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The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Studio album by Brand New
Released
November 21, 2006
Recorded
March 2005 – April 2006
Studio
Cove City, Glen Cove, New York;
Longview Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts;
Sapone Studios, Bethpage, New York
Genre
Alternative rock[1]
emo[1]
post-hardcore[1]
Length
54:51
Label
Interscope
Tiny Evil
Procrastinate! Music Traitors
Producer
Mike Sapone
Brand New
Brand New chronology
The Holiday EP
(2003)The Holiday EP2003 The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
(2006) Daisy
(2009)Daisy2009
Singles from
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
"Sowing Season"
Released: November 21, 2006
"Jesus Christ"
Released: April 30, 2007
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is the third studio album by American rock band Brand New. It was released on November 21, 2006, through Interscope Records, making it their major label debut. Recorded from 2005-2006 in studios on Long Island and Massachusetts with producer Mike Sapone, the album arose following the online leaking of several unfinished demos that were meant to be early blueprints of an upcoming record. Two singles from the album were released – "Sowing Season" on November 21, 2006, and "Jesus Christ" on April 30, 2007. The album peaked at #31 on the Billboard 200, becoming the band's highest-charting record at the time of its release.
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me received positive reviews from critics initially, with many music publications pronouncing it as one of the best albums of the decade.[2][3][4] Its legacy has grown immensely in the years since, and it is now credited as one of the most important and influential albums in the genres of alternative rock, post-hardcore and emo by fellow musicians, critics and music writers.[5] Considered Brand New's best work by various sources including the band itself,[6] the album was acclaimed for further foraying away from the adolescent, breakup-based lyricism of their 2001 debut Your Favorite Weapon, continuing their progression and maturity as lyricists and songwriters by delving into darker subject matters such as existentialism, death, depression and religion.[7] Musically, Brand New abandoned their pop punk origins and added in elements of indie rock, experimental rock and post-hardcore. The band embarked on a tour in 2016 to specifically commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the album's release, playing the seminal album in its entirety.[8]
Contents
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1 Background and recording
1.1 Leaked demos
2 Music and influence
2.1 Lyrical content
3 Title and artwork
4 Release and promotion
4.1 Original release and touring
4.2 Vinyl release and lyric booklets
5 Critical reception
6 Commercial performance
7 Legacy and influence
8 Track listing
9 Personnel
10 Charts
11 Release history
12 References
13 External links
Background and recording[edit]
In mid-2004 after five years of regular touring and recording as Brand New, its members decided to take time off and concentrate on returning to their lives and pursuing other projects. At this point, the band had already written and recorded "10 or 11 songs" that they believed would form the next album.[9] In late 2005 when the band reunited to continue work on the album they found that the music they were writing was entirely different to the tracks they had previously recorded for the album, leading them to start over.[9]
"I don’t think that in our short recording career we have followed a path. It’s whatever comes out at that point. A song is never pushed into a direction. In ways, I think this is a record apart from the last record, but there are still certain aspects that they have in common. It’s always surprising to us, as we don’t know how it’s going to sound until we’ve written a few songs."
Jesse Lacey, Brand New lyricist and vocalist, talking about the band's stylistic progression on their third record[10]
When the band reentered the recording studio they began working with producer Dennis Herring in Oxford, Mississippi. Lacey recalled that Herring understood exactly what the band were trying to do with the album, but due to time constraints and lack of money they instead opted to work with Mike Sapone, with whom they had worked with on their first album. Sapone acted more as a "fifth or sixth bandmember" than as a producer, Lacey recalled, which allowed the band the involvement and control over the production that they were looking for, as well as allowing the band freedom to be more experimental.[11] Throughout the writing and recording, Jesse Lacey, Vincent Accardi, Garrett Tierney, Brian Lane and Derrick Sherman were each plagued with death and illness amongst their families and friends. Lacey recalled that each of them had become a little too comfortable with the idea of a funeral.[12]
Recording with Sapone took place over the winter of 2005 through until the spring of 2006 at Longview Farm and later Cove City and Sapone's studio in the basement of his house.[13]
Live guitarist Derrick Sherman who had been touring with the band for some time was also present during the recording sessions, contributing parts to all of the album's tracks.[14][15] After the initial scrapped album session from 2004 and leaked demos in 2006 the band had written and recorded around forty tracks for the album.[15]
As the band's first release on a major label, the band expressed hesitancy and nervousness over their increased fame. In an interview with their street team, Tierney said his biggest fear was "get[ting] too big", while Lacey's was that he was "scared of the hype" and "scared of people who never heard our band trying to sell it to people who are, you know, breathing it already."[16]
Leaked demos[edit]
Main article: Leaked Demos 2006
"In one way it was kind of refreshing and motivating to know that people were still so interested and curious as to what we were up to in that period where we sort of disappeared. But I was also worried that it would derail the process because the four of us had created a pretty safe place where the only critics were ourselves. As much as we tried to shield ourselves from letting the leak affect us, it definitely did. There was a feeling of being robbed, after keeping everything so close to ourselves and then having it heard before it was completed."
Brand New guitarist Vincent Accardi speaking about the leak of the demos[17]
On January 24, 2006, nine untitled demos for the album leaked onto the Internet. The band was disappointed to hear of the leak; however, they had been performing demos of the album's tracks at live shows.
Four of the demos went on to be officially released and/or re-recorded. "Untitled 8" was reworked into the album's opening track "Sowing Season" and "Untitled 6 (also known as "Mamas") later became "Luca". The original version of "Luca" was also released as the album's bonus track in the UK as "Luca (Reprisal Version)".
