Difference between revisions of "Day Tripper"

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“Day Tripper”

Single by The Beatles

Released

3 December 1965

Format

Recorded

Abbey Road Studios: 16 October 1965

Genre

Rock

Length

2:46

Label

Writer(s)

Producer

The Beatles singles chronology

"Help!"
(UK-1965) / "Yesterday"
(US-1965)

"Day Tripper"
(1965)

"Paperback Writer"
(UK-1966) / "Nowhere Man"
(US-1965)

“	Me. But I think Paul helped with the verse.	„
—John Lennon, 1972

“	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?".	„
—John Lennon, 1980

“	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.	„
—Paul McCartney, 1994

Watch a video of a "performance":

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 | Last single    = "[[Help!]]"<br/>(UK-1965) / "[[Yesterday]]"<br/>(US-1965)
-| This single    = "Help!"<br/>(1965)
+| This single    = "Day Tripper"<br/>(1965)
 | Next single    = "[[Paperback Writer]]" <br/>(UK-1966) / "[[Nowhere Man]]" <br/>(US-1965)
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