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  Cover Iwannabeyourmanstonesjpg
  Artist The Rolling Stones
  B-side " Stoned " ( Nanker Phelge )
  Released 1 November 1963
  Format 7" Single
  Genre Beat
  Label Decca Records
  Writer John Lennon / Paul McCartney
  Producer Andrew Loog Oldham
  Chart Position UK: #12, 16 weeks
  Last Single " Come On "<br>(1963)
  This Single "I Wanna Be Your Man"<br>(1963)
  Next Single " Not Fade Away <br>(1964)


  Name I Wanna Be Your Man
  Cover Withthebeatlescoverjpg
  Artist The Beatles
  Album With The Beatles
  Released November 22 , 1963
  Track No 11
  Genre Beat
  Length 1:58
  Writer McCartney/Lennon
  Label Parlophone
  Producer George Martin
  Misc {{Extra tracklisting
  Album With The Beatles
  Type studio
  Tracks Side one




"I Wanna Be Your Man" is a rock song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney , and recorded separately by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones . Although The Beatles' version is better-known today, the Rolling Stones' version was released earlier.

The Beatles' version was sung by Ringo Starr and appeared on the album '' With The Beatles ''. It was driven by a heavily tremoloed, open E chord on a guitar played through a Vox AC30 amplifier with the "tremolo" setting turned up.

The Rolling Stones' version, an early hit Single for them, was very "bluesy" and featured Brian Jones ' distinctive Slide Guitar . It also is one of the few Stones songs to feature backing vocals by Jones.

According to various accounts, either the Rolling Stones' manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham or the Rolling Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as the two were returning from an awards luncheon. Listening to the Rolling Stones' camp plea for a single, the pair travelled back to rehearsal and finished off the song—whose verse they had already been working on—in the corner of the room while the impressed Rolling Stones watched. Lennon later commented, "That shows how much importance we put on it. We weren't going to give them anything ''great'', right?"Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', p. 154, quoting an interview in ''Hit Parader''


CREDITS FOR THE BEATLES' VERSION

  • John Lennon – rhythm guitar, harmony vocal

  • Paul McCartney – bass, harmony vocal

  • George Harrison – lead guitar

  • Ringo Starr – drums, maracas, lead vocal

  • George Martin – Hammond organ



CREDITS FOR THE ROLLING STONES' VERSION

(In contrast to the Beatles' performance, the Rolling Stones' rendition did not appear on a regular album. It first appeared as a single. In 1989 it was issued on ''.'')


COVER VERSIONS

  • Richards would often perform a live "cover" of the song during the 1980s when performing solo.




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