"Untitled 3" was later released as "Brothers", the B-side to "Jesus Christ". Additionally, an alternate version of "Brothers" was released as "aloC-acoC", the B-side to "Sowing Season" ("Coca-Cola" backwards, most likely spelled as such to avoid trademark infringement). "Untitled 7" was re-recorded and released as the single "(Fork and Knife)".
Music writer Channing Freeman of Sputnikmusic commended the band for their reaction to the leaks, praising them for starting over and recording original tracks that showed more growth and development than the demos. "It was probably the best thing that could have happened to Brand New," he said, "because it forced them to rewrite the album with an even greater purpose and attention to detail."[18]
Colloquially referred to by fans as Fight Off Your Demons,[19] the batch of leaked demos were remastered, given titles and officially released to the public on December 2, 2015 as Leaked Demos 2006, made available digitally and on cassette.[20] On July 13, 2016, the band released 3 Demos, Reworked, an EP that consisted of re-recorded versions of "Brother's Song", "Missing You" and "1996", previously known as "Untitled 3", "Untitled 4" and "Untitled 2" on Fight Off Your Demons, respectively.[21]
Music and influence[edit]
Vocalist and guitarist Jesse Lacey wrote lyrics for all of the album's tracks with the exception of "Handcuffs", which was written by Vincent Accardi. The tracks "Degausser" and "Sowing Season" were composed spontaneously as a band, whilst Accardi composed the music for "Handcuffs", "Not the Sun" and "Welcome to Bangkok", with Lacey writing the rest.[15]
"I'm getting depressed with all of the anxiety about the album, and they say I write my best stuff when I'm in that state. Great, I'll spend the next six months all depressed and the rest of the band will be excited so that some good [material] might come out. And then I have to contend with how it's received."
Vocalist Jesse Lacey on how his depression impacted the album's writing
Death and illness became two of the main themes present on the record. In an interview Lacey commented that the band purposely immersed themselves in the loss of friends and family in order to channel it into their songwriting and expel it.[12] The liner notes dedicate the album to "Robert Sherman, Red Lacey, Leo Lacey, Bill and Virginia Sherman, James McAuliffe, Rosemary Kancelerski, Frances Ambrosio, Manfred Cardone III, Sid Rosen, Seymour Lane, Michelle Lane, George Moe, Alexander Lambros, and Omir Ortega, all of whom left us between the start and completion of the record."[13]
Lyrical content[edit]
Lacey suffered from depression during the writing stage of the album due to anxiety revolving around the high expectations put upon the band following the critical success of Deja Entendu.[22]
As with previous Brand New records, Lacey drew inspiration from popular culture and literature for his lyrics. Lacey also wrote about subjects that he would discuss with his friend Kevin Devine, with some of Lacey's lyrics directly responding to questions that Devine would ask him during writing.[23]
The second verse to opening track "Sowing Season" is inspired by the Rudyard Kipling poem If— whilst the title of "Sowing Season" is a reference from Stephen King's novel Secret Window, Secret Garden, where the main character had written a short story of the same title. The song deals with topics such as death (as per the notable opening line of the album, "was losing all my friends, was losing them to drinking and to driving") and the desire to better oneself.[24]
"Millstone", track two, is described by Sputnikmusic as being about "not a loss of hope but rather a loss of innocence"[25], citing lines such as "I used to pray that God was listening / I used to make my parents proud" as examples of such. "Jesus Christ" is about "analyzing crises of faith" in a conversation with God,[26] making references to Biblical figures such as Thomas the Apostle and Elijah. Its lyrics touch on loneliness, the validity of the afterlife and the struggle to maintain faith, influenced by Lacey's religious upbringing and his attending of the South Shore Christian School during his adolescence.[27] The single's artwork pays homage to the album Goat by The Jesus Lizard.[28]
Fourth track "Degausser" borrows the lyric "Take apart the demon, in the attic to the left" from the Roky Erickson track "Bloody Hammer".[29] The song is rumored to be about fellow musician Sherri DuPree of the band Eisley, an ex-girlfriend of Lacey's who rejected his marriage proposal and ended up marrying Max Bemis, the lead singer of Say Anything, instead.[26]
Fifth song on the album "Limousine" is about the death of seven-year-old Katie Flynn from the band's hometown of Long Island.[30] Travelling home with her family after a wedding, their limousine was hit by drunk driver Martin Heidgen, a few miles from where Lacey was living at the time, leading to the decapitation of the young Flynn, whose severed head fell into her mother's arms.[29] In the track, Lacey tells the story from various perspectives, including that of Flynn's mother, Heidgen and Flynn herself.[23][31] Lacey has commented that the story particularly resonated with him as he knew people who drove drunk the week the accident took place.[29] Producer Mike Sapone had the idea to include samples of explosions in the track, hence the subtitle "MS Rebridge", with MS being Sapone's initials.[29] At seven minutes and forty-two seconds, it remained Brand New's longest song until 2017's "Batter Up," which is eight minutes and twenty-eight seconds long. The track's bridge repeats itself seven times as Lacey counts up, one for each year of Flynn's life.[31] "Limousine" is often cited as Brand New's greatest song.[31][32]
Writing for Team Rock, Mischa Pearlman believed the title and lyrics of "Luca" reference the fictional character Luca Brasi of the 1972 American crime film The Godfather.[32] "The Archers' Bows Have Broken" is described as being about people who use religion for self-serving purposes instead of the intentions of the prophets, including in politics. Its aural traits include "the sound of nihilism and religion converging, and the world burning down as a result."[32]
Title and artwork[edit]
"The phrase itself was pretty cool, and reading it somewhere else would be striking, so that was what drew me to it, but listening back to the album I realised how much it represents quiet and loud, the good and evil, but it also has a lot to do with faith and some spiritual aspects of the band."
