Single - “I Feel Fine” / “She’s a Woman” (1964)
Just a month after the release of “A Hard Day’s Night” the band was already back in the studio preparing what would eventually become their next album, “Beatles for Sale”. During those sessions, The Beatles managed to churn out a single with two original songs that would not feature on the album.
“I Feel Fine” is a John tune with a very catchy and prominent repeated guitar riff, a first for The Beatles. The track opens with a sustained A note and controlled feedback noise, a sound unheard of in music recording to that point. It exemplified the maturation of the band from writers of cheesy pop songs to geniuses of musical innovation.
“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.” - Paul
The B-side is Paul’s “She’s a Woman”. Singing near the top of his tonal range, Paul was apparently trying to immitate Little Richard’s vocal style. The song later featured in the film “Help!”.
The single was released on 23 (US) and 27 (UK) November, 1964. It was the #1 UK single for five weeks.
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