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"Hello Goodbye"

"Hello Goodbye" cover

Single by The Beatles

from the album Magical Mystery Tour in the U.S.''

B-side(s)

"I Am the Walrus"

Released

1967-11-24 (UK)
1967-11-27 (U.S.)

Format

Recorded

Abbey Road: 1967-10-02–1967-11-02

Genre

Pop

Length

3:27

Label

Parlophone (UK)
Capitol Records (U.S.)

Writer(s)

Lennon/McCartney

Producer(s)

George Martin

Peak chart positions

The Beatles singles chronology

"All You Need Is Love"
(1967)

"Hello Goodbye"
(1967)

"Lady Madonna"
(1968)

Magical Mystery Tour track listing

"I Am the Walrus"
(6)

"Hello Goodbye"
(7)

"Strawberry Fields Forever"
(8)

"Hello Goodbye" is a 1967 song by the The Beatles. It was the Christmas single for 1967, and topped the charts in both the United States and Britain (where it spent seven weeks at number one). It also appeared on the American album Magical Mystery Tour—in fact, the song was recorded during sessions for the British double EP of the same name, though the LP is the current official version.

Though the songwriting credit is Lennon/McCartney, it was written only by Paul McCartney.

Alistair Taylor, who worked for the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, once asked McCartney how he wrote his songs, and McCartney took him into his dining room to give him a demonstration on his harmonium. He asked Taylor to shout the opposite of whatever he sang as he played the instrument. Taylor later said, "I wonder whether Paul really made up that song as he went along or whether it was running through his head already." In any case, McCartney soon had completed a demo of his newest single — originally titled "Hello Hello".

John Lennon wasn't fond of the song, which he called "three minutes of contradictions and meaningless juxtapositions." His distaste for the song grew further when it pushed "I Am the Walrus" to the B-side of the single. Though Lennon had anticipated "I Am the Walrus" being the A-side of the single, Paul McCartney and George Martin believed that "Hello Goodbye" was the more commercial tune (their judgement was vindicated when the song hit Number 1, and was particularly popular in the American charts). This dispute fed the series of debates over single releases between Lennon and McCartney which prompted Lennon to say after the Beatles' breakup, "I got sick and tired of being Paul's backup band". Lennon felt that some of his best and most innovative pieces ("I Am the Walrus", "Across the Universe") were wrongly placed as B-sides to songs he regarded as "un-worthy" ("Hello Goodbye" and "Lady Madonna"), although he was willing to compromise with fellow songwriter McCartney during this period with songs he considered stronger, such as "Hey Jude".

The final lines of the song, where the entire band sings "Hela, hey-ba hello-a" (the portion that plays over the end titles of the Magical Mystery Tour film) came spontaneously in the studio. When the song was released, McCartney gave a more mystical explanation of the meaning of his song in an interview with Disc: "The answer to everything is simple. It's a song about everything and nothing. If you have black you have to have white. That's the amazing thing about life."

At least three promotional videos were filmed for "Hello Goodbye", but not aired by the BBC due to its strict rules on miming.

An alternate version of the song was released on The Beatles Anthology series, containing a guitar part for melody rather than the original strings.

Notes

hellogoodbye, a pop band, did not derive it's name from this song as is commonly believed. It actually comes from a quote by Screech Powers, a fictional character from "Saved by the Bell", a U.S. Sitcom.
This song was used in ESPN's promotional ad for David Beckham's first game in the MLS.