— Jesse Lacey discussing the album's title[23]
The name of the album came from a conversation Jesse Lacey had with a friend regarding Daniel Johnston, a musician who suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.[23]
The album cover is a picture titled "Untitled #44" from Nicholas Prior's "Age of Man" collection which the band saw at an art show in New York City.[33] The outside of the cardboard case contains no song listings, and doesn't contain the name of the album or the band name anywhere but on the spine. The record company instead placed stickers on the plastic wrapping to indicate the name of the album and band, and on the UK version to indicate that it had the bonus track.
Release and promotion[edit]
Original release and touring[edit]
In June and July 2006, the band went on their first tour in three years,[34] during which, they debuted "Sowing Season", "Deguasser" and "You Won't Know".[35] The album was announced September 10, 2006.[36][37] On October 5, the album's title and track listing was revealed.[35] From mid October to early December, the band went on a U.S. tour alongside Dashboard Confessional.[38] On October 18, the album's cover art was revealed.[39] Two days later, "Sowing Season" was made available for streaming via the band's Myspace account.[40] Throughout October and November the band performed a series of in-store acoustic gigs.[39] On November 14, "Degausser" was made available for streaming via the band's PureVolume account.[41] The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me was made available for streaming on November 20,[42] and released a day later through Interscope.[35] The album was original planned to be released on DreamWorks, but the label was folded into Interscope.[34] People that pre-ordered the album received a CD single of "Sowing Season" with the B-side "Coca Cola".[39] People that pre-ordered the album from BestBuy were able to download a video for "--".[43]
In January 2007, the band announced they were in the process of making a music video.[43] In February, the band went on their first UK tour in three years.[44] After touring and promoting previous record Déjà Entendu, the band became increasingly reluctant to give interviews or talk to the press in promotion of the record.[45] In one of a few exceptions during the UK tour, Lacey discussed that this was due to many journalists and publications misrepresenting and taking quotes out of context in order to make their interviews more interesting.[46] Lacey also felt "more comfortable" not having to worry about photo shoots and music videos and instead just concentrate on writing and performing music.[47] Few television, radio or online performances were given either. Lead singer Jesse Lacey was interviewed by WFNX on 24 April 2007 at the First Act Guitar Studio, Boston as part of an acoustic performance for VW Green Room that was subsequently made available to download.[29][48] The track "Jesus Christ" was performed on both NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS.
In March and April 2007, the band went on a tour of the U.S.[49] "Jesus Christ" was released to radio on March 27.[50] The song peaked at #30 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, beating the #37 peak of "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" to become the band's biggest hit on alternative radio.[51] In July and August, Lacey went on a solo tour with Kevin Devine and Grace Read.[52] From mid October to mid December, the band went on a tour of the U.S. with Thrice and MewithoutYou.[53] A music video for "Jesus Christ" directed by Moh Azima was produced; however, it was never used by the band. Originally made available in 2009 before being taken down, Azima made the video available to stream on his own website in January 2012.[54]
"Sowing Season" was included in the 2009 rhythm music game Guitar Hero 5.[55] A live fancam performances of "Sowing Season" from the band's show at The Academy in Newcastle in February 2012 was made available by O2, with another performance from Brasil in July 2014.[56][57]
Vinyl release and lyric booklets[edit]
After a July 30, 2008 solo show, Lacey stated that the long wait for the vinyl release of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me was due primarily to the band's failure to secure the rights of Nicholas Prior's photograph. Lacey continued on saying that after the band either secured the rights to the picture, or chose an alternate cover, only then would the album be released on vinyl. The band managed to secure the rights to the image by 2010, and released the album on vinyl in that same year.
On January 11, 2010, Brand New announced via their Twitter account that The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me would be released as a double vinyl LP set through Procrastinate! Music Traitors and Triple Crown Records.[58] This version included a lyric sheet that was not included with the original CD. The vinyl set was made available in stores on March 23, 2010.[59] Another pressing of the album was done by Academy Fight Song, which went up for pre-order on their website on May 17, 2010. This pressing was released on September 17, 2010.[60] The album was repressed by Music on Vinyl in late 2013.
Upon the album's release, the band requested in the liner notes for fans to send them $1 in the mail to receive a lyric booklet. In April 2015 the band began sending out lyric booklets to fans that had sent them $1 nine years previously. The first pressing of the lyric booklets titled Pogolith 000 contained a number of stickers, patches and a poster alluding to the release of the leaked demos from the album.[61][62] A second "no thrills" version was subsequently made available at the band's merchandise kiosk at shows and on their website.[63]
Critical reception[edit]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source
Rating
Metacritic 78/100[64]
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic [65]
Alternative Press [66]
Blender [67]
The Boston Phoenix [68]
Entertainment Weekly B−[69]
The Guardian [70]
NME 8/10[71]
Pitchfork 8.5/10[72]
Rolling Stone [73]
Spin [74]
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 17 reviews.[64] Critics emphasized the album's artistic leap in songwriting from the band's previous records.[65][67]
Channing Freeman, a Sputnikmusic staff member, gave the album a perfect five stars, firmly declaring "there are hundreds of albums to which I am connected in unique ways but this is the only one that asks me big questions, expects big answers, and does not hold it against me when I come up with the same old pile of bullshit that I always do."[75] Praising "Limousine" as Lacey's best song lyrically and a "pinnacle of modern songwriting"[18] along with "Degausser", "Sowing Season" and "You Won't Know", Freeman stated that the album "features one of the largest progressions I have ever seen from a band... most bands don't show that sort of growth even once throughout their career, but Brand New have done it twice."[18]
