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Eight Days a WeekThe Beatles

Released: December 4, 1964

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney Paul McCartney John Lennon

Producer: George Martin

[Intro]

[Verse 1: John Lennon]
Ooh, I need your love, babe
Guess you know it's true
Hope you need my love, babe
Just like I need you

[Chorus: John Lennon & Paul McCartney]
Hold me, love me
Hold me, love me
I ain't got nothing but love, babe
Eight days a week

[Verse 2: John Lennon]
Love you everyday, girl
Always on my mind
One thing I can say girl
Love you all the time

[Chorus: John Lennon & Paul McCartney]
Hold me, love me
Hold me, love me
I ain't got nothing but love, girl
Eight days a week

[Bridge: John Lennon & Paul McCartney]
Eight days a week
I love you
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care

[Verse 3: John Lennon]
Ooh I need your love, babe
Guess you know it's true
Hope you need my love, babe
Just like I need you

[Chorus: John Lennon & Paul McCartney]
Hold me, love me
Hold me, love me
I ain't got nothing but love, babe
Eight days a week

[Bridge: John Lennon & Paul McCartney]
Eight days a week
I love you
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care

[Verse 4: John Lennon]
Love you everyday, girl
Always on my mind
One thing I can say, girl
Love you all the time

[Chorus: John Lennon & Paul McCartney]
Hold me, love me
Hold me, love me
I ain't got nothing but love, babe
Eight days a week
Eight days a week
Eight days a week

[Outro]

The Beatles

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.

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