I FEEL FINE
“I Feel Fine” is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released in 1964 by the Beatles as the A-side of their eighth British single. The song has one of the first uses of guitar feedback in popular music. (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)