Writing for AllMusic, Corey Apar called the record "dark and dense, yet accessible, a shadowy air permeating every crevice where Jesse Lacey's plaintive and often tortured lyrics aren't already residing." believing the album would give them to opportunity to break into the mainstream if they wanted to.[65] Alternative Press highlighted how there was not a song on the album that could even be compared to material from their debut Your Favorite Weapon, whilst only "Not the Sun" and "Archers" bared any resemblance to material from Déjà Entendu believing the album to be dark, difficult, depressing and desolate, "Devil is the sound of four men hitting absolute rock bottom and desperately trying to rescue themselves through any means necessary; we as listeners are forced to hear the band suffer as a means to reach catharsis-all presumably for our edification" likening it to Modest Mouse and Radiohead's The Bends.[66] Ben Sisario of Blender proclaimed the album to be "as creepy as it is magnificent" hailing Lacey's ability to write songs that "teeter between the gorgeously placid and the exhilaratingly hideous, Lacey leads a bipolar odyssey of blood and guts and desperate prayer".[67] Andrew Blackie of PopMatters praised the album, calling it "certainly more mature, putting breakup and self-infliction clichés, thankfully, behind them".[76]
Commercial performance[edit]
The album debuted at #31 on the Billboard 200,[77] in comparison to the #63 debut of their prior album Deja Entendu. It sold 60,000 copies in its first week.[78] It also peaked at #5 on Billboard's Digital Albums Chart.[79] A 2014 vinyl repressing of the album led to a #10 peak on the August 23, 2014 edition on the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart.[80]
Legacy and influence[edit]
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is Brand New's most critically acclaimed record and frequently considered to be their best album. During a 2012 interview, Lacey said the album "saved Brand New", calling it a "course correction" for the band's musical path.[81] In 2016, ten years after its release, Lacey mentioned this album as a particularly important work for the band, and one that they "still use as a measuring post with which we compare the music we make now".[82]
It was rated the best album of 2006 by Punknews [4] and placed at number 74 in NME's list of the one-hundred best albums of the 2000s.[2] Sputnikmusic's ranked the album #20 on their list of the Top 100 Best Albums of the 2000s, as voted by staff members,[3] and it was ranked at number 16 in Kerrang!'s "50 Albums You Need to Hear Before You Die" list.[83]
The tenth anniversary of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me spawned several discussions regarding the album's legacy on Brand New, on the genres of post-hardcore, indie rock and emo, and on music as a whole. In a retrospective review, Ian Cohen of Pitchfork said that "by leaving his words and intentions up to interpretation, Lacey unwittingly shifted from a minor celebrity to a generational voice", giving the album an 8.5 out of 10 and comparing it to other critically acclaimed indie rock records of the 2000s such as Kid A and The Moon & Antarctica.[28] Nina Corcoran of Consequence of Sound credited Brand New for "end[ing] the need to feel ashamed for connecting to emo", noting that the album's influence "altered the path of emo and alternative rock bands at large, blurred genre lines and bolded something beyond the band."[84] In an article titled "The Immortality of Brand New's 'The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me'", Vice staff writer Ryan Bassil declared "by cutting to the core of the darkest elements of the human experience, never answering any questions, but presenting the feeling within them, it is a record that has the ability to grow with the listener, gaining more and more significance as life goes on." [85] Matt Tolander of Medium stated that the album is "one of the most gripping and spiritually honest recordings ever put to tape, more appropriately compared to The Joshua Tree or Slow Train Coming than Tell All Your Friends or Bleed American."[86]
Fellow musicians also commented on the album's influence and legacy. Tour mate and friend of the band Kevin Devine reflected on the first time he heard the track "Jesus Christ", praising it as "the best song [Brand New] had ever written... emotionally, educationally, intellectually, structurally, in every way".[84] Labeling "Degausser" and "You Won't Know" as other album highlights, Devine referred to the bridge of "Not the Sun" as "[his] favorite minute of music in their catalog" and the album's legacy as "The Dark Side of the Moon but for emo", a comparison that he did not expect upon first listen.[84] Andy Hull, frontman of American indie rock band Manchester Orchestra, complimented Lacey on being "a very clever songwriter", while guitarist Mike Weiss of mewithoutYou compared the influence of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me to that of Nirvana's Nevermind in how it "acted as sort of a pioneering watermark for musical genres that existed in our country", noting how it "broke the barrier [and]... destroyed that entire limitation, that boundary - and that is the importance of this record."[84] Dustin Kensrue, lead singer of the American post-hardcore band Thrice, included his rendition of "Jesus Christ" on his live covers album Thoughts That Float on A Different Blood, and introduced the song live as "by a band that has been a kindred spirit in the past years", with the song being "an example of some of that" during his December 16, 2015 concert in Santa Ana.[87] Pop singer Halsey has referred to Brand New and this album in particular as a major influence, once referencing the title of this album in her Instagram biography.[88]
The album's cover art, "Untitled #44" by Nicholas Prior, has been regarded as "iconic".[89] The young girl depicted in the image, four years old when the picture was taken, was seventeen at the time of the record's tenth anniversary. When discussing her opinions on being the subject of such a notable image, Prior answered, "She’s seen her likeness in stores, on T-shirts and tattooed on people’s arms... while it’s always meant something positive to her, I think the significance of it grows and evolves and she does."[89] In a text to Prior, the girl replied, "The album art contributes a lot to the music's meaning, so by simply being in the photo, I feel like I’m contributing to an emotion felt by [their] fans. I consider myself a small part of the vehicle to help people learn more about themselves and what they love, which is a real honor."[89]
In August 2016, Brand New announced that they would be touring the United States in the autumn with Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms as supporting acts, playing smaller cities and venues that were not covered on the band's summer tour with Modest Mouse.[90] A month later, as the band postponed the release of their unreleased fifth album from 2016 to 2017, they announced that they would be playing the entirety of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me on the tour, honoring the tenth anniversary of their most important album.[91]
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Jesse Lacey; all music composed by Lacey, except where noted.
