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▶ The Isley Brothers

Twist and Shout

The Isley Brothers (1962) → The Beatles (1963)

Early R&B
→
Rock and roll
1962 — when R&B numbers demanded club-circuit toughness
Original

The Isley Brothers’ hit. Gospel heat and a rising bridge became forge material for British beat bands on Hamburg’s nightlife circuit.

Now playing
After
The Beatles — 1963

Rock and roll

The Beatles’ cover on Please Please Me (1963). Toughness forged in six-to-eight-hour Hamburg club sets, compressed into a single studio take of high-speed rock and roll.

Crucible phase of the Atlantic port network — U.S. R&B mutated into tough, high-speed rock and roll by The Beatles on the Hamburg stage.

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Crucible phase of the Atlantic port network — U.S. R&B mutated into tough, high-speed rock and roll by The Beatles on the Hamburg stage.

  • Stage protagonists

    The Beatles forged the cover into a standard on the Reeperbahn

  • Cover roots

    The Isley Brothers (1962) supply the R&B source heat

  • Club forge

    Night-after-night sets mutate the number into fast rock and roll

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