“I Feel Fine” by The Beatles

"I Feel Fine" went out as the Beatles' eighth single in late 1964, and it carries a sound pop radio had barely met yet: guitar feedback, captured on tape at a time when almost nobody else was doing it. John Lennon wrote it, credited to Lennon-McCartney, and he found the riff while the band were in the studio cutting "Eight Days a Week" that October, playing it over and over between takes until he built a song around it. He'd later say he told Ringo Starr the song was lousy, but once they tried it, it sounded like an A-side.

Lennon sings lead, George Harrison and Paul McCartney chime in behind him, and Starr keeps the whole jangling thing swinging. It topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and was Britain's Christmas number one that year, and in America it landed on Beatles '65.

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