On first hearing “She Loves You”

On an episode of Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4), the writer Lee Child talks about hearing “She Loves You” for the first time:

I was eight, going on nine, and I was depressed, because I was trapped in this strict home, this grey postwar austerity. I felt no horizons. And we were on some dreadful family holiday in a caravan in Wales, and the rain was lashing down, and my other family members were getting me down, so I went out to sit in the car. And I turned on the radio — and it was an old valve radio; it sort of warmed up slowly, crackly. And the first thing I heard was Brian Matthews, on the Saturday Club. He said, “Here it is, the new one from the Beatles.” And it was “She Loves You,” which starts out with a tiny little drum fill from Ringo and then the first chorus. It's about eleven seconds, I think, and in those eleven seconds my life changed totally. I felt the sun had come out. I felt there was joy, there was happiness, there was energy in the world. Most of all, I felt there was something for me.

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Lee Child : Saturday Club (Wikipedia)

[My transcription.]