"I Saw Her Standing There" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

In December 1963, Capitol Records released the song in the United States as the B-side on the label's first single by the Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand".

[2] According to Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn, McCartney first worked out the chords and arrangement on an acoustic guitar at the family home of his Liverpool friend and fellow musician Rory Storm on the evening of 22 October 1962.

[3] Two days later, McCartney was writing lines for the song during a visit to London with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer, who was seventeen at the time herself.

[4] The song was completed about a month later at McCartney's Forthlin Road home in collaboration with Lennon[5] and performed as part of their set in December 1962 in the Star-Club in Hamburg.

McCartney later described in Beat Instrumental how he went about the song's composition: "Here's one example of a bit I pinched from someone: I used the bass riff from 'Talkin' About You' by Chuck Berry in 'I Saw Her Standing There'.

Must change that ...'"[10] Lennon said: "That's Paul doing his usual good job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler'.

The full take 9 version of the song appears on the "Free as a Bird" CD single as a B side, released for the first time.

In its contemporary review of the US single, Cash Box described it as an "engaging" song that is "hard-hitting teen stuff.

It featured special guest drummer Dave Grohl, the lead singer of the Foo Fighters and ex-drummer of Nirvana.

He was supported by an all-star band featuring Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Mark Knopfler, and Ray King.

Interviewed at the time, McCartney said: "It is a good thrill playing with musicians of this calibre ... since it was a birthday thing, they wanted to do something silly at the end, and that's me".

[29] George Harrison and Ringo Starr also performed the song with Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan, amongst others, at the Beatles' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Despite negative reception, Tiffany's cover became a success, reaching the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart.

Richard Lowe of Smash Hits considered this cover "an affront to taste and decency and will visibly cringe every time they hear that nasty little 'synth' 'riff'.

"[35] In a review for the Delaware County Daily Times, Len LaBarth criticized the cover as being "quite horrid.