87-488: The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street , Liverpool , England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 50s and early 1960s. The club became closely associated with Merseybeat and regularly played host to The Beatles in their early years. The Cavern Club closed in 1973 and was filled in during construction work on
174-562: A Martian who landed and asked the meaning of rock and roll? The first answer would be "She Loves You". The British establishment at that time found the refrain "yeah, yeah, yeah" controversial. National radio in the form of the BBC broadcast the single and "in some quarters it was seen to hail the collapse of civilised society". "Yeah, yeah, yeah" was to have a great effect on the Beatles' image – in some parts of Europe , they became known as
261-631: A compulsory purchase of the warehouses, the basement of which housed the Cavern Club, in order to build a ventilation shaft for the new Merseyrail underground railway. That was never built, however, and the area was turned into a car park. Soon after the Cavern club closed in 1973, a new Cavern club opened at 7 Mathew Street, later renamed the Revolution Club. This club would later shut down and be reopened as Eric's , which itself became
348-411: A future archivist were to select one single tune to characterise the Beatles' appeal and the stylistic devices for which they became world famous, he would be forced to choose 'She Loves You'." In 1979, author Greil Marcus included "She Loves You" in his Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island list of essential rock records. Even more fundamentally, Marcus posed the question of what one would tell
435-431: A hit for Petula Clark in 1965, twice refers to the club as "a cellar full of noise". Brian Epstein's 1964 autobiography was entitled "A Cellarful of Noise". Future singing star Cilla Black worked as the hat-check girl there. One of the last groups to play at the club was Focus , with Jan Akkerman , Thijs van Leer , Pierre van der Linden and Bert Ruiter . The club closed on 28 May 1973 after British Rail made
522-430: A lot of changes, with some in the audience thinking they were watching a German band, as they were billed from Hamburg. From 1961 to 1963 the Beatles made 292 appearances at the club, with their last occurring on 3 August 1963, a month after the band recorded " She Loves You " and just six months before the Beatles' first trip to the U.S. By this time "Beatlemania" was sprouting across England, and with girls demanding to see
609-407: A notable local music venue in the late 1970s. On 7 December 1981 plans were revealed to excavate the buried remains of the Cavern Club cellar. It would form part of a £7-million redevelopment project of the former warehouse site of 8–12 Mathew Street which had housed the Cavern Club up until its closure in 1973. However, on 23 June 1982, it was announced by the project architect, David Backhouse, that
696-494: A number of falsetto "wooooo"s, which Lennon acknowledged as being inspired by the Isley Brothers ' recording of " Twist and Shout ", which the Beatles had earlier recorded, and which had also been inserted into the group's previous single, " From Me to You ". As Lennon later said: "We stuck it in everything". McCartney recalls them playing the finished song on acoustic guitars to his father Jim at home immediately after
783-462: A result, a statue of Jung was erected in Mathew Street in 1987, but being made of plaster , was vandalised and replaced by a more durable version in 1993. Today, Mathew Street is one of Liverpool's most popular nightlife destinations. Citations Sources [REDACTED] Media related to Mathew Street at Wikimedia Commons She Loves You " She Loves You " is a song by
870-451: A sixth'. But we said 'It's such a great sound, it doesn't matter'." The Beatles: Complete Scores shows only the notes D (the fifth) and E (the sixth) sung for the final chord, while on the recording McCartney sang G (the root) as Harrison sang E and Lennon sang D. In the opinion of Roger McGuinn of the Byrds , writers who attempt to define the origins of folk rock "don't realise that
957-400: A story about someone. I'm more inclined to write about myself." Lennon, being mindful of Elvis Presley 's " All Shook Up ", wanted something equally stirring: "I don't know where the 'yeah yeah yeah' came from [but] I remember when Elvis did 'All Shook Up' it was the first time in my life that I had heard 'uh huh', 'oh yeah', and 'yeah yeah' all sung in the same song". The song also included
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#17327729286221044-431: A week after it was written, using a two-track recording machine. Documentation regarding the number of takes required and other recording details does not exist. Early takes of the song featured the use of a Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone on Harrison's guitar. Mixing was carried out on 4 July. Standard procedure at EMI Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape for singles once they had been mixed down to
