Hello, goodbye

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Hello, goodbye
The Beatles
publication November 24, 1967
length 3 min 27 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Magical Mystery Tour

Hello, Goodbye ( English Hello, goodbye ) is a song by the Beatles and was released on November 24, 1967 as a single with the B-side I Am the Walrus . It later also appeared on the LP version of Magical Mystery Tour and the accompanying film .

history

The song is under the copyright of Lennon / McCartney , which was common in Beatles times . The recordings for Hello, Goodbye took place at Abbey Road Studios and lasted from October 2 to November 2, 1967, when Paul McCartney completed his last bass track. The song originally emerged from an exercise and initially had the working title Hello Hello . John Lennon and Paul McCartney found the text through an associative game.

Lennon disliked the fact that his composition I Am the Walrus was only used as the b-side of the single. He thought this was better because he only liked the end of Hello, Goodbye .

Charts and chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 1 (14 weeks) 14th
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 2 (16 weeks) 16
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 2 (6 weeks) 6th
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 1 (14 weeks) 14th
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 1 (11 weeks) 11

Others

  • On the compilation album Magical Mystery Tour the title is written without the comma (Hello Goodbye).
  • In 2003 a cover version of the song by Massive Inc. feat. Raffaela, which was used in E-Plus TV commercials .

Web links

literature

  • Ian MacDonald: The Beatles - Das Song Lexikon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hello, Goodbye on beatlesbible.com (English). Retrieved December 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  3. ↑ The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour at Discogs (English)