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I_Want_To_Hold_Your_Hand_(Beatles_song_-_sample).ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 14 s, 65 kbps, file size: 111 KB)

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Description

A short, relatively low-quality sound sample from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles.

Source

Past Masters, Volume 1 CD

Portion used

Less than 10% of the original audio. (14 seconds from original 2:24.)

Low resolution?

Ogg Vorbis, quality zero (64 kbit/s)

Other information

This sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

Article

I Want to Hold Your Hand

Purpose of use

This song is an example of an early Beatles pop rock recording. It demonstrates the band operating as a basic rock group—guitars, bass, drums and vocals— playing a simple, catchy pop tune. This contrasts with songs they would later create in an expanding range of musical styles, using an increasingly innovative combination of unusual instruments and studio techniques. Though early, it nevertheless demonstrates an advance the band had already made in its "incorporation of a harmonized release, which, for the first time on a Beatles single, supplied a strong musical and emotional contrast to the overall exuberance of the song". (Source: Gould, Jonathan (2008), Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6, p. 214.) The sample presents part of the second verse, towards the end of which the harmonization can be heard in the combined vocals of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Words alone are inadequate to describe the song, and presenting the sound of this song alongside later ones is necessary for a complete understanding of its nature and its contrast with material from other periods, and hence of the way the band's music evolved during their career. Additionally, this song is historically significant: its sudden huge popularity in the U.S. in late 1963 was a key moment in the group's success story, as detailed in the article.

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Non-free media rationale for Power pop
Article

Power pop

Purpose of use

This sample illustrates an educational article, specifically to show an iconic song, which had a major impact on the development of the subject of the article and which is impossible to describe in text.

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Article

Cultural impact of the Beatles

Purpose of use

This sample illustrates an educational article, specifically to show an iconic song, which had a major impact on the development of the subject of the article and which is impossible to describe in text. It is used specifically to support the following quote from Bob Dylan in reference to the song: "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid."

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current15:20, 12 May 200714 s (111 KB)Gurch (talk | contribs)Reverted to earlier revision

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