1131-484: Is the song that thrust the Beatles full-scale into the British national spotlight. Part of this was the effectiveness of the song's hook; author Eric Starr wrote in retrospect, "Each chorus or refrain pounds the hook into your head until it's imprinted in your brain." As Nicholas Schaffner later wrote, it was "'yeah, yeah, yeah' chanted repeatedly and emphatically enough to drive any listener out of his mind, one way or
1218-588: The Norwegian Bliss , Norwegian Joy , Norwegian Encore , and the Norwegian Epic , which showcase Beatles tribute bands. 53°24′22″N 2°59′14″W / 53.40611°N 2.98722°W / 53.40611; -2.98722 Mathew Street Mathew Street is a street in Liverpool , England , notable as the location of the new Cavern Club , the Beatles having played in
1305-585: The Merseyrail underground rail loop. It reopened in 1984. It was temporarily closed again from 1989 to 1991, and has been open ever since. Alan Sytner, having been inspired by the jazz district in Paris where there were a number of clubs in cellars, returned to Liverpool and strove to open a club similar to the Le Caveau de la Huchette jazz club. He eventually found a fruit warehouse where people were leasing
1392-701: The yeah-yeahs or yé-yés . As late as the mid-1970s, some countries in Southeast Asia were still putting out edicts that forbade Beatles haircuts and so-called "yeah, yeah, yeah music". In 1965, at the 11th Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Communist German Democratic Republic , the party's General Secretary Walter Ulbricht referenced
1479-719: The "Hatrocks" (who, it is revealed early on, hate 'Bug Music' by 'The Four Insects'—an obvious dig at the Beatles at the time), outgrow their welcome, the Flintstones and Rubbles rig their radio and phone and, wearing Beatle wigs, broadcast a performance of "She Said 'Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!'", driving them out of their house and over to the Gruesomes, who are also performing the song while wearing Beatle wigs. In 1975, authors Roy Carr and Tony Tyler wrote in The Beatles: An Illustrated Record that "If
1566-532: The (usually monaural ) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of four Beatles songs that were released as two singles: " Love Me Do ", " P.S. I Love You ", "She Loves You" and " I'll Get You ". These tracks only exist as a mono master, although several mock-stereo remixes have been made by EMI affiliates worldwide, including a few made in 1966 by Abbey Road engineer Geoff Emerick . A true stereo mix of "She Loves You," created by Giles Martin using AI technology commissioned by filmmaker Peter Jackson ,
1653-520: The 20th anniversary of the Beatle invasion of America showing an old photo of them on the front cover with the caption: "Twenty Years Ago, They Invaded America - Did We Love 'Em? YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!" On 27 July 2012, a portion of "She Loves You" as well as footage of the band performing the song was included in a montage of British music during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games . In 2018,
1740-681: The A- and B-sides of a single – and only for two years. When "She Loves You" came out as a single in the US on 16 September 1963, it received a positive notice in Billboard , but garnered very little radio airplay. New York disc jockey Murray the K saw it place third out of five in a listener record contest, but it failed to take off from that. The song was also featured as a part of the Rate-a-Record segment of American Bandstand where it scored in
1827-591: The Beatles and screaming just to get a glimpse of them, the group had to hide or sneak into concerts, and the small club could no longer satisfy audience demand. After the Beatles' farewell gig on 3 August 1963, Bob Wooler gave their future dates to The Mastersounds, a local R&B band, led by Mal Jefferson. The Beatles had graduated from the club and had been signed to EMI 's Parlophone label by producer George Martin . The amount of musical activity in Liverpool and Manchester caused record producers who had previously never ventured very far from London to start looking to
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#17327729286221914-546: The Beatles manager who secured the group's first recording contract, first saw the group perform at the club on 9 November 1961. Inspired by the group, Epstein made moves to take over their management. The Beatles made their first appearance at the club on 9 February 1961 after returning to Liverpool from Hamburg , Germany, where they had been playing at the Indra and the Kaiserkeller clubs. Their stage show had been through
