Comments on: Eight Days A Week

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:06:45 +0000

I saw an interview from 1965, Paul and some newspaper reporters. Paul said the original title was 8 times a week, meaning make love 8 times a week.
The sensors at the record company would not allow it. The reporter said
8 times a week? Yeah, Paul said everyday and twice on Sunday.
He was being real cheeky with the reporters. If you substitute 8 times a week for 8 days a week it makes sense.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:49:48 +0000

The mention was first POP song. The Wild One was country

By: 2much4mymirror

2much4mymirror — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 02:26:15 +0000

Paul: John said, ‘Right – “Ooh I need your love, babe…” and we wrote it. Veddy interesting. That sounds like Paul came up with the title but John spontaeously came up with the opening line and melody?

By: Not John

Not John — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:08:36 +0000

Axel gave you the answer. But, this song was create by John and Paul, no?

I don’t know why John was so negative with a lot of Beatles songs, like “It’s only love”. “Eight Days a Week it’s a song that i really like, and it’s a shame that i didn’t find a live presentation of this.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:40:25 +0000

I don’t think I would ever try to convince anyone that these two are among their “best songs”, but I love the recordings of both. Arrangements, vocal and instrumentation, are wonderful on both. And frankly, I wish they would have used the vocal intro and ending on “Eight Days…” instead of the guitar.

By: GM

GM — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:00:07 +0000

Good answer Axel. But am I wrong just looking at most of John’s comments on the songs he’s 90% negative and even on his own material. I guess that justifies it.

By: Sgt Pepper 67

Sgt Pepper 67 — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 03:59:48 +0000

John Lennon sings Lead
Paul McCartney sings the Harmony
George Harrison sings the backing on the “Eight Days A Week” part.

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:04:44 +0000

He’s just a jealous guy…. ;))

By: G M

G M — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:16:40 +0000

Why is John always so negative about most Beatle songs, especially Paul’s?

By: dgw28

dgw28 — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:29:20 +0000

Some of John’s issues with this song stemmed from struggling to hit the high notes. He was quoted as saying it was a really difficult recording session.

By: Donny

Donny — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:12:20 +0000

Agreed. John and Paul sing together throughout on both this track and on “Every Little Thing”. There isn’t ever a place in both tracks where John and Paul sing without each other.

By: Young Fred

Young Fred — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:37:30 +0000

In a 1993 or 94 Guitar World magazine, there was this article on Beatle Lessons where they described and printed in pentagrams and tabs the intro to this song and there were 3 guitars in it. By hating it, John did not notice they had accomplished a Great arrangement in that faded in intro.

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:22:47 +0000

Joe, there´s no George vocal here. Only John and Paul, almost all the way in unison, opening the harmony only in the bridge and in the chorus “eight days a week”. The other examples of that unusual blending of Paul´s and John´s voices are I Want To Hold Your Hand, From Me To You, Misery, Every Little Thing , I´ll Get You and Little Child. They sing almost the entire melody together, opening thirds here and there.

Thanks !

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:16:16 +0000

John and Paul all the way through.

By: James Ferrell

James Ferrell — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:58:42 +0000

There’s a lot of discussion here about whether Paul doubled John on the melody of the verses. I just went back and listened to takes 2, 4 and 5, from the Purple Chick Beatles for Sale, to see if they might help clarify things. Take 4 breaks down before the verse; on both takes 2 and 5 the verses are definitely doubled. More to the point, on take 2 they are doubled even though the song breaks down after about a minute. I tend to think they wouldn’t have bothered overdubbing a second John vocal on a take that had broken down, supporting the idea it’s John and Paul in unison.

Take 5 is a complete take, but again it sounds like the same Paul + John vocals with no vocal overdubs, to me. The final take does have overdubs, but I think the Paul + John unison lead vocal is still the core.

And, FWIW, despite what Lewisohn says, the introductory “oohs” on take 2 don’t climb the scale. Paul holds on an F# and John does a mostly descending line not unlike the bass line in shape (F# E D A G#— B— A—).

Very catchy song. I always really liked it, start to finish, John’s pooh-poohing notwithstanding.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 03:42:35 +0000

I see that the latest post for this is dated, Thursday 26 November 2015, I have come up with what I thought was “8 Days A Week”. If you are going to love your girl 8 days a week, start out with that same day, like Thursday through Thursday. That is 8 days. Although there is known that there is 7 days IN a week, when actually it is “8 Days A Week”

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:27:58 +0000

It´s definitely John and Paul , with no George on vocals. Where would it be ?

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:45:27 +0000

Love this song as it is just so catchy. Wonderful intro. Basically a Lennon song, even though he never thought much of it. I remember it so well from the radio and first got it when I obtained a copy of “Beatles For Sale” album. This song was of course a US number one.

I had always thought of it as a Lennon song, but obviously was originally McCartney’s idea and then a collaboration.

By: Richard Boene

Richard Boene — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:41:08 +0000

Thank you very much for taking my viewpoint into consideration Joe. Hopefully someday I will be able to contribute more to your site than mere attempts at counterbalance here and there.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:07:24 +0000

Hey Richard, no need to apologise! I couldn’t see anything wrong with your previous comment. Disagreement and debate are healthy.

I’ve changed the line-up to credit Lennon, McCartney and Harrison with vocals, but taken out the lead/harmony distinction. It’s not always helpful to put one person above the other, and I’d actually rather have the listener make up their own mind.