I Want to Hold Your Hand

I Want To Hold Your Hand is a song by the English rock band The Beatles . I Want To Hold Your Hand was in 1963 released as the fifth single from The Beatles and achieved in different countries first place in the charts. I Want To Hold Your Hand was the first single by The Beatles which first took place in the Billboard Hot 100 in theUnited States and thus constituted the breakthrough of the Beatles in that country. The song was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded in October 1963 at the Abbey Road Studios in London.

Contents

 * 1 Background and composition
 * 2 Recordings
 * 3 Credits
 * 4 Tracklist
 * 4.1 7 "single
 * 5 Hitnotering
 * 6 Radio 2 Top 2000

Background and composition
In 1963, Paul McCartney moved to the family home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher at 2 Upper Wimpole Street in London. In the basement of that house gave the mother of Jane, Margaret Asher, music lessons. In the basement was also a piano and piano that Lennon and McCartney wrote together I Want To Hold Your Hand. In many songs of Lennon and McCartney had one of the musicians, the idea for the song and helped others in complementing and perfecting it. But some songs, like I Want To Hold Your Hand, were written really together. Lennon said this in 1980 :

Recordings
I Want To Hold Your Hand was recorded in one recording session on 17 October 1963 at Abbey Road Studios. This was the first session in which The Beatles used a 4-track recorder . I Want To Hold Your Hand was shot in 17 takes, with the first take is not much different from the last. That day The Beatles also took the B-side of the single, This Boy on.

I Want to Hold Your Hand / Komm, gib mir deine Hand was one of two songs (along with She Loves You / Sie liebt dich) who played Beatles in German. Both songs were translated by the Luxembourg musician Camillo Felgen in German under the pseudonym of Jean Nicolas. Often, however, stated Felgen / Nicolas.

Credits

 * John Lennon - vocals , guitar
 * Paul McCartney - vocals, bass
 * George Harrison - lead guitar
 * Ringo Starr - drums

7 "single
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 * 1) "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
 * 2) "This Boy"
 * 1) "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
 * 2) "Roll Over Beethoven"