Difference between revisions of "Day Tripper"
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| Released = 3 December 1965 | | Released = 3 December 1965 | ||
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| Last single = "[[Help!]]"<br/>(UK-1965) / "[[Yesterday]]"<br/>(US-1965) | | Last single = "[[Help!]]"<br/>(UK-1965) / "[[Yesterday]]"<br/>(US-1965) | ||
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| − | | Next single = "[[Paperback Writer]]" <br/>(UK-1966) / "[[Nowhere Man]]" <br/>(US- | + | | Next single = "[[Paperback Writer]]" <br/>(UK-1966) / "[[Nowhere Man]]" <br/>(US-1966) |
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{{cquote|Acid was coming on the scene, and we'd often do these songs about 'the girl who thought she was it.' Mainly the impetus for that used to come from John-- I think John met quite a few girls who thought they were it... But this was just a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was a day tripper, a sunday painter, a sunday driver, somebody who was committed only in part to the idea. Where we saw ourselves as full-time trippers, fully committed drivers, she was just a day tripper. That was a co-written effort-- we were both making it all up but I would give John the main credit.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}} | {{cquote|Acid was coming on the scene, and we'd often do these songs about 'the girl who thought she was it.' Mainly the impetus for that used to come from John-- I think John met quite a few girls who thought they were it... But this was just a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was a day tripper, a sunday painter, a sunday driver, somebody who was committed only in part to the idea. Where we saw ourselves as full-time trippers, fully committed drivers, she was just a day tripper. That was a co-written effort-- we were both making it all up but I would give John the main credit.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}} | ||
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| Single by The Beatles | |||||
| B-side | "We Can Work It Out" | ||||
| Released | 3 December 1965 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios: 16 October 1965 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 2:46 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone (UK) Capitol (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||
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| “ | Me. But I think Paul helped with the verse. | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1972 |
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| “ | That's mine. Including the guitar lick, the guitar break, and the whole bit. It's just a rock 'n roll song. Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferry boat or somethng. But it was kind of-- you know, you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?". | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1980 |
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| “ | Acid was coming on the scene, and we'd often do these songs about 'the girl who thought she was it.' Mainly the impetus for that used to come from John-- I think John met quite a few girls who thought they were it... But this was just a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was a day tripper, a sunday painter, a sunday driver, somebody who was committed only in part to the idea. Where we saw ourselves as full-time trippers, fully committed drivers, she was just a day tripper. That was a co-written effort-- we were both making it all up but I would give John the main credit. | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, 1994 |
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