No.
Title
Lyrics
Music
Length
1. "Sowing Season" Vin Accardi, Lacey 4:31
2. "Millstone" 4:16
3. "Jesus Christ" 5:18
4. "Degausser" Accardi, Lacey, Brian Lane, Garrett Tierney 5:32
5. "Limousine (MS Rebridge)" 7:42
6. "You Won't Know" 5:42
7. "Welcome to Bangkok" Accardi 3:05
8. "Not the Sun" Accardi, Lacey 3:09
9. "Luca" 5:08
10. "--" 2:04
11. "The Archers' Bows Have Broken" 4:14
12. "Handcuffs" Accardi Accardi 4:10
[show]UK bonus track
No.
Title
Length
13. "Luca" (Reprisal Version) 4:02
Note: Certain copies of the album refer to track 1 as "Sowing Season (Yeah)", track 3 as "Jesus", track 5 as "Limousine" and track 11 as "Archers".[92]
Personnel[edit]
Brand New
Jesse Lacey – vocals, rhythm guitar
Vincent Accardi – lead guitar, backing vocals
Garrett Tierney – bass
Brian Lane – drums, percussion
Derrick Sherman – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Production and recording
Mike Sapone – production
Brand New – production
Claudius Mittendorfer – recording
R. Peterson – additional recording
Rich Costey – mixing
Emily Lazer – mastering
Sarah Register – mastering
L. Wood – A&R
Additional musicians
Irina Yalkowsky – theremin on "Luca"
Ron Piscitello – percussion
Brent Arnold – Cello on “Handcuffs”
Margaret White – Viola
Art and design
Jason Noto – art direction and layout
Morning Breath Inc. – art direction and layout
Jesse Lacey – photographs
Brand New – photographs
Borucki – photographs
N. Prior – cover
E. DeAngelis – skeletons
Charts[edit]
Chart
Peak
position
United Kingdom (Official Album Chart) 77[93]
United States (Billboard 200) 31[77]
United States (Billboard Digital Albums Chart) 5[79]
United States (Billboard Top Vinyl Albums) 10[80]
Release history[edit]
Country
Date
Label
Format
Catalog #
United Kingdom November 20, 2006 Interscope/Tiny Evil CD (with bonus track) 602517174528
United States November 21, 2006 CD B0008034-02
March 23, 2010 Procrastinate! Music Traitors/
Triple Crown/Interscope/Tiny Evil double LP 3099-1
September 17, 2010 Academy Fight Song double LP B0013946-01
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I Want to Hold Your Hand
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"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
from the album Meet the Beatles!
B-side
"This Boy" (UK)
"I Saw Her Standing There" (US)
Released
29 November 1963 (1963-11-29) (UK)
26 December 1963 (1963-12-26) (US)
Format
7"
Recorded
17 October 1963,
EMI Studios, London
Genre
Rock and roll[1]
pop[2]
pop rock[3]
Length
2:24
Label
Parlophone R 5084 (UK)
Capitol 5112 (US)
Songwriter(s)
Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)
George Martin
The Beatles UK singles chronology
"She Loves You"
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(1964)
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"She Loves You"
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"I Want to Hold Your Hand" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and recorded in October 1963, it was the first Beatles record to be made using four-track equipment.
With advance orders exceeding one million copies in the United Kingdom, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" would have gone straight to the top of the British record charts on its day of release (29 November 1963) had it not been blocked by the group's first million seller "She Loves You", their previous UK single, which was having a resurgence of popularity following intense media coverage of the group. Taking two weeks to dislodge its predecessor, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" stayed at number one for five weeks and remained in the UK top 50 for 21 weeks in total.[4]
It was also the group's first American number one, entering the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 18 January 1964 at number 45 and starting the British invasion of the American music industry. By 1 February it held the number-one spot, and stayed there for seven weeks before being replaced by "She Loves You", a reverse scenario of what had occurred in Britain. It remained on the Billboard chart for 15 weeks.[5] "I Want to Hold Your Hand" became the Beatles' best-selling single worldwide.[6] In 2013, Billboard magazine named it the 44th biggest hit of "all-time" on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.[7]
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Musical structure
3 In the studio
4 Promotion and release
5 Reception
6 Charts and certifications
6.1 Charts
6.2 All-time charts
6.3 Certifications
7 Melody and lyrics
8 Personnel
9 Cover versions and use in pop culture
10 Parodies and sampling
11 References
11.1 Notes
12 External links
Background and composition[edit]
Capitol Records' rejection of the group's recordings in the US was now Brian Epstein's main concern, and he encouraged Lennon and McCartney to write a song to appeal specifically to the American market.[8] George Martin, however, had no such explicit recollections, believing that Capitol were left with no alternative but to release "I Want To Hold Your Hand" due to increasing demand for the group's product.[9]
McCartney had recently moved into 57 Wimpole Street, London, where he was lodging as a guest of Dr Richard and Margaret Asher, and whose daughter, actress Jane Asher, had become McCartney's girlfriend after their meeting earlier in the year. This location briefly became Lennon and McCartney's new writing base, taking over from McCartney's Forthlin Road home in Liverpool.[10] Margaret Asher taught the oboe in the "small, rather stuffy music room" in the basement[10] where Lennon and McCartney sat at the piano and composed 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'. In September 1980, Lennon told Playboy magazine:
We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses.[11]
In 1994, McCartney agreed with Lennon's description of the circumstances surrounding the composition of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", saying:
'Eyeball to eyeball' is a very good description of it. That's exactly how it was. 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was very co-written. It was our big number one; the one that would eventually break us in America.[12]
Musical structure[edit]
The song is in the key of G major and lyrically opens two beats early with "Oh yeah, I'll tell you something" with a D-B, B-D melody note drop and rise over a I (G) chord.[13] Controversy exists over the landmark chord that Lennon stated McCartney hit on the piano while they were composing the song. Marshall considers it is the minor vi (Em) chord (the third chord in the I-V7-vi (G-D7-Em) progression).[14] Everett is of the same opinion.[15] Pedler claims, however, that more surprising is the melody note drop from B to F# against a III7 (B7) chord on "understand".[16] Music theorists are divided over whether this chord is a iii (Bm), a B major, or a B7 or even a B5 power chord with no major or minor defining third.[13]
