There are only seven days in a week, but if another were added, John Lennon would have love left over for his girl on that day too. There are two possibilities on where the title came from. In Bob Spitz' The Beatles: The Biography, Paul McCartney claims that he asked his chauffeur (while being driven to John's house in Weybridge) if he was busy, and got the answer "Busy? I've been working eight days a week." In a later interview, Paul says that it was Ringo who coined the phrase: "He said it as though he were an overworked chauffeur. When we heard it we said 'Really?' Bing! Got it"! John Lennon also claimed it was one of Ringo's malapropisms.
"Eight Days A Week" fades up from silence; it was the first pop song to do so. This was risky because radio stations abhor silence, but The Beatles could get away with it.
The Beatles wrote this for the movie Help, which was at one point titled "Eight arms to hold you."
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