2001-399: The Beatles were responsible as far back as 1963". He cites "She Loves You" as one of the first examples where the Beatles introduced folk chord changes into rock music and so initiated the new genre. These songs were all influential in providing a template for successfully assimilating folk-based chord progressions and melodies into pop music. The song was recorded on 1 July 1963, less than
2088-607: The Cavern Club lost its licence and was closed by the Licensing Authority. In 1991, two friends—schoolteacher Bill Heckle and taxi driver Dave Jones—reopened it, along with George Guinness on 11 July 1991. They still run the club today and are now the longest-running owners in its history. The club continues to function primarily as a live music venue. The music policy varies from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s classic pop music to indie, rock and modern chart music. On 14 December 1999, former Beatle Paul McCartney played
2175-607: The Cavern Club name. It also had a cameo in two John Lennon biopics, 2000's In His Life: The John Lennon Story and 2009's Nowhere Boy , as well as the movie Across the Universe . The poet Roger McGough mentioned the club in his poem "Let Me Die A Youngman's Death": "Or when I'm 104 / and banned from the Cavern / may my mistress / catching me in bed with her daughter / and fearing for her son / cut me up into little pieces and throw away every piece but one." Norwegian Cruise Lines have Cavern Clubs on four of their liners,
2262-607: The English rock band the Beatles , written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released as a single in the United Kingdom on 23 August 1963. The single set and surpassed several sales records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States as one of the five Beatles songs that held the top five positions in the charts simultaneously, on 4 April 1964. It remains the band's best-selling single in
2349-480: The Lee Park Golf Club – asked Dr. Sytner if his son could book The Quarrymen at The Cavern, which was one of three jazz clubs he managed. Dr. Sytner suggested that the band should play at the golf club first, so as to assess their talent. Sytner phoned Walley a week later and offered the band an interlude spot playing skiffle between the performances of two jazz bands on Wednesday, 7 August 1957. Before
2436-517: The New Cavern Club, publicising his new album, Run Devil Run . It has about 40 live bands performing every week; both tribute and original bands, although most perform their own material. The back room of the Cavern is the most frequently used location for touring acts and ticketed events, in more recent times playing host to The Wanted , Adele and Jessie J . The Cavern is also used as a tour warm-up venue with semi-secret gigs announced at
2523-525: The Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris . They recorded new vocals over the original backing track to "I Want to Hold Your Hand;" "Sie liebt dich" was recorded entirely from scratch. Both songs were translated by Luxembourger musician Camillo Felgen , under the pseudonym of "Jean Nicolas" (his full name was Camille Jean Nicolas Felgen). On 23 August 1963, the "She Loves You" single was released in
2610-551: The UK and was the top-selling single of the 1960s there by any artist. In November 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "She Loves You" number 64 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . In August 2009, at the end of its "Beatles Weekend", BBC Radio 2 announced that "She Loves You" was the Beatles' all-time best-selling single in the UK based on information compiled by the Official Charts Company . In Canada,
2697-419: The US, and promptly ordered Vee-Jay to halt their manufacturing and distribution of Beatles records. Epstein, who needed a record label to release "She Loves You" in the US, asked Transglobal to find another label for him, and Transglobal came up with Swan Records . To avoid potential disagreements and lawsuits, the contract signed with Swan licensed to them only "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You", enough only for
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2784-562: The US, featuring "I'll Get You" on the B-side, just like the English-language single. American consumers bought "Sie Liebt Dich" in modest numbers, leading to a chart peak of No. 97 on 27 June. "She Loves You" was included on Capitol Records' US album The Beatles' Second Album , which overtook Meet the Beatles! on 2 May 1964, reaching the top spot in the album charts. It was the first time an artist had replaced themselves at
2871-596: The US. When the Hard Rock Cafe was built in Boston in 1991, it included a brick Cavern Club cellar that was a reproduction of the Liverpool club, including a stage for local bands. In 2006, the Boston restaurant moved to a new location, and although the new restaurant still has a "Cavern Club" performing area, it bears no resemblance to the Liverpool cellar. In 2014, a lawsuit was filed to revoke Hard Rock's trademark on
