re: What do you think is the most overrated song by The Beatles?

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"She Loves You" is one of the greatest rock & roll records ever made

We've been singing this one in our garage band and when you hit that last note it's incredible.

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Even as a kid I thought the harmonies on that lingering note were one of the best sounds I'd heard in a song. From Wiki:

"George Martin, the Beatles' producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison.[16] "They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George [Harrison] doing the sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord. It was just like a Glenn Miller arrangement."[8] The device had also been used by country music-influenced artists in the 1950s.[13] McCartney later reflected: "We took it to George Martin and sang 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeeaah ...' and that tight little sixth cluster we had at the end. George [Martin] said: 'It's very corny, I would never end on a sixth'. But we said 'It's such a great sound, it doesn't matter'".[6] The Beatles: Complete Scores shows only the notes D (the fifth) and E (the sixth) sung for the final chord,[17] while on the recording McCartney sang G (the root) as Harrison sang E and Lennon sang D.:"