Artists such as the Kinks and the Who had already used feedback live, but Lennon remained proud of the fact that the Beatles were perhaps the first group to deliberately put it on vinyl.Ĥ time with drummer Ringo Starr's R&B-influenced beat (based on the "Latin" drumming in Ray Charles's hit "What'd I Say") featured through most of the song except for the bridge, which has a more conventional backbeat. "I Feel Fine" marks one of the earliest examples of the use of feedback as a recording effect in popular music. Īt the time of the song's recording, the Beatles, having mastered the studio basics, had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes (such as electronic goofs, twisted tapes, and talkback). Paul McCartney said the drums on "I Feel Fine" were inspired by Ray Charles's 1959 single " What'd I Say". But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A-side, so we decided to release it just like that." īoth Lennon and George Harrison said that the riff was influenced by a riff in " Watch Your Step", a 1961 song written and performed by Bobby Parker and covered by the Beatles in concerts during 19. Anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, 'I've written this song but it's lousy'. You go away and do that', knowing that we'd almost finished the album Beatles for Sale. He later recalled: "I told them I'd write a song specially for the riff. Lennon wrote the song's guitar riff while the Beatles were in the studio recording " Eight Days a Week" in October 1964, and kept playing it between takes. In the UK, it was the fifth-highest-selling single of the 1960s. The single topped charts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. The recording includes one of the earliest uses of guitar feedback in popular music. It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. " I Feel Fine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in November 1964 as the A-side of their eighth single.
For the EP by Black Lab, see I Feel Fine (album).
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