File:I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song - sample).ogg

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I Want to Hold Your Hand

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Additional:This song is an example of an early Beatles pop rock recording. It demonstrates the band operating as a basic rock group—guitars, bass, drums and vocals— playing a simple, catchy pop tune. This contrasts with songs they would later create in an expanding range of musical styles, using an increasingly innovative combination of unusual instruments and studio techniques. Though early, it nevertheless demonstrates an advance the band had already made in its "incorporation of a harmonized release, which, for the first time on a Beatles single, supplied a strong musical and emotional contrast to the overall exuberance of the song". (Source: Gould, Jonathan (2008), Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6, p. 214.) The sample presents part of the second verse, towards the end of which the harmonization can be heard in the combined vocals of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Words alone are inadequate to describe the song, and presenting the sound of this song alongside later ones is necessary for a complete understanding of its nature and its contrast with material from other periods, and hence of the way the band's music evolved during their career. Additionally, this song is historically significant: its sudden huge popularity in the U.S. in late 1963 was a key moment in the group's success story, as detailed in the article..

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This is the sample from a recording of The Beatles . Copyright in the recording is believed to belong to the record label or the composer and performers.

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The Beatles

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The Beatles' American releases

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This is the sample from a recording of Rock music . Copyright in the recording is believed to belong to the record label or the composer and performers.

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Rock music

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Additional:This sample illustrates an educational article, specifically to show an iconic song, which had a major impact on the development of the subject of the article and which is impossible to describe in text. It demonstrates a turning point in the cultural history of both the UK and US as no other track can, as the starting point of the musical "British Invasion". It is commonly said by US artists who heard the song at the time that "it altered everything, ushering in a new era and changing their lives" (Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties (London: Random House, 2nd edn, 2009), ISBN 0099526794, p. 101). Listening to this track allows readers to see links to earlier rock and roll (and other forms of music), but also to note contrasts in tempo and the unorthodox use of chords and harmonies. The "light", upbeat and "innoccent" nature of the song can also be contrasted with later, heavier and darker themes as rock music developed that cannot be fully understood without hearing the contrasting songs..

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