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Post by Lydia Purple on Dec 19, 2013 13:11:20 GMT -8
The Beatles had their ninth consecutive UK no.1 when they topped the chart for five weeks with the double-A sided "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out". Released separately in America, "We Can Work It Out" topped the US chart for three weeks, but "Day Tripper" was only able to make it to no.5.
In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, Lennon 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. For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.
In "Many Years From Now", McCartney said that "Day Tripper" was about drugs, and "a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was ... committed only in part to the idea." The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a prick teaser."
(Source: Wikipedia & The History of Rock Day by Day)
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