699 The Beatles “I Feel Fine” 1964

“by late 1963, ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah’…had become a cliché. By the October 1964 recording of the bridge of ‘I Feel Fine,’ the Beatles’ shouts and endlessly repeated syllables and phrases were for the most part toned down into joyful yet Apollonian ‘ooh’s in sustained backing vocals. The Beatles had begun to seek other means of expressing excitement, involving both instrumental and vocal techniques. In ‘I Feel Fine,’ powerful joy is celebrated both in the opening, in which Lennon creates feedback in his own guitar from the open A on McCartney’s bass, and in the rhythmically emphasized three-part choral declamations ‘I’m so glad’ and ‘she’s so glad’” (Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul, 2001). 

The Beatles “I Feel Fine”