Lyrically bland, random phrases were most likely called out and if they fitted the overall sound would stay. This, according to Ian MacDonald, was how Lennon and McCartney worked in partnership at that time. The song’s title is probably a variation of “I Wanna Be Your Man” which they had only just recently recorded at Abbey Road Studios.[17]
In the studio[edit]
The Beatles recorded "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at EMI Studios in Studio 2 on 17 October 1963. This song, along with the single's flip side, "This Boy", was the first Beatles song to be recorded with four-track technology. The two songs were recorded on the same day, and each needed seventeen takes to complete.[18] Mono and stereo mixing was done by George Martin on 21 October 1963;[19] further stereo mixes were done on 8 June 1965, for compilations released by EMI affiliates in Australia and the Netherlands,[20] and on 7 November 1966.[21]
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was one of two Beatles songs (along with "She Loves You" as "Sie liebt dich") to be later recorded in German, entitled "Komm, gib mir deine Hand". Both songs were translated by Luxembourger musician Camillo Felgen, under the pseudonym of "Jean Nicolas". Odeon, the German arm of EMI (the parent company of the Beatles' record label, Parlophone) was convinced that the Beatles' records would not sell in Germany unless they were sung in German. The Beatles detested the idea, and when they were due to record the German version on 27 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris (where the Beatles were performing 18 days of concerts at the Olympia Theatre) they chose to boycott the session. Their record producer, George Martin, having waited some hours for them to show up, was outraged and insisted that they give it a try. Two days later, the Beatles recorded "Komm, gib mir deine Hand", one of the few times in their career that they recorded outside London. However, Martin later conceded: "They were right, actually, it wasn’t necessary for them to record in German, but they weren’t graceless, they did a good job".[18]
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand" was released as a German single in March 1964. In July, the song appeared in full stereo in the United States on the Beatles' Capitol LP Something New. (That album was released in CD form for the first time in 2004, on The Capitol Albums, Volume 1, and then rereleased in 2014, individually and in the boxed set The US Albums.) "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" also appeared on the compilations Past Masters and Mono Masters.[citation needed]
The German-language track was a big hit in Germany at the time,[clarification needed] but today, like all the other German-lyrics versions of English-language pop songs that were popular in that country during the 1950s and 1960s, it is generally considered as a cultural curiosity from a by-gone era at best. The English versions are much better known in Germany today; the Beatles' Red and Blue albums of the 1970s already featured the English hits on the German pressings.[citation needed]
Promotion and release[edit]
In the United Kingdom, "She Loves You" (released in August) had shot back to the number-one position in November following blanket media coverage of the Beatles (described as Beatlemania). Mark Lewisohn later wrote: “'She Loves You' had already sold an industry-boggling three quarters of a million before these fresh converts were pushing it into seven figures. And at this very moment, just four weeks before Christmas, with everyone connected to the music and relevant retail industries already lying prone in paroxysms of unimaginable delight, EMI pulled the trigger and released 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'. And then it was bloody pandemonium".[22]
On 29 November 1963, Parlophone Records released "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in the UK, with "This Boy" joining it on the single's B-side. Demand had been building for quite a while, as evidenced by the one million advance orders for the single. When it was finally released, the response was phenomenal. A week after it entered the British charts, on 14 December 1963, it knocked "She Loves You" off the top spot, the first instance of an act taking over from itself at number one in British history, and it clung to the top spot for five weeks. It stayed in the charts for another 15 weeks and made a one-week return to the charts on 16 May 1964. Beatlemania was peaking at that time; during the same period, the Beatles set a record by occupying the top two positions on both the album and single charts in the UK.[citation needed]
EMI and Brian Epstein finally convinced American label Capitol Records, a subsidiary of EMI, that the Beatles could make an impact in the US, leading to the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" with "I Saw Her Standing There" on the B-side as a single on 26 December 1963. Capitol had previously resisted issuing Beatle recordings in the US. This resulted in the relatively modest Vee-Jay and Swan labels releasing the group's earlier Parlophone counterparts in the US. Seizing the opportunity, Epstein demanded US$40,000 from Capitol to promote the single (the most the Beatles had ever previously spent on an advertising campaign was US$5,000). The single had actually been intended for release in mid-January 1964, coinciding with the planned appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. However, a 14-year-old fan of the Beatles, Marsha Albert, was determined to get hold of the single earlier.[23] Later she said:
“ It wasn't so much what I had seen, it's what I had heard. They had a scene where they played a clip of 'She Loves You' and I thought it was a great song ... I wrote that I thought the Beatles would be really popular here, and if [deejay Carroll James] could get one of their records, that would really be great.[24] ”
James was the DJ for WWDC, a radio station in Washington, DC. Eventually he decided to pursue Albert's suggestion to him and asked the station's promotion director to get British Overseas Airways Corporation to ship in a copy of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" from Britain. Albert related what happened next: "Carroll James called me up the day he got the record and said 'If you can get down here by 5 o'clock, we'll let you introduce it.'" Albert managed to get to the station in time, and introduced the record with: "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the United States, here are the Beatles singing 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.'"[23]
The song proved to be a huge hit, a surprise for the station since they catered mainly to a more staid audience, which would normally be expecting songs from singers such as Andy Williams or Bobby Vinton instead of rock and roll. James took to playing the song repeatedly on the station, often turning down the song in the middle to make the declaration, "This is a Carroll James exclusive",[24] to avoid theft of the song by other stations.
