| "And I Love Her" | ||||
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| Song by The Beatles
from the album A Hard Day's Night |
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| Released | 10 July 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 25–27 February 1964 Abbey Road Studios |
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:32 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Writer | Lennon/McCartney | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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"And I Love Her"
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| Single by The Beatles | ||||
| B-side | "If I Fell" | |||
| Released | 20 July 1964 (US) | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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"And I Love Her" is a song recorded by The Beatles and is the fifth track on their third album, A Hard Day's Night. It was released 20 July 1964 with "If I Fell" as a single by Capitol Records in the United States, reaching #12 in Billboard.
The Beatles performed "And I Love Her" just once outside of Abbey Road Studios. On 14 July 1964 they played it for an edition of the BBC's Top Gear radio show, which was broadcast two days later.[1 ]
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This song was one of the first ballads with a title that starts in mid-sentence. Paul McCartney was pleased with himself that he came up with this idea.
A majority of this song switches back and forth between the key of E and its relative minor C#m. It also changes keys altogether just before the solo, to F. It ends, on the parallel major of the key of F's relative minor, D. This technique is known as tierce picarde and had been used in the past by some composers, including Bach.
The song was written mainly by McCartney, though John Lennon claimed in an interview with Playboy that his major contribution was the "middle eight" section ("A love like ours/Could never die/As long as I/Have you near me").
Beatles publisher Dick James lends support to this claim, saying that the middle eight was added during recording at the suggestion of producer George Martin. According to James, Lennon called for a break and "within half an hour [Lennon and McCartney] wrote...a very constructive middle to a very commercial song."[2 ]
McCartney, on the other hand, maintains that "the middle eight is mine.... I wrote this on my own."[2 ]
Different edits of this song have been released throughout the world; these differ in the number of times the closing guitar riff is repeated, and in McCartney's lead vocal being single or double-tracked in the main verses of the song. The version on the movie A Hard Day's Night is half a step lower (but true speed) than the album version (half a step speed up).
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