I Want To Hold Your Hand: The Beatles A Letter To The Beatles

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For this week’s assignment, we are asked to look for a song that is inspired by an older song. It can sound like it, or it can borrow lyrics from it. After I read the assignment and understood what is being asked from us, I then jumped in the opportunity to research about it. I never realized that most hits nowadays are derived from old songs, it’s actually amazing. According to Steve Jobs (1994) “Good Artists copy, Great artists steal”, this quote applies to most music nowadays. I don’t live by that quote but I believe that he just pointed out the obvious with what he said. My research brought me to a site that shows the roots of a song, it can tell you where it was derived or if you searched an older song, it will tell you what songs were derived from it. The Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand is one of my favorite songs, and it’s a classic so I went with that, I looked and found one song that stood out the most. The song that …show more content…

I Want to Hold Your Hand is about a guy who is in love with a girl and wants the girl to be his. It’s a romantic song that talks about his feelings. It’s such a feel good song and a very sweet one. I Want to Hold Your Hand shows a lot of The Beatle’s personality when it comes to music, John Lennon and Paul McCartney really knows how to write good music that can appeal to most people even until today and that is beautiful.
A Letter to the Beatles was written by Ivan Ulz, Glen Larsen, and Bruce Bellard. It’s basically mocking The Beatles’ song. I’m a big fan of The Beatles but this song made me smile because of how catchy it is. It sampled the chorus of I Want To Hold Your Hand and it talks about a girl who is in love with The Beatles but is rejected by them saying that her love wasn’t enough and that she should send them twenty-five cents for an autographed picture, and one dollar bill for a fan club

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