"She Loves You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released as a single in the United Kingdom on 23 August 1963.

[3] In November 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "She Loves You" number 64 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Lennon and McCartney started composing "She Loves You" on 26 June 1963 after a concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle upon Tyne during their tour with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

They began writing the song on the tour bus, and continued later that night at their hotel in Newcastle[5][nb 1] eventually completing it the following day at McCartney's family home in Forthlin Road, Liverpool.

[17] The electric instruments are mixed higher than before, especially McCartney's bass, adding to the sense of musical power that the record provides.

He cites "She Loves You" as one of the first examples where the Beatles introduced folk chord changes into rock music and so initiated the new genre.

[22] These songs were all influential in providing a template for successfully assimilating folk-based chord progressions and melodies into pop music.

[24] A true stereo mix of "She Loves You," created by Giles Martin using AI technology commissioned by filmmaker Peter Jackson, was finally released in 2023 as part of the expanded edition of the 1962–1966 compilation album.

The band thought it unnecessary, but were asked by George Martin to comply, recording "Sie liebt dich" on 29 January 1964, along with "Komm, gib mir deine Hand", at the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris.

[30] The song's run on the charts coincided with the 13 October 1963 performance of the group on Sunday Night at the London Palladium and the emergence of full-blown Beatlemania in the United Kingdom.

[33] It was the best-selling single of any artist in the UK for 14 years until it was surpassed by Wings' "Mull of Kintyre" (written by McCartney and Denny Laine).

[33] The group's lack of success in the US puzzled the Beatles' producer George Martin and manager Brian Epstein, given their huge hits in the UK.

Transglobal Music, an affiliate of EMI, held the licences to their output in the US, and promptly ordered Vee-Jay to halt their manufacturing and distribution of Beatles records.

To avoid potential disagreements and lawsuits, the contract signed with Swan licensed to them only "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You", enough only for the A- and B-sides of a single – and only for two years.

Coincidental with the song's climb up the Canadian charts on 10 December, Walter Cronkite decided to transmit the piece again on the CBS Evening News,[39] and the resulting interest led to the rush-release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand"—only weeks before the Beatles' arrival[40]—on 26 December 1963.

[35] Beatlemania took hold of America, spurred by the group's appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, where they performed this among other songs.

[45] American consumers bought "Sie Liebt Dich" in modest numbers, leading to a chart peak of No.

[46] It was the first time an artist had replaced themselves at the summit of the American album charts, and this provided a hint of the successes the Beatles would continue to achieve.

[47] It was played by Ontario radio station CKWS the next month, and entered the national CHUM Chart on 2 December 1963.

[30] Before the Beatles' breakthrough with "She Loves You", British acts had only managed sporadic successes in continental European markets.

[49][29][37] The Daily Mirror's approving editorial of 5 November 1963, following the Beatles' acclaimed appearance at the Royal Variety Performance the night before, was entitled "Yeah!

[17] A New York Times account describing the Animals' introductory concert in the city later that year repeated the phrase in description of the group.

In the 22 January 1965, Flintstones episode "The Hatrocks and The Gruesomes", as new hillbilly neighbors, the "Hatrocks" (who, it is revealed early on, hate 'Bug Music' by 'The Four Insects'—an obvious dig at the Beatles at the time), outgrow their welcome, the Flintstones and Rubbles rig their radio and phone and, wearing Beatle wigs, broadcast a performance of "She Said 'Yeah!

[54] Even more fundamentally, Marcus posed the question of what one would tell a Martian who landed and asked the meaning of rock and roll?

National radio in the form of the BBC broadcast the single and "in some quarters it was seen to hail the collapse of civilised society".

[17] In 1965, at the 11th Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Communist German Democratic Republic, the party's General Secretary Walter Ulbricht referenced the song in a famous speech about copying culture from the Western world, by using the refrain: "Is it truly the case that we have to copy every dirt that comes from the West?

[58][59] British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home made a gaffe in February 1964: his speechwriters, trying to make him appear in touch with popular culture, wrote him the line, "I'm too modest to claim the country loves us, but you know that can't be bad."

On 27 July 2012, a portion of "She Loves You" as well as footage of the band performing the song was included in a montage of British music during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Although not one of the new songs that predominated in their July 1964 film debut A Hard Day's Night, it was used as the finale of the concert that closes the movie.

The song was also included on the American promotional version of the Rarities album, issued as the bonus disc in the limited edition boxed set The Beatles Collection, in November 1978.