2958-405: The United Kingdom with " I'll Get You " as the B-side. The songwriting credit on the label was switched to " Lennon–McCartney " for this release – a switch from the "McCartney–Lennon" order of nearly all previous Beatles releases – and would remain this way during the remainder of their songwriting partnership . There was tremendous anticipation ahead of the release. Thousands of fans had ordered
3045-628: The World". The street connects Rainford Gardens (off Whitechapel) to North John Street, and is located in an area of the city centre known today as "The Cavern Quarter". Historically it was the centre of Liverpool's wholesale fruit and vegetable market. The street was originally named Mathew Pluckington Street, after a famous Liverpool merchant . It was also home to the influential music club Eric's , which played host to many famous punk and post-punk bands from its opening in 1976, despite only being open for four years. The fame of Mathew Street led to
3132-540: The arrest of three men in 2006 when an American in Dallas, Texas , viewing the street's webcam , saw a burglary in progress and called Merseyside Police . The psychoanalyst Carl Jung is often cited as visiting Liverpool in 1927, but he only recorded a dream in which he had, later published in Jung's autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections of which he wrote "Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live." As
3219-467: The authentic reconstruction of the Cavern Club within the redevelopment. The Cavern Club now sits at a 90-degree angle to the original and covers 70% of the original Cavern footprint, the stage is not far from the original location, and the 'Live Lounge' is an exact replica of the original, using as many of the old bricks as possible. The fire exit, next to the Cilla Black statue, is the location of
3306-513: The cellar, which had been used as an air raid shelter in World War II. Tropical fruit used to be stored there and during warm months the scent from the ripening fruit was absorbed into the sandstone brickwork. When the club was packed with dancing and smoking teenagers, the heat produced resulted in the bricks sweating and the sweet fruit odour was absorbed into their clothing. After leaving, fans at bus stops could be identified as having visited
3393-613: The club by the pleasant 'Cavern Perfume' on their clothes. The club opened on 16 January 1957 and the first act to perform there was the Merseysippi Jazz Band. Local commercial artist Tony Booth created the poster artwork for the opening night. He later became the original poster artist for the Beatles . What started as a jazz club eventually became a hangout for skiffle groups. Whilst playing golf with Sytner's father, Dr. Joseph Sytner, Nigel Walley – who had left school at 15 to become an apprentice golf professional at
3480-462: The club on a regular basis in the early 1960s. The first Beat Night was held on 25 May 1960 and featured a performance by Rory Storm and the Hurricanes (which included Ringo Starr as drummer). By early 1961, Bob Wooler had become the full-time compère and organiser of the lunchtime sessions. The club hosted its first performance by the Beatles on Thursday, 9 February 1961. Brian Epstein ,
3567-523: The club's closure, making them the last group to perform on stage along with disc jockey Billy Butler and doorman Paddy Delaney, who—with fans—barricaded themselves into the club prior to the authorities' arrival the next morning to gain access. The Hideaways were also proactive along with local MP Bessie Braddock to reopen the Cavern; as a result they were the first group back on stage when the club re-opened on 23 July 1966 with local MP Bessie Braddock and then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The Hideaways also hold
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3654-672: The club. Tickets were sold from The Echo Arena box office, leaving people who had camped overnight on Mathew Street disappointed. Sir Paul McCartney was expected to play only a 45-minute set, but performed for two hours. He opened the show saying "Liverpool! Cavern! These are words that go together well!" and then played a mixed set featuring songs from his upcoming album, Egypt Station . Tribute clubs exist in Dallas , Buenos Aires , Wellington , Exeter , Costa Teguise in Lanzarote , and formerly in Tokyo and Adelaide . A similar looking club
3741-899: The end of January 1964, launching the " British Invasion " of the American music scene and paving the way for more Beatles records and releases by other British artists. In the wake of that success, the Swan "She Loves You" single re-emerged, and entered the Billboard chart on 25 January 1964. Beatlemania took hold of America, spurred by the group's appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, where they performed this among other songs. "She Loves You" spent four weeks at No. 2, behind "I Want to Hold Your Hand", then replaced it for two weeks at No. 1 beginning on 21 March. The Beatles are one of only two artists ever whose first two Hot 100 singles held
