



Seen in rose-colored retrospect, Paul McCartney's opening count-off for this song--"One-two-three-faw!!"--is like the countdown to a new era of music. Despite the song's opening innuendo ("She was just seventeen, and you know what I mean"), the song encapsulates the thrill of Beatlemania as thoroughly as does "I Want to Hold Your Hand": raucousness for anyone looking for it, but relatively safe for generationally-threatened adults. And make no mistake: After all these years, the song still rocks. It's hard to believe that it took some convincing of producer George Martin that Lennon and McCartney were real songwriters.
(C) 2008, It's All Too Much.