Seareman's in England 103 n formats, and Mlactin had litle choice buc w provide sterea versions in which ihe exteeiae separating of the eas capes was modified anly slighty Saill, exactly Because the carly scerce is so primitive. these recordings afler a bird's eye view of the group's inserumencal and vocal arrangemeats, and reveal decaile thet are lost in ube cerocrressed mone saiees, Four-uaek recording solved the probleas, Now the inetnanents could tale nwa or nace tracks, Lead and backing vecals could be recorded sepurately, and the yLerec: mixing sewiuns would yéeld mars acrfally balanced recordings. Mose crucialy. he expanded lacilici give the Beatles greater leeway for experimentation, a freedesm they would excecise az chey leaned moe about studio weebnolapey. But ment rematneal fairly bask, On 17 Oewuber sear the end of ube With ide Beads sessitans, they beaught in the songs they kad in mind or cheir nese single, “I Wasnt wo I fold Your Hand’ andl ‘This Boy’. Vhis Boy? vas someching new for che Beales, and for Lennon in dl. bused on a charé progressian rutgive to 19508 thelr firsr recordings. an rhe mew ee reign, & slaw bral doo-wop, peifocimed entirely is close dhase-ppast han meny, Even use bridge, in which Lennon steps one far a fullthrorls sala vocal. has a wordles hanoony backieyy from Husrisea aid MeCaraney. Appealing: bur not carchehaking, ir is nevertheless che progenitor of a lang line of lushly barmomiveal Beucles songs. tram ‘EET Fell’ andl Yes Te Ly 1 ‘Sun King’ and "Becausc’, [Want te Kolil Your Huns!’ Lennen-MeCarmey collaberatinn, tcpuises the eelebracoty sound of ‘She Loves You’, buc is more conven- tionally strucrared, ‘The thearles had opened! “She Loaviss Yoni” with woew Lott roll that Lumibled Umusediately ite the inrroductory chorus. Ip “1 anc co J old Your Hand’, che intreduction is exore ambicions: guitar chords become 4 springboard. catasulcing the listener into the verse, The sang is actually quite subversive. ‘Uhe innocent declirarian of die title was exactly che sact of thing, that would ceassure parcuts thar che Beagles were safe ancl wholesome; yet for anyone liscening closely the cuusic tells a dilleter stocy. ‘That cager ocrave leap (you'll ler me hold your and’) that leads iawo the retrain expressed uodis- juiced seaual tension. aad the bridge apnplisies che image of false restraint: the srudied cilmoness of fis opening fine, “und when 1 touch you 1 feel happy inside’, is belied in the building anergy and risingm The Boras meludy ofits conclusion, ‘irs such a feeling thar my lave | can’t hide, Jeanie hice, I cant hide’. Seeing, a secual unilereuirrent in such assemingly aaive seng is not merely analytical funiasy, In the manuscrips «rhe sang’s lyrics (now in the Brirish Museum), hieCactney joktingly noted Ue sea verse retain as ‘you'll le. rie hold your ehing’, and in some of his more naburtoned interviews, Lennon weletred to the song a 'T want re hold your head’ — which is whae he often seems co be singing, on apes of che gioupis conceets, Tbe impovance of texeure in this svcoiding is evident fiom the fires line, MoieChareney ane Taamin sing 3 in unison, fair when Tlautigon fills in che pauscs in ebe lyaie with « w ing guitac line set in che same register as the voices. his playing seems less an embel- listauewt chisn an Integral pace of die melady, There ure ulso seal bue effective couches — the stray twangs ofa solo sutitar thar dec the veer Mle hs cured dhe overdubbed! handelappieys ear snpyrocie che -hpthm and brighrens the record's sound. Scarr’s drumuning is alse an imporsant alemenc. When Fenner and McCaniney take rhelr octave leap on the word ‘hand’. Start play: a cascading fill, And lo the bridge, he caps along with paricnr sicadiness antil cane bide’, and then rofrrons tle tension of the vacal ane with a steady, delving. bash ar the floor tom tom and open high aar. IFanyune had the ideo ar the beginning of e963 that dhe Beatles seexe a flash io che pany 'T Want co Hold Your land’ mnade chem think again, Released on 29 November (1 week after Wee rhe Berets), it vole 2.5 20illion copies within six weeks un Great Britain alane, and sehen ie replaced ‘She Loves You? ae che tay of she: hit parade, i was the Beatles’ Fourth owmnber one record of he yea, The albums were for & doing squellp wells Pie Piewse fe copped che alee cha weeks, until Wb she Heaelee eeplaced in, According, co a repors in che British crade publicacion Revond Resale, the group's record sales lor 1983 otalled some #6 sayjpag ayy ‘the Bricish newspapers were saving, well seh’ leh se ole, oubw commneredd everyehing. and wed say Amecien. Wego! the Number One. diel Fal Secltisase. By cher weld aisedtind O10 saa denen to a essences 30 te tetetst? surg jose ar any ul dra Paul MeCaceney. 