3828-499: The following day at McCartney's family home in Forthlin Road , Liverpool . In 2000, McCartney said the initial idea for the song began with Bobby Rydell 's hit "Forget Him" with its call and response pattern , and that "as often happens, you think of one song when you write another ... I'd planned an 'answering song' where a couple of us would sing 'she loves you' and the other ones would answer 'yeah yeah'. We decided that
3915-472: The front room played host to the Cavern Showcase, an organisation and event started by 1960s star Kingsize Taylor , his wife Marga, and best friend Wes Paul. The night took place every Sunday and featured original 1960s bands such as The Mojos and The Undertakers . In November 2008, a campaign to have Gary Glitter 's brick removed from the wall of fame was successful. A brass plaque near where it
4002-566: The group's 1965 or 1966 concert performances. The Beatles later sang the chorus of "She Loves You" in the long fade-out of " All You Need Is Love ", and a carnival-styled organ version of the song is featured in their 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour . "She Loves You" was included in the Beatles compilation albums A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966, not released in the US), 1962–1966 (1973), 20 Greatest Hits (1982), Past Masters, Volume One (1988), and 1 (2000). The song
4089-455: The group's next single as early as June, well before a title had been known. By the day before it went on sale, some 500,000 advanced orders had been placed for it. The single set several British sales records. It entered the charts on 31 August and remained in the charts for 31 consecutive weeks, 18 of those weeks in the top three (including every week of the months of September, October, November and December 1963). During that period, it claimed
4176-573: The last moment. The Arctic Monkeys did this in October 2005, Jake Bugg in November 2013, as well as Travis and Oasis . The front room is the main tourist attraction, where people come to have their photograph taken on the stage, with the names of the bands who played there written on the back wall. This room hosts live music from noon to midnight Monday to Thursday, and noon to close on Fridays and weekend. Between November 2005 and September 2007,
4263-501: The line, "I'm too modest to claim the country loves us, but you know that can't be bad." However, he appeared not to understand the reference, and actually said, "but you know, err, that can't be too bad." On 10 December 1980, following the murder of John Lennon in Manhattan two nights previously, British tabloid newspaper The Sun printed the front-page headline "They Loved Him Yeah Yeah Yeah". In early 1984, Life observed
4350-470: The low 70s, noticeably lower than those songs considered to score well. Overall, it sold approximately 1,000 copies and completely failed to chart on Billboard . On 22 November 1963, the CBS Morning News ran a five-minute feature on Beatlemania in the UK which heavily featured "She Loves You". The evening's scheduled repeat was cancelled following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
4437-728: The music staff of Time Out London ranked the song at number 7 on their list of the best Beatles songs. "She Loves You" was sometimes played by the group during performances on the BBC, and one such recording is included on On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 , released in 2013. A concert performance of the song, recorded at the Prince of Wales Theatre , London, on 4 November 1963, for the Royal Variety Performance , appeared in 1995 on Anthology 1 . Although not one of
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#17327729286224524-429: The narrator functions as a helpful go-between for estranged lovers: You think you lost your love, Well, I saw her yesterday. It's you she's thinking of – And she told me what to say. She says she loves you ... This idea was attributed by Lennon to McCartney in 1980: "It was Paul's idea: instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. That kind of little detail is still in his work. He will write
4611-525: The national CHUM Chart on 2 December 1963. It reached the top five on 23 December, a full month before any Beatles single would do the same in the US charts. It then spent nine weeks at No. 1 in the early part of 1964. "She Loves You" became the first Beatles record to sell well in continental Europe and led to a Beatles tour of Sweden in late October 1963. Before the Beatles' breakthrough with "She Loves You", British acts had only managed sporadic successes in continental European markets. "She Loves You"
4698-485: The new songs that predominated in their July 1964 film debut A Hard Day's Night , it was used as the finale of the concert that closes the movie. "She Loves You" was a staple of the set list of early Beatles tours, and appeared on The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl . By late 1964, it had been dropped in favour of newer songs and the other artists' material that remained in their show. It did not appear in