Capitol threatened to seek a court order banning airplay of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which was already being spread by James to a couple of DJs in Chicago and St. Louis. James and WWDC ignored the threat, and Capitol came to the conclusion that they could well take advantage of the publicity, releasing the single two weeks ahead of schedule on 26 December.[citation needed]
The demand was insatiable; in the first three days alone, a quarter million copies had already been sold (10,000 copies In New York City every hour). Capitol was so overloaded by the demand, it contracted part of the job of pressing copies off to Columbia Records and RCA. By 18 January, the song had started its 15-week chart run, and on 1 February, the Beatles finally achieved their first number-one in Billboard,[25] emulating the success of another British group, the Tornados with "Telstar", which was number one on the Billboard chart for three weeks in December 1962. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" finally relinquished the number-one spot after seven weeks, passing the baton to the very song they had knocked off the top in Britain: "She Loves You". "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold close to five million copies in the US alone.[26] The replacement of themselves at the summit of the US charts was the first time since Elvis Presley in 1956, with "Love Me Tender" beating out "Don't Be Cruel", that an act had dropped off the top of the American charts only to be replaced by another of their releases. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" also finished as the No. 1 song for 1964, according to Billboard.[27] In 2013, Billboard listed it as the 44th most successful song of all-time on the Hot 100.[28]
With that, the "British Invasion" of America had been launched. Throughout 1964, British pop and rock artists enjoyed unprecedented success on the American charts.[citation needed]
The American single's front and back sleeves featured a photograph of the Beatles with Paul McCartney holding a cigarette. In 1984, Capitol Records airbrushed out the cigarette for the re-release of the single.[citation needed]
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was also released in America on the album Meet the Beatles!, which altered the American charts by actually outselling the single. Beforehand, the American markets were more in favour of hit singles instead of whole albums; however, two months after the album's release, it had shipped 3,650,000 copies, over 200,000 ahead of the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single at 3,400,000.[29]
The song was included on the 1964 Canadian release The Beatles' Long Tall Sally. The November 1966 stereo remix appeared on 1966's A Collection of Beatles Oldies, and on several later Beatles compilation albums, including 1973's 1962–1966, 1982's 20 Greatest Hits, and 2000's 1. The 2009 CD rerelease of the Beatles' catalog included the 1966 stereo remix on Past Masters and the original mono mix on Mono Masters.[citation needed]
Reception[edit]
The song was greeted by raving fans on both sides of the Atlantic but was dismissed by some critics as nothing more than another fad song that would not hold up to the test of time. Cynthia Lowery of the Associated Press expressed her exasperation with Beatlemania by saying of the Beatles: "Heaven knows we've heard them enough. It has been impossible to get a radio weather bulletin or time signal without running into 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'."[30]
Bob Dylan was impressed by the Beatles' innovation, saying, "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid."[31] For a time Dylan thought the Beatles were singing "I get high" instead of "I can't hide". He was surprised when he met them and found out that none of them had actually smoked marijuana.[32] The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson said the song "wasn't even that great a record, but they [female Beatles fans] just screamed at it. ... It got us off our asses in the studio. We started cutting – we said 'look, don't worry about the Beatles, we'll cut our own stuff."[33]
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, but the award went to Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz for "The Girl from Ipanema". However, in 1998, the song won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It has also made the list in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In addition, the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Endowment for the Arts and Scholastic Press have named "I Want to Hold Your Hand" as one of the Songs of the Century. In 2004, it was ranked number 16 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[34] In 2010, Rolling Stone placed the song at number two on the 100 Greatest Beatles Songs after "A Day in the Life".[35][36] It was ranked number two in Mojo's list on the "100 Records That Changed the World", after Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti".[37] The song was ranked number thirty-nine on Billboard's All Time Top 100[38] As of August 2015[update], "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is ranked as the 45th best song of all time, as well as the number three song of 1963, in an aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net.[39] Time included the song on its list of the All-TIME 100 Songs.[40]
The Beatles' recording of this song also appeared as the opening track in the 1997 Time-Life 6-CD boxed set, Gold And Platinum: The Ultimate Rock Collection.
Starting at the song's final week at number 1 on the American charts, the Beatles have the all-time record of seven number 1 songs in a one-year period. In order, these were "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Love Me Do", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine", and "Eight Days a Week". It was also the first of seven songs written by Lennon-McCartney to hit number 1 on the US charts in 1964; that's an all-time record for writing the most songs to hit number 1 on the US charts in the same calendar year. (see List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones)
Charts and certifications[edit]
Charts[edit]
Chart (1963–64)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[41] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[42] 6
Ireland (IRMA)[43] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[44] 1
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)[45] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[46] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[47] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[48] 1
US Cash Box Top 100[49] 1
West German Media Control Singles Chart[50] 1
All-time charts[edit]
Chart
Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 44
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
United States (RIAA)[51]
Gold 1,000,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Melody and lyrics[edit]
Reminiscent of Tin Pan Alley and Brill Building techniques and an example of modified 32-bar form,[52] the song is written on a two-bridge model, with only an intervening verse to connect them. The song has no real "lead" singer, as Lennon and McCartney sing in harmony with each other. Lennon's vocals are more prominent on the recording and on the live bootleg BBC version; however, when the Beatles performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964, McCartney's vocals could be heard more clearly (although this may have been due to the audio mix, as their microphones were not turned to the same sound level).[53]
Personnel[edit]
John Lennon – vocal, rhythm guitar, handclaps
Paul McCartney – vocal, bass guitar, handclaps
George Harrison – lead guitar, handclaps
Ringo Starr – drums, handclaps
Personnel per Ian MacDonald[54]
Cover versions and use in pop culture[edit]
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In 1964, Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded an instrumental version, which rose to number 55 in the American charts.