11807a Sppinete, acai wwcrber diag the irs silo “he La t Festvary INGA. forced 2 Sl ws eee eh ‘vere oul Gud evens a ile susp-sed byrne eran lone who oMedad heir eevale ans deportes Ths Beller The Beatles Conquer America 1964 to the rick mychology thac has sprung opasound the Beacles’ story, evenlt Uta were jnupressive enough in zedlity have been mageified in the telling. Gne myth started by Epsteit and carried on by the Beates -hemselves, is that the group refined re eisic rhe LSA acid they bad a nuniber onc record jn tbe Suoetican charts, America hal been noxoriously snhaspicable ro British pop singers and groups, and isthe story gues, the Bezrler were disinclined re cap cheir astonishing Buitish successes wich failuce in dhe USA, As ir turned eure, PWane ro Told You: Vand! was indeed viding tle Lop of Ube clears eluent Use Beatles auived at die newly receoned Kennedy Lorernarional Airpore on 7 Lebraary tq. Bur ene arrange vents tet bring thant gver were finalized early in Navelsen, weeks before ‘| Wane to Llold Your Land! was released in Britain, ard nearly twer months before irs American relaase im the ase dyes of Decembes, ‘The caralyée for the wip wes Sid Bemsein, a edgling New York cogent pronwter wh lad been reading about Beatlemania ins British, newspapers. In che aurumo of 1y6y, he enrerprisingly celephoned Epstein and offered his nearly dicubke hz Beatles’ usual fee for rover shows ac Caracgic Hall, Epstein accepecd, and Bermetcin bookos Carnegie Hall fur afrernoae and evening shows on 12 Februaer Epstein, however, did not want to bring dhe Beatles 19 the USA jose for concerts, Whar he wanted was an imporrant Lelevisim. uppear- ance. sotnethloys that would have ube nacional reach char Sindy Nighe at the Hasndone Hated hud in Eghind. The nearest cquivaleit wus the Ed Sullivan Show an Lour-toug varioty shaw an broadcast by C/BS on Sunday evenings. Ait turned out, Sul also keew alzou: the Beusles. He hed been at London Airpare an av Oeraber, when a mass of sere:ming int greeued caem on their returs fron Sweden, ited New Yack in Novesber, he and Sullisan When Epsrein + sunelea baeyein: the Beatles would have cop billing on thieao The majar ¢2 tical scondal invoking o Cabinet Mir ster. Jahr Frafune [right and his elungrehip tm y cell ‘Shvivine Kea er Jaber 1983 did much “a uncerring he culhority of the ch aloblich neo! oud peeurte tedas het pop lar mesic began lo rafect Ts Beatle consecutive shows, ony, 16 aad 23 Februasy 2964: but they wuld perforin Jor a reduced Fee. Fpstein also met with executives ac Capitol Records, who had seconsideved aheie inidal reluc some rhe group's recordings. They mag still have harkoused dentacs, buc Epstein was hard Lo resist: urbane, polisleel, convinced that making ‘ame 0 che ight impression was everyshing, andfecusing on che most Jc of kay rhar impressian should he made, he naw had minut ale he inarguable tack cecerd of baviay, wrned a peovineial bund ita decade, the Fritish pop music sceess story 0: Sociologists searching for ways o exp'aio che Beatles’ impace at chis time have atade ouch of a presumed peychological aed for non- threatening, escapist entertainment in bech Brirain and the LSA in 1962, In Britain, x government sex scandal involving xe Secretary cof Stace for War, John Profumo, monopolized che headlines during the susniner of 1963; and fust as foo Le Carré was baying ro make ais matleas an aushor of cold war spy novels, Kim Philby, 2 Hritish jaumalisc, was revealed asa Sowier spy. In the 1SA, the Civil The a ak Réglis movement was meeting violent :edistance in the Sout American governmenc-was sending aid to Viemam wicheut m a clue whae it wus getting inte, And on 22 Noveuiber 063 - Wie day Wil che Bewsles was relcased in Bricain — fon F; Kennedy, che papue Jar young President, was assassinaced, ahauprly ending, what bad promled ta bea rejuvenation of American politics,