4785-482: The north. In 1963, young local band The Hideaways were signed up to the newly founded Cavern Club agency and became the resident group, often stepping in for last minute artist cancellations; they also became the first pop group to appear on a nationwide television commercial for Timex Watch Company filmed by the Rank Organisation at the Cavern Club. The band also performed at the Cavern the night prior to
4872-678: The official record of over 400 Cavern Club appearances at both old and new venues and are now recognised and named on the wall of fame. In the decade that followed, a wide variety of popular acts appeared at the club, including the Rolling Stones , the Yardbirds , the Hollies , the Kinks , Elton John , Black Sabbath , Queen , the Who and John Lee Hooker . The song " I Know a Place ",
4959-495: The original club on numerous occasions in their early career. Mathew Street is visited by thousands of tourists a year, who visit the Cavern Club and many surrounding attractions including a statue of John Lennon , a Beatles store, the Liverpool Beatles Museum and several pubs formerly frequented by the band. A wall in Mathew Street is adorned by a sculpture by Arthur Dooley entitled "Four Lads Who Shook
5046-399: The original entrance. The club was taken over by former Liverpool F.C. player Tommy Smith . The new design was to resemble the original as closely as possible. This coincided with a period of massive economic and political change in and around Liverpool and the club survived only until December 1989, when, following a serious assault on a customer which led to jail sentences for the owners,
5133-759: The other." Moreover, it became the signature phrase for the group at the time. The Daily Mirror ' s approving editorial of 5 November 1963, following the Beatles' acclaimed appearance at the Royal Variety Performance the night before, was entitled "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" The New York Times ' lengthy article of 8 February 1964, describing the frenzy accompanying the group's arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport and in New York City, made reference to "Yeah, yeah, yeah" in its first paragraph, continuation headline, and closing paragraph. An Associated Press story describing
5220-464: The performance, the Quarrymen argued amongst themselves about the set list, as rock 'n roll songs were definitely not allowed at the club but skiffle was tolerated. After opening with a skiffle song, John Lennon called for the others to start playing an Elvis Presley song, " Don't Be Cruel ". Rod Davis warned Lennon that the audience would "eat you alive", but Lennon ignored this and started playing
5307-468: The phrase in description of the group. Clinton Heylin remarked that the chorus "no, no, no" in Bob Dylan 's 1964 song " It Ain't Me, Babe " was taken as a parody of the Beatles' "yeah, yeah, yeah" in "She Loves You". The melody in both phrases uses a scale descending through a minor third . In the 22 January 1965, Flintstones episode "The Hatrocks and The Gruesomes", as new hillbilly neighbors,
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#17327729286225394-493: The plans to excavate and re-open the Cavern Club in its original form would be impossible for structural reasons. Tests had revealed that the arches of the old cellar had been too badly damaged during the demolition of the ground floor of the Cavern Club and the warehouses above. 5,000 bricks from the damaged archways of the original cellar area of the Cavern Club went on sale at £5 each, complete with an authentication plate signed by former Cavern Club owner Ray McFall. Proceeds from
5481-479: The positive critical reaction to the group's film A Hard Day's Night was headlined "'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' For Beatles' Film" and labelled "She Loves You" as "the original 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,' song". The phrase became synonymous not just with the Beatles but with the associated kind of popular music overall. A New York Times account describing the Animals ' introductory concert in the city later that year repeated
5568-429: The ranking of number one on 14 September, stayed number one for four weeks, dropped back to the top three, then regained the top spot for two weeks starting on 30 November. This regaining of the top spot was very unusual at the time. It then made its way back into the charts for two weeks on 11 April 1964, peaking at No. 42. It passed sales of a half million copies by early June and a million by late November, whereupon it