In 1968, The Moving Sidewalks, fronted by a pre-ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist Billy Gibbons recorded a psychedelic garage rendition
In 1969, soul singer Al Green covered the song.[55]
In 1975, American band Sparks released a cover as a single. It was included as a bonus track on the 1996 Island re-release of Big Beat.
In 1980, British pop duo Dollar had a UK Top 10 hit with their cover, included on the re-release of their debut album Shooting Stars (1979).
In 1982, Funk band Lakeside covered the song as a ballad and became a Top Ten R&B hit.
In 1996, Puerto Rican singer Manny Manuel covered the song in Spanish as "Dame tu mano y ven" on the compilation album Tropical Tribute to the Beatles. This version peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.[56] Manuel's cover led to McCartney receiving a BMI Latin Award in 1997.[57]
In 2007, T.V. Carpio covered the song for the film Across the Universe.
In 2010, Chris Colfer covered the song for Glee in the episode Grilled Cheesus as the Across the Universe version.
Parodies and sampling[edit]
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Recorded by Homer and Jethro with different lyrics ("if you, electrocute me, I wanna hold your hands")
Neil Innes' The Rutles also pastiched the song as "Hold My Hand" in 1978.
For the 2006 album Love, George Martin and his son, Giles, melded the original studio recording with a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, complete with screaming hordes of teenage girls.
Beatallica, a parody of both the Beatles and Metallica, recorded a parody titled "I Want to Choke Your Band".
In Disneyland's original Star Tours attraction, a maintenance droid listens to a song called "I Want to Weld Your Hand."
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External links[edit]
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Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Preceded by
"She Loves You" by The Beatles UK number-one single
12 December 1963 (five weeks) Succeeded by
"Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five
Preceded by
"There! I've Said It Again" by Bobby Vinton Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
1 February 1964 (seven weeks) Succeeded by
"She Loves You" by The Beatles
Preceded by
"Return to Sender" by Elvis Presley UK Christmas Number One single
1963 Succeeded by
"I Feel Fine" by The Beatles
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The Beatles singles discography
UK and US
(all labels)
1963
"Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why"
"From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl"
"She Loves You" / "I'll Get You"
1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That"
"I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman"
1965
"Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is"
"Help!" / "I'm Down"
"We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper"
1966
"Paperback Writer" / "Rain"
"Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby"
1967
"Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever"
"All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
"Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus"
1968
"Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light"
"Hey Jude" / "Revolution"
1969
"Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down"
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe"
"Something" / "Come Together"
1970
"Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "A Day in the Life"
1982
"The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
1995
"Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"
1996
"Real Love" / "Baby's in Black"
UK only
(Parlophone,
Apple)
1962
"My Bonnie" / "The Saints"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy"
1964
"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today"
1976
"Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout"
US only
(Vee-Jay,
Swan,
Tollie,
Capitol,
Apple)
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There"
1964
"Twist and Shout" / "There's a Place"
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" / "Thank You Girl"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
"Sie liebt dich" / "I'll Get You"
"I'll Cry Instead" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
"And I Love Her" / "If I Fell"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Matchbox" / "Slow Down"
1965
"Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
"Yesterday" / "Act Naturally"
1966
"Nowhere Man" / "What Goes On"
1970
"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
1976
"Got to Get You into My Life" / "Helter Skelter"
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Julia"
Other
countries
(Odeon,
Parlophone,
Apple)
1963
"All My Loving" / "This Boy" (Canada)
1964
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich" (Germany)
1966
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" / "Nowhere Man" (Australia)
1968
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Europe, Japan, Australia)
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "I Will" (Philippines)
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Don't Pass Me By" (Sweden)
1969
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" / "Tell Me What You See" (Japan)
1970
"Oh! Darling" / "Here Comes the Sun" (Japan)
1972
"All Together Now" / "Hey Bulldog" (Europe)
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Within You Without You" (Germany)
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"I Love You" (Cliff Richard & The Shadows, 1960)
"Moon River" (Danny Williams, 1961)
"Return to Sender" (Elvis Presley, 1962)
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" (The Beatles, 1963)
"I Feel Fine" (The Beatles, 1964)
"Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" (The Beatles, 1965)
"Green, Green Grass of Home" (Tom Jones, 1966)
"Hello, Goodbye" (The Beatles, 1967)
"Lily the Pink" (The Scaffold, 1968)
"Two Little Boys" (Rolf Harris, 1969)
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Billboard Year-End number one singles (1960–1979)
1960: "Theme from A Summer Place" – Percy Faith
1961: "Tossin' and Turnin'" – Bobby Lewis
1962: "Stranger on the Shore" – Mr. Acker Bilk
1963: "Sugar Shack" – Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs
1964: "I Want to Hold Your Hand" – The Beatles
1965: "Wooly Bully" – Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
1966: "Ballad of the Green Berets" – S/Sgt. Barry Sadler
1967: "To Sir, with Love" – Lulu
1968: "Hey Jude" – The Beatles
1969: "Sugar, Sugar" – The Archies
1970: "Bridge over Troubled Water" – Simon & Garfunkel
1971: "Joy to the World" – Three Dog Night
1972: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" – Roberta Flack
1973: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" – Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974: "The Way We Were" – Barbra Streisand
1975: "Love Will Keep Us Together" – Captain & Tennille
1976: "Silly Love Songs" – Wings
1977: "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" – Rod Stewart
1978: "Shadow Dancing" – Andy Gibb
1979: "My Sharona" – The Knack
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