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From today's featured article  Paul McCartney in 1976 "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. (Full article...)

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