"I Want To Hold Your Hand" catapulted
the Beatles at the rock-olymp, initialized their worldwide
break-through and started the British Invasion of the American
music industry. The rousing smash reminiscent of Tin Pan Alley
and Brill Building techniques and an example of modified 32-bar
form. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is writtten on a two-bridge
model, with only an intervening verse to connect them. The song
has no real lead singer, as Lennon and McCartney sing
alternately in unison and in harmony with each other. With
advance orders exceeding one million copies in United Kingdom
alone it started after the release on November 29, 1963, easily
atop the weekly Global Chart and reached short time later also
no.1 in almost all countries around the world and finally even
the pole position on the Year-End Chart 1964. The song was
nominated for the 1964 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year, but
the award went to Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz for "The Girl
From Ipanema". |