"I've Just Seen a Face" is a Beatles song written and sung by Paul McCartney (pictured), first released on the album Help! in August 1965. A cheerful ballad of love at first sight, it may have been inspired by McCartney's relationship with actress Jane Asher. The Beatles recorded it on 14 June 1965 at EMI Studios in London, on the same day "I'm Down" and "Yesterday" were recorded. The song fuses country and western with other musical genres, including folk rock, folk, pop rock and bluegrass. Several reviewers have described the song in favourable terms, highlighting its rhyming lyricism and McCartney's vocal delivery, and describing it as an overlooked song. It replaced "Drive My Car" on the North American version of Rubber Soul in December 1965, furthering the album's identity as a folk rock work, although some commentators viewed this change as masking the band's late-1965 creative developments. It was among the first Beatles songs McCartney played live with his group Wings.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1822:
In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine, an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
1900:
The second of the German Naval Laws was passed, doubling the size of the Imperial German Navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Naval_Laws
1944:
Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Perch
1966:
The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
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When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. --Donald Trump https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Trump