an album I had by Joan Baez: 'There's only one thing that money can't ''buy''.' It's like D, which goes to an A minor, which is unusual, you'd normally go from a D to an A major. It's a change that had always fascinated me, so I put it in. I liked that slightly faggy way we sang. 'Oh yeah, oh yeah,' which was very distinctive, very Beatley.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', p.151|1997}}
  
  

Revision as of 15:16, 27 August 2011

“I'll Get You”
“I'll Get You” cover
Single by The Beatles
B-side "She Loves You"
Released 23 August 1963 (UK)
16 September 1963 (US)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road Studios
1 July 1963
Genre Rock
Length 2:05
Label Parlophone R5055 (UK)
Swan 4152 (US)
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer George Martin
The Beatles singles chronology
"From Me to You"/"Thank You Girl" (1963) "I'll Get You" / "She Loves You"
(1964)
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy" (UK 1963)
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"I Saw Her Standing There" (US 1964)
The B-side of 'She Loves You' was meant to be the A-side.

—John Lennon, 1963

If we write one song, then we can get going after that and get more ideas. We wrote 'I'll Get You,' which is the B-side, first. And then 'She Loves You' came after that. You know-- We got ideas from that. Then we recorded it.

—Paul McCartney, 1963

That was Paul and me trying to write a song... and it didn't work out.

—John Lennon, 1980

It's got an interesting chord in it: 'It's not easy to pre-tend'. That was nicked from a song called 'All My Trials' which is on an album I had by Joan Baez: 'There's only one thing that money can't buy.' It's like D, which goes to an A minor, which is unusual, you'd normally go from a D to an A major. It's a change that had always fascinated me, so I put it in. I liked that slightly faggy way we sang. 'Oh yeah, oh yeah,' which was very distinctive, very Beatley.

—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now, p.151, 1997


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