Day Tripper
| "Day Tripper" | ||||
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| Single by the Beatles | ||||
| A-side | "We Can Work It Out" (double A-side) | |||
| Released | 3 December 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 16 October 1965 | |||
| Studio | EMI, London | |||
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| Length | 2:50 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney | |||
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |||
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"Day Tripper" is a song by English rock band the Beatles. It was released as a double A-side single with "We Can Work it Out" on 3 December 1965. This was at the same time as the band's album Rubber Soul. It was written mainly by John Lennon, but was listed as Lennon–McCartney.[1] It was part of the first double A-side in the United Kingdom.[2] "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work it Out" was the 7th highest selling single of the 1960s in the United Kingdom.[3] The main part of the song is a guitar riff that Lennon wrote.[4][5] He got the idea for this riff from Bobby Parker's song "Watch Your Step".[6]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Everett 2001, p. 316.
- ↑ Hutchins, Chris (4 December 1965). "Music Capitals of the World". Billboard. p. 26.
- ↑ "Ken Dodd 'third best-selling artist of 1960s'". BBC News. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ↑ Riley 2002, pp. 172–73.
- ↑ Pollack, Alan W. (6 March 2000) [21 June 1989]. "Notes on 'Day Tripper'". Soundscapes. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ↑ Ingham 2006, p. 186.
Sources
[change | change source]- Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514105-9.
- Riley, Tim (2002) [1988]. Tell Me Why – The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81120-3.
- Ingham, Chris (2006). The Rough Guide to the Beatles. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-720-5.
