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For the recreational activity, see Day-tripper.
"Day Tripper" is a song by English rock band The Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it was released as a double A-side single with "We Can Work It Out". Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The song topped the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
[edit] Composition
Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market,[1] Lennon wrote most of the lyrics and the famous guitar break, while McCartney helped with the verses. "Day-tripper" was a typical play on words by John: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of . . . you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?"[2] In the same interview Lennon said, "That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit."[2] In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, he used "Day Tripper" as one example of their collaboration, where one partner had the main idea but the other took up the cause and completed it.[3] For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.[4] The lyric may be partly about McCartney's reluctance to experiment with LSD.[citation needed] (Lennon and Harrison had been using LSD since the spring of 1965, when a London dentist slipped it into their coffee after an evening meal.[5] In August, Lennon confessed that he "just ate it all the time.") On the face of it, however, the song is about a girl who leads the singer on. The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a prick teaser."[4] In this sense, it may equally be about the aloof heroine from "Norwegian Wood." In Many Years From Now, McCartney admitted that "Day Tripper" was about drugs.[4] According to Ian MacDonald, the song "starts as a twelve-bar blues in E, which makes a feint at turning into a twelve-bar in the relative minor (i.e. the chorus) before doubling back to the expected B—another joke from a group which had clearly decided that it was to be their new gimmick."[6] Indeed, in 1966 McCartney said in Melody Maker that "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" (recorded three days prior) were "funny songs, songs with jokes in." McCartney provides the lead vocal and Lennon the harmony, in contrast to the Beatles' usual practice of a song's principal composer singing lead. This a rare example of a Beatles song that was mainly written by Lennon, but sung by McCartney. [edit] RecordingThe song was recorded on 16 October 1965 at Abbey Road Studios. The Beatles recorded the basic rhythm track for "If I Needed Someone" after completing "Day Tripper".[1] The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on Past Masters, Volume Two) in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears;[7] this may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation 1. Though not released on any album in the United Kingdom, it was released in the US on the album "Yesterday and Today". The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered this song. It can be found on their BBC Sessions. Bad Brains covered this song in dub reggae format as a staple at live shows during the tour for I Against I. [edit] Credits
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