Eight Days a Week */ The Beatles ’ Full Instrumental

Ain’t got nothing but love, babe. And a Rickenbacker 12-string! Another perfect piece of Beatle pop from 1964. Recorded on Tuesday, October 6, 1964, in the middle of the “Beatles For Sale“ sessions, “Eight Days a Week“ is a deceptively simple sounding pop gem. A harbinger of things to come - this was notable for being the first Beatles song brought incomplete into the studio and workshopped into final form at Abbey Road. While I didn’t feature it here, this is also the only Beatles song with a fade-in! John Lennon never thought this song reached its potential, calling it “lousy.“ On the inspiration, he later said “I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for ’Help!’ because there was at one time the thought of calling the film Eight Arms To Hold You.“ McCartney took credit for the title, which was apparently a line from his chauffer. Instrumentally, we have some interesting little bits, a