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The original version of the line ‘She was just 17/If you know what I mean’ from The Beatles’ ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ was much different According to the book The Beatles: A Hard Day ...
Mark Strassmann reports: In 1962 the Beatles were a Liverpool bar band. Freda Kelly was a legal secretary who watched them play during her lunch hour. She was just seventeen. "Once I saw them ...
“She was just seventeen” is one of the Beatles’ most famous lyrics and it’s interesting to see Queen put their own spin on it, the same way Queen put their own spin on the Beatles’ style.
Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn recounted how ... Paul reminisced, "I had 'She was just seventeen,' and then 'never been a beauty queen'. When I showed it to John, he screamed with laughter, and ...
The Beatles also flavored some of their popular early songs with a dash of innuendo. A rough draft of the song that became “I Saw Her Standing There” went: “She was just seventeen / Never be ...
she was just seventeen, you know what I mean.” “I don’t know what it means, but I know it’s dirty, he said. Womack, who is writing a biography of Beatles producer George Martin ...
Few people can claim to have spent the whole of their youth with The Beatles ... who had just left school, was working as a secretary in a Liverpool office. She used to sneak into The Cavern ...
‘I Saw Her Standing There’, the opening track on The Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’ album, remains one of their most iconic tracks. Its opening lyric (“Well, she was just seventeen / You ...
Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn recounts ... Paul remembered: "I had 'She was just seventeen,' and then 'never been a beauty ...