Beatles '65

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BEATLES '65
 
 
Beatles ’65  is the Beatles’ fifth album issued by Capitol Records, being released in December 1964, but their seventh American album.  In 2004, Beatles ’65 was issued on CD for the first time as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set, containing the US mixes for both mono and stereo.  In 2014, the album was released on CD again, both individually, and included in the boxed set The US Albums, which contained the album’s running order but with UK mixes as remastered in 2009.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

The October 1964 single by the Beatles, “I Feel Fine” (included on their album Beatles ’65) is credited as the first song to use feedback in a rock recording.  The band was about to leave the recording studio when John Lennon left his guitar resting against his amplifier, only to be greeted by a whine of sound.  A feedback note was then added to the very beginning of the song.  In one of his last interviews, John Lennon spoke proudly of this musical innovation:  “I defy anybody to find a record . . . unless it is some old blues record from 1922 . . . that uses feedback that way.  So I claim it for the Beatles.  Before [Jimi] Hendrix, before the Who, before anybody.  The first feedback on record.” 

 

(July 2015)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021