Meaning of She Loves You - The Beatles

With the release of this composition began a phenomenon that music historians will call “Beatlemania” (Beatlemania). The single She Loves You introduced The Beatles to the American public and made the musicians real stars in the UK.

And in the words of the song, for the first time, the signature refrain “yeah, yeah, yeah” sounded, because of which the group in some European countries will be called The Yeah-Yeahs.

The story and meaning of She Loves You

The main part of the song Paul McCartney (Paul McCartney) and John Lennon (John Lennon) composed June 26, 1963 in Newcastle, relaxing after a concert at the hotel.

Paul said that he was inspired by Bobby Rydell’s hit Forget Him:

I planned an “answer song” in which one of us would sing: “I love you” and the other would answer: “Yes, yes.” We decided that in itself it was a poor idea, but at least we had an idea for a song called She Loves You. We sat on the bed in the hotel for a couple of hours and wrote it.

Anthology

John Lennon also talked about working on the track:

I remember it was Paul’s idea: instead of singing “I love you” again, we used the third person. This little detail is evident in his current work, where he writes a story about someone, and I’m more inclined to just write about myself.

All We Are Saying, David Sheff

Paul McCartney’s word:

It was “she”, “you”, “me”, “I” again – a song in personal pronouns. I guess the most interesting thing about it is that it was a message song, someone was delivering a message. It wasn’t us…

Many Years from Now, Barry Miles

They completed the composition the next day, being in the house of Paul’s parents. McCartney recalled:

We were at home one night working hard on it while my dad was watching TV and smoking Players cigarettes and we wrote She Loves You. In fact, we ended it there because we started it in a hotel room. We went into the living room: “Daddy, listen to this. What do you think?” We played it to my dad, and he said: “That’s very good, son, but there are so many of these Americanisms around. Could you sing: “She loves you. Yes! Yes! Yes!” At that moment, we almost fainted and said: “No, dad, you got it all wrong!” This is a typical situation with my father.

Many Years from Now, Barry Miles

Lennon also talked about the signature refrain:

I don’t know where that “yeah, yeah, yeah” came from, but I remember when Elvis recorded All Shook Up, for the first time in my life I heard “uh huh”, “oh yeah” and “yeah, yeah” sung in the same song .

MacDonald, 1997

McCartney admitted that they borrowed the “wooooo” exclamation from the song Twist and Shout by the Isley Brothers.

Recording

The Beatles recorded She Loves You at Studio 2 on Abbey Road on July 1, 1963.

Sound designer Norman Smith recalled:

While tuning the microphone, I first saw the text 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: “My God, what words! This is exactly what I don’t like.” But when they started to sing it – bam, wow, great, I started dancing right behind the mixer.

The Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewinsohn

The final version of the composition was ready on July 4, 1963.

Release and achievements

In the UK, the single She Love You/I’ll Get You was released on 23 August 1963 on the Parlophone label. Even before the release, fans ordered more than half a million records. The song topped the charts in the UK, Norway, Canada and New Zealand.

The single was released in the US on September 16, 1963. It climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and US Cash Box Top 100 charts.

The composition is included in several ratings:

“The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” – Rolling Stone
“Songs that Changed the World” – Uncut,
“1010 songs you should have” – Q,
“The Greatest Singles of All Time” – New Musical Express.

In 1964, The Beatles released She Loves You in German under the title Sie Liebt Dich.

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Interesting Facts

The Everly Brothers used the “yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah” refrain before The Beatles. It is featured on their cover version of Temptation, which topped the UK charts in 1961.
The single She Loves You turned out to be the most commercially successful album by The Beatles in the UK.
This is one of the few Beatles songs that has never been released in stereo.
The single She Loves You was the first record that Ozzy Osbourne bought.

She Loves You Lyrics

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah

You think you’ve lost your love
Well, I saw her yesterday-yi-yay
It’s you she’s thinking of
And she told me what to say-yi-yay

chorus:
She says she loves you
and you know that can’t be bad
Yes, she loves you
and you know you should be glad

She said you hurt her so
She almost lost her mind
And now she says she knows
You’re not the hurting kind

Chorus

Oo, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
With a love like that
You know you should be glad

You know it’s up to you
I think it’s only fair
Pride can hurt you too
Apologize to her

Chorus

Oo, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
With a love like that
You know you should be glad
With a love like that
you know you should be glad
With a love like that
you know you should be glad
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

She Loves You Lyrics

She loves you, yes, yes, yes
She loves you, yes, yes, yes
She loves you, yes, yes, yes.

You think you’ve lost love.
Well, I saw her yesterday.
She only thinks of you
And she told me what to say.

Chorus:
She says she loves you
And you know it can’t be bad.
Yes she loves you
And you know how to rejoice.

She said you hurt her so much
That she almost lost her mind.
She says she knows
You are not evil.

Chorus

Oh she loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you, yes, yes, yes.
With such love
You know you should be happy

You know it’s up to you
I think it’s fair
Pride will hurt you too.
Apologize to her.

Chorus

Oh she loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you, yes, yes, yes.
With such love
You know you should be happy
With such love
You know you should be happy
With such love
You know you should be happy
Yes Yes Yes,
Yes Yes Yes Yes.

Quotes about the song She Loves You

Radio host Brian Matthew reviewed She Loves You in Melody Maker and called it “trash”. None of us had heard the word “banal” before, and we thought, “Tranquil? What does it mean? Saccharine? Too rebellious? What does “banal” mean? But when the record hit No. 1 on the Melody Maker chart the following week, he retracted his comments on the first page: “No, no, at first I might have thought it was a little trite… but I’m liking it more and more.”

Paul McCartney, Anthology