“Eight Days A Week” by The Beatles

"Eight Days a Week" sprang from an idea of Paul McCartney's, finished off with John Lennon, and it turned up on Beatles for Sale in December 1964 after the group cut it at EMI Studios in London that October. It starts with a trick: the sound fades up out of nothing, one of the first pop records to open that way, before Lennon's lead vocal comes bounding in with McCartney and George Harrison singing behind him.

Harrison's twelve-string rings out, Lennon strums acoustic, McCartney holds down the bass and Ringo Starr keeps it rolling, with all four clapping along; George Martin produced. In America and Canada it went out as a single in February 1965 and became the band's seventh number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Ron Howard later borrowed the title for his 2016 documentary about their touring years.

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