Eight Days a Week

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Eight Days a Week
The Beatles
publication 4th December 1964
length 2 min 45 s
Genre (s) Pop rock
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Beatles for Sale

Eight Days a Week ( English Eight days a week ) is a song by British rock band The Beatles in 1964. It was mainly by Paul McCartney wrote, however, stating the usual with the Beatles authorship Lennon / McCartney released. The song appeared on the fourth studio album of the band Beatles for Sale on December 4, 1964. A striking feature of the song is the intro , which consists of a fade-in, which is unusual for the Beatles and generally in pop music .

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Emergence

Paul McCartney had the idea for the song, but in later interviews he told two different stories about the origin of the song title. On the one hand, he attributed the saying to the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr , whose puns were repeatedly used for song titles ( A Hard Day's Night and Tomorrow Never Knows ) . In another interview, McCartney reported that the saying came from a chauffeur who once drove him to see John Lennon .

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The song was recorded on October 6, 1964 at London's Abbey Road Studios . The producer was George Martin . While the Beatles have always appeared in the studio for their recordings with finished arrangements, the arrangement for Eight Days a Week was created directly in the studio. The recordings took a total of seven hours, with a quarter of an hour break. For the beginning of the song, Lennon and McCartney tried different ideas. The intro was initially only played on acoustic guitars, which were expanded to include vocals in later takes . Initially, the recording had a classic beginning, the fade-in was only introduced into the recording sessions from take 6 and was retained until the best take 13. The intro, published later, was taken from Take 7 of the session. The outro of the song was recorded separately on October 18, 1964.

publication

In the UK, the song appeared on the fourth studio album Beatles for Sale in December 1964 . In the USA, however, it was released as a single on February 15, 1965 and reached first place on the Billboard charts . In November 1995 the album Anthology 1 released a compilation of outtakes from attempts 1, 2 and 4 (under the title Eight Days a Week [sequence] ) and the complete take 5, which has an alternative arrangement (under the Title Eight Days a Week [complete] ).

Cover version

In 1975, Procol Harum released the song on their eighth studio album Procol's Ninth .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions , 1988, p. 49