DO YOU REMEMBER? Billboard #1 HOT 100 (This Week in 1967) The Beatles: Hello Goodbye Hello, Goodbye is a song by the Beatles. The song was released as a single in November 1967, and topped the charts in the US and UK. Though the songwriting credit is Lennon–McCartney, it was written solely by Paul McCartney. Alistair Taylor, who worked for the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, had 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—black and white, yes and no, stop and go, hello and goodbye. 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. Hello, Goodbye topped the charts in both the United States and Britain where it spent seven weeks at number one, and was the Christmas number one for 1967. John Lennon was not impressed with the popularity of the song, saying incredulously, I Am the Walrus was the B side to Hello, Goodbye,! Can you believe it? The Beatles
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