Preceded by "Daydream Believer" by The Monkees	Billboard Hot 100 number one single December 30 1967	Succeeded by "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" by John Fred and His Playboy Band
Preceded by "Let the Heartaches Begin" by Long John Baldry	UK number one single December 6 1967 for seven weeks	Succeeded by "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" by Georgie Fame
Preceded by '''Tom Jones "Green Green Grass of Home"'''	'UK Christmas Number One single'' Hello Goodbye 1967'''	Succeeded by '''The Scaffold "Lily The Pink"'''

References

Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song, Harper, New York: 1994, ISBN 0-06-095065-X

• • [ e] The Beatles Singles
Singles (UK - Parlophone, Apple Records)
1962: Love Me Do 1963: Please Please Me, From Me to You, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand 1964: Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's Night, I Feel Fine 1965: Ticket to Ride, Help!, Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 1966: Paperback Writer, Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine 1967: Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, Hello Goodbye 1968: Lady Madonna, Hey Jude 1969: Get Back / Don't Let Me Down, Ballad of John and Yoko, Something / Come Together 1970: Let It Be 1976: Yesterday, Back in the U.S.S.R. 1978: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / A Day in the Life • 1982: The Beatles Movie Medley, Love Me Do (reissue) 1995: Baby It's You, Free as a Bird 1996: Real Love
B-sides
1962: P.S. I Love You 1963: Ask Me Why, Thank You Girl, I'll Get You, This Boy 1964: You Can't Do That, Things We Said Today, She's a Woman 1965: Yes It Is, I'm Down 1966: Rain 1967: Baby You're a Rich Man, I Am the Walrus 1968: The Inner Light, Revolution 1969: Old Brown Shoe 1970: You Know My Name (Look up the Number) 1976: I Should Have Known Better, Twist and Shout 1982: I'm Happy Just to Dance with You, P.S. I Love You (reissue) 1995: I'll Follow the Sun / Devil in Her Heart / Boys, Christmas Time (Is Here Again) 1996: Baby's in Black
Singles (U.S. - Capitol Records, Apple Records)
1963: I Want to Hold Your Hand 1964: Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's Night, I'll Cry Instead, And I Love Her, Matchbox, I Feel Fine 1965: Eight Days a Week, Ticket to Ride, Help!, Yesterday, We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper 1966: Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer, Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine 1967: Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever, All You Need Is Love, Hello, Goodbye 1968: Lady Madonna, Hey Jude 1969: Get Back / Don't Let Me Down, Ballad of John and Yoko, Something / Come Together 1970: Let It Be, The Long and Winding Road 1976: Got to Get You into My Life 1978: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / A Day in the Life 1982: The Beatles Movie Medley 1986: Twist and Shout 1995: Baby It's You, Free as a Bird 1996: Real Love
B-sides
1963: I Saw Her Standing There 1964: You Can't Do That, I Should Have Known Better, I'm Happy Just to Dance with You, If I Fell, Slow Down, She's a Woman 1965: I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, Yes It Is, I'm Down, Act Naturally 1966: What Goes On, Rain 1967: Baby You're a Rich Man, I Am the Walrus 1968: The Inner Light, Revolution 1969: Old Brown Shoe 1970: You Know My Name (Look up the Number), For You Blue 1976: Helter Skelter 1982: I'm Happy Just to Dance with You 1986: There's a Place 1995: I'll Follow the Sun / Devil in Her Heart / Boys, I Saw Her Standing There / This Boy / Christmas Time (Is Here Again) 1996: Baby's in Black / Yellow Submarine / Here, There and Everywhere

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B-side(s) "Baby You're a Rich Man"
Released 7 July 1967 (UK)
17 July 1967 (US)
Format 7"
Recorded Olympic Studios
14 June 1967
Genre Rock
Length 3:47
Label Parlophone R5620 (UK)
Capitol 5964 (US)

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B-side(s) "The Inner Light"
Released March 15 1968 (UK) March 18 1968 (US)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road
February 3 and February 6 1968
Genre Rock and Roll
Length 2:16
Label Parlophone (UK)
Capitol Records (U.S.
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A-side(s) "Penny Lane"
Released February 13 1967 (UK)
February 17 1967 (US)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road Studios
November–December 1966
Genre Psychedelic rock, acid rock
Length 4:10
Label Parlophone (UK)
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