" Eight Days a Week " is a song by the British rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon based on the original McCartney idea. The song was released in the UK in December 1964 on the album Beatles for Sale . In the United States, it was first published as a single in February 1965 before it appeared on the release of North America Beatles VI . The song is the seventh single # 1 of the band on the Billboard Hot 100, the success of the US chart is achieved in just one year. The single is also number 1 in Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The Beatles recorded "Eight Days a Week" at EMI Studios in London in October 1964. The song opened with a fade-in, marking the first time this technique was used on pop studio recordings. The song was re-published worldwide in 2000 on the Beatles compilation album 1 . It also gave the title for documentary director Ron Howard 2016 in the band's years as a live performer, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week .
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Inspiration
Paul McCartney links the inspiration of the song with at least two different sources. In a 1984 interview with Playboy magazine, he gave the title for one of Ringo Starr's malapropisms, which also gave titles to Lennon-McCartney songs "A Hard Day's Night" and "Tomorrow Never Knows". McCartney recalled: "He said it as if he was a driver who worked too much: 'Eight days a week.' When we heard it, we said, 'Really? Bing! Understand!' "
McCartney then gave the title to an actual driver who had driven her to Lennon's home in Weybridge. In the Beatles Anthology book he states: "I usually drive myself there, but the driver drove me that day and I said, 'How are you?' - 'Oh work hard,' he says, 'work eight days a week.' "In a 2016 interview with Starr and Ron Howard, in preparation for the release of The Beatles documentary: Eight Days a Week - The Touring For Years, McCartney repeated that he had heard it from a driver who drove him to the house Lennon when he was banned from driving. Starr says he's not the source of that phrase.
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Recording
"Eight Days a Week" is the first song that The Beatles took to an unfinished studio to do the setting during the session, an exercise that will become common for the band. The song was recorded on October 6, 1964 for two sessions that together lasted nearly seven hours, with fifteen minutes of rest in between. The band tried some ideas for intro and outro of the song. The first picks feature a simple acoustic guitar introduction. The second pick introduces the "oo" vocals that experiment with until the sixth take, when it is left for guitar intro. The last outro (along with unused intros) was recorded separately, on October 18th.
The completed song first put Beatles' first, in that it starts with a fade-in. "Eight Days a Week" marks the first time that fade-in has been used to unlock pop songs. Instrumentation on the track consists of acoustic guitars, electric guitars, drums, bass and handclaps that are too many. The fade-in and coda both include guitar overdubs, played by George Harrison on his 12-string Rickenbacker.
Release and acceptance
"Eight Days a Week" was released on Beatles for Sale on December 4, 1964. It was ranked as the opening theme on both sides of the LP. Describing the unusual effects provided by fade-ins, especially at the beginning of an LP side, author Mark Hertsgaard writes that it gives listeners a "sensation of listening to music before the song actually arrives, as if the sound was coming from a distance, like a flock migratory birds that suddenly fill the sky. "
The song, along with two others from the album ("Baby's in Black" and "No Reply"), is considered for one release. In the end, it was released as a single in the United States on February 15, 1965 (as Capitol 5371), becoming the number one hit (their seventh in the country). The B-side is "I Do not Want to Ruin the Party". The single's release in the US is the result of a DJ that plays songs from import copies of the Beatles for Sale album exclusively for not appearing on US partner albums, Beatles '65 , B. Both songs were included in the North American album Beatles VI , released in June 1965.
"Eight Days a Week" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on September 16, 1965. This was the last of seven songs by The Beatles to fill the Billboard Hot 100 for a one-year period, marking an all-time record for one half. In sequence, the seven songs are "I Want to Hold Your Hands", "He Loves You", "Can not Buy Me Love", "Love Me Do", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine" and "Eight Days a Week". WLS ranked the song at number 8 for all 1965. The song was also the second of six Hot 100 chart toppers in a row (excluding EP "4 - by The Beatles") by one act, another note at the time. Other singles in the show are "I Feel Fine", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!", "Yesterday", and "We Can Work It Out".
Personnel
- John Lennon - two track main vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, handclaps
- Paul McCartney - harmonic sound, bass guitar, handclaps
- George Harrison - backing vocals, lead guitars, handclaps
- Ringo Starr - drums, handclaps
- Personnel per Ian MacDonald
Live show
Even though it was a big American hit, the group did not think very much of a song (Lennon called it "bad") and they never did it straight away or in one of their radio sessions for the BBC. The only pantomime show for British television on the 3rd of April 1965 issue of the ITV series Thank You Lucky . No film or video recording of this episode is available and is considered missing.
Paul McCartney performed the song live for the first time by Beatle on May 4, 2013 at EstÃÆ'¡dio MineirÃÆ'Â o o, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and throughout the tour 2013-2015 Out There (but not at all events).
cover version
This song has been closed by:
- Alma Cogan in 1965 as a double-A sided single with "Help!".
- Procol Harum in 1975 on their album Procol's Ninth .
- Billy Preston in 1976 on his album Billy's Bag .
- The Runaways in 1978 on their album And Now... The Runaways .
- The Wright Brothers in 1984 on their album Easy Street ; Their version reached No. position. 57 on Billboard Hot Country Singles & amp; Track chart.
- The Moody Brothers in 1988 on their album Friends were recorded in Prague, Czechoslovakia with Jiri Brabec and Country Beat for Supraphon Records.
- Lorrie Morgan in 1989 on her album Let the Light Live .
- The Punkles did punk cover of this song in their first album in 1998.
- The Libertines in 2003.
- B. E. Taylor in 2006 on his album Love Never Fails .
- Ken Navarro on his 2012 album The Test of Time ; medley with "Ticket to Ride" and "Day Tripper".
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External links
- Alan W. Pollack's Notes about "Eight-Day Week"
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