Difference between revisions of "This Boy"
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Revision as of 13:52, 14 April 2009
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| Single by The Beatles | |||||
| A-side | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | ||||
| Released | 29 November 1963 |
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| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963 |
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| Genre | Beat | ||||
| Length | 2:13 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone R5084 | ||||
| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||
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| “ | ust my attempt at writing one of those three-part harmony Smokey Robinson songs. Nothing in the lyrics... just a sound and a harmony. There was a period when I thought I didn't write melodies... that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n roll. But of course, when I think of some of my own songs-- 'In My Life,' or some of the early stuff-- 'This Boy,' I was writing melody with the best of them | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1980 |
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| “ | Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings) 'To know know know her is to love love love her...' We learned that in my dad's house in Liverpool. | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, 1988 |
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Watch the Beatles performing This Boy:
