Paperback Writer

Abbey Road always used to be my favorite Beatles album.

But I contend Revolver, from which this next song, Paperback Rider, came from those sessions.

It will be launched as a single, but Paperback Rider is going to be one of the first songs that rocks.

You know, I was really a fan of the Beatles when I was a kid.

And then I kind of grew out of them once I started to discover other bands like The Doors and The Who.

Yeah, I'm not going to fight you on this, Cliff.

I can understand why you and many people...

Listen to a song like Tomorrow Never Knows and know that on the same album as Tomorrow Never Knows, there is Yellow Submarine and Paperback Rider.

Next, it is actually funny because I really struggled, and we'll get to this, with the singles, the non-album singles.

I wanted to have Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, and Paperback Rider.

I wanted all of them.

And honestly, at different points, I did.

This question is to the minister for Britpop.

Minister.

Daytripper, We Can Work It Out, Paperback Rider, Rain.

These are all singles in this pre-Peppers era and did not end up on any of their albums.

Some great stories we'll get into.

Joe Walsh and the Beatles' sound on, on Paperback Writer.

I'm doing a little teaser out there-

Mm-hmm

I think that kinda bumps the original artist out to the side a little bit.

But s- this is gonna bring me to how they create that sound that's gonna emulate, you know, Tom Petty exactly, or Fleetwood Mac.

So tell me the story about The Beatles' Paperback Writer and Klaus Voormann.

Well, that's, uh, two boys from Barcelona, Spain, a company called Acclam.

But even better than that, the B-side is Yellow Submarine, which is an absolute banger.

And then, of course, Paperback Writer was also a big hit that year as well, which I also love.

But I thought, well, what can I choose? If I choose Yellow Submarine, it'll annoy Colin.

If I choose Eleanor Rigby, it'll annoy Geoff.

my opinion, the best three monkey songs are.

Well, the three monkey songs which I like the most are, but my favourite is...

Well, the guitar riff, because none of the band played one, only Mickey Dolenz was changing the subject from the English vocabulary, was played by Louis Shelton in an attempt to emulate the clearly identifiable guitar riffs of the Beatles, like I Feel Fine, Day Tripper, Paperback Writer.

And Bobby Hart, one of the co-writers of the song, he misheard...

You start

with Paperback Rider and run

all

the way up to the bottom.

Paperback Rider was an underrated song.

You're absolutely right, Tim.

Up against the break.

Mm.

You know, where I would just listen to, um, Let It Be and, uh, over and over again, and "Paperback Writer" and "Day Tripper" and, uh, just what great production those records were and what great songwriting.

So I'm about ready to do...

Okay, so Stones is probably "Wild Horses", "Paperback Writer".

Mm.

Um-

I've heard you reference "Day Tripper" a lot, just the guitar sound.

Yeah, but I think "Paperback Writer"-