5655-453: The sale of the 5,000 bricks went to Strawberry Field Children's home. Before the Cavern Club's opening ceremony, over 100 musicians from the 1960s Mersey Beat era were invited to sign the wall at the back of the Cavern's stage, a tradition which began in the early days of the Jazz bands in the 1950s and continued through the '60s and '70s. A further 15,000 bricks from the Cavern site were used on
5742-541: The same day and the four days' worth of news coverage that followed. Coincidental with the song's climb up the Canadian charts on 10 December, Walter Cronkite decided to transmit the piece again on the CBS Evening News , and the resulting interest led to the rush-release of " I Want to Hold Your Hand "—only weeks before the Beatles' arrival —on 26 December 1963. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" climbed to No. 1 by
5829-403: The sense of musical power that the record provides. The lead vocal is sung by Lennon and McCartney, switching between unison and harmony. George Martin , the Beatles' producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison . "They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George [Harrison] doing
5916-424: The sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord. It was just like a Glenn Miller arrangement." The device had also been used by country music-influenced artists in the 1950s. McCartney later reflected: "We took it to George Martin and sang 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeeaah ...' and that tight little sixth cluster we had at the end. George [Martin] said: 'It's very corny, I would never end on
6003-489: The song himself, forcing the others to join in. Halfway through, Sytner pushed his way through the audience and handed Lennon a note which read, "Cut out the bloody rock 'n roll". Paul McCartney 's first appearance at The Cavern was with The Quarrymen on 24 January 1958. George Harrison first played at The Cavern during a lunchtime session on 9 February 1961. Sytner sold the Cavern Club to Ray McFall in 1959 and moved to London. Blues bands and beat groups began to appear at
6090-573: The song in a famous speech about copying culture from the Western world, by using the refrain: "Is it truly the case that we have to copy every dirt that comes from the West? I think, comrades, with the monotony of the yeah, yeah, yeah and whatever it is all called, yes, we should put an end to it". British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home made a gaffe in February 1964: his speechwriters, trying to make him appear in touch with popular culture, wrote him
6177-500: The song starts with the hook right away, instead of introducing it after a verse or two. "She Loves You" does not include a bridge, instead using the refrain to join the various verses. The chords tend to change every two measures, and the harmonic scheme is mostly static. The arrangement starts with a two-count from Starr on the drums, and his fills are an important part of the record throughout. The electric instruments are mixed higher than before, especially McCartney's bass, adding to
6264-413: The song was completed: "We went into the living room and said 'Dad, listen to this. What do you think? And he said 'That's very nice son, but there's enough of these Americanisms around. Couldn't you sing 'She loves you, yes, yes, yes!' At which point we collapsed in a heap and said 'No, Dad, you don't quite get it!'" EMI recording engineer Norman Smith had a somewhat similar reaction, later recounting, "I
6351-704: The song was included on the album Twist and Shout . In the US, it was the final song on The Beatles' Second Album . Lennon and McCartney started composing "She Loves You" on 26 June 1963 after a concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle upon Tyne during their tour with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the Pacemakers . They began writing the song on the tour bus, and continued later that night at their hotel in Newcastle eventually completing it
6438-460: The summit of the American album charts, and this provided a hint of the successes the Beatles would continue to achieve. Unlike Capitol Records' reluctance to proceed with the Beatles in the US, its Canadian subsidiary, Capitol of Canada, went ahead with the group, and "She Loves You" was released there in September 1963. It was played by Ontario radio station CKWS the next month, and entered
6525-511: The top two positions simultaneously on that chart. During its fifteen-week run on the American charts, "She Loves You" was joined by four other Beatles songs at the top five in the American charts and became part of the group setting several all-time records for the Hot 100 . Billboard ranked the record as the No. 2 song of 1964, behind "I Want to Hold Your Hand", making the Beatles the second act to hold
6612-475: The top two year-end record positions since Elvis Presley did it in 1956 with " Heartbreak Hotel " and " Don't Be Cruel ". When Beatlemania reached the US, the record labels holding rights to Beatle songs re-released them in various combinations. Swan claimed to own the rights to "Sie Liebt Dich", the German version of "She Loves You", although they did not. On 21 May 1964, "Sie Liebt Dich" was released by Swan in
6699-544: Was " From Me to You ", which lasted three weeks in August 1963, never going higher than No. 116 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Capitol Records had been stubborn in turning down the chance to become their record label in the US, and consequently the Beatles had been with Vee-Jay Records until that label failed to pay their royalties on time. Transglobal Music , an affiliate of EMI , held the licences to their output in
6786-409: Was a crummy idea but at least we then had the idea of a song called 'She Loves You'. So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it – John and I, sitting on twin beds with guitars." Like many early Beatles songs, the title of "She Loves You" was framed around the use of personal pronouns . But unusually for a love song, the lyrics are not about the narrator's love for someone else; instead
6873-481: Was also featured in the opening sequence of the film Across the Universe , in homage to the Beatles' beginnings, though the club's name was never mentioned. The footage for this scene was actually shot in the Cavern Club itself. The Cavern Club is the first playable location in The Beatles: Rock Band . The Hard Rock Cafe restaurant and hotel chain owns the trademark to the "Cavern Club" name in
6960-501: Was also included on the American promotional version of the Rarities album, issued as the bonus disc in the limited edition boxed set The Beatles Collection , in November 1978. The Capitol Records' US album, The Beatles' Second Album , on which the song had been featured, was included in the 2004 CD release The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 and rereleased in 2014, individually and in the boxed set The US Albums . "Sie Liebt Dich"
7047-493: Was awarded a gold record . The song's run on the charts coincided with the 13 October 1963 performance of the group on Sunday Night at the London Palladium and the emergence of full-blown Beatlemania in the United Kingdom . "She Loves You" was the best-selling single of 1963, and is the Beatles' all-time best-selling single in the UK. It was the best-selling single of any artist in the UK for 14 years until it
7134-591: Was finally released in 2023 as part of the expanded edition of the 1962–1966 compilation album. The German division of EMI (the parent of the Beatles' British record label Parlophone Records ) decided that the only way to sell Beatles records in Germany would be to re-record them in the German language . The band thought it unnecessary, but were asked by George Martin to comply, recording " Sie liebt dich " on 29 January 1964, along with "Komm, gib mir deine Hand", at
7221-484: Was included on both the 1978 British Rarities and the 1980 American Rarities as well as on Past Masters, Volume One . The 2009 CD rerelease of the Beatles' catalog included "She Loves You" and "Sie Liebt Dich" on Past Masters (mono and stereo, respectively) and on Mono Masters (mono). Paul McCartney sang "We love you, yeah, yeah, yeah" at the end of his duet with Stevie Wonder titled "What's That You're Doing?" from Tug of War . McCartney has not played
7308-407: Was located notes that the bricks of two former Cavern Club performers—Glitter and Jonathan King —have been removed. In 2017, the Cavern commissioned Tony Booth , the artist who designed all the original posters and signage for the original club, to produce 60th anniversary artwork which portrays bands and musicians who performed there. Also in 2017, a statue of Cilla Black commissioned by her sons
7395-456: Was setting up the microphone when I first saw the lyrics on the music stand, 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah!' I thought, Oh my God, what a lyric! This is going to be one that I do not like. But when they started to sing it – bang, wow, terrific, I was up at the mixer jogging around." The "yeah, yeah, yeah" refrain proved an immediate, infectious musical hook . Unusually,
7482-403: Was surpassed by Wings ' " Mull of Kintyre " (written by McCartney and Denny Laine ). As of November 2022, "She Loves You" was the ninth best-selling single of all time in the UK, with sales of 1.93 million copies. The group's lack of success in the US puzzled the Beatles' producer George Martin and manager Brian Epstein , given their huge hits in the UK. Their only US release that had charted
7569-484: Was unveiled outside the Cavern's original entrance. In June 2018, Sir Paul McCartney came back to the Cavern Club. During a Facebook Live Q&A session in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), McCartney hinted that he would perform a secret gig the following day. At 9 a.m. on 26 June it was announced via his Facebook page and the Cavern Club's Facebook page that Paul would be returning to
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