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"Paperback Writer" is a 1966 rock song recorded and released by The Beatles.

Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney, the song was released as the A-side of their eleventh single.
The single went to the number one spot in the United Kingdom, United States, West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Norway.

Written in the form of a letter from an aspiring author to a publisher, "Paperback Writer" was the first UK Beatles single that was not a love song (though "Nowhere Man", which was a single in the US, was their first album song released with that distinction).

On the US Billboard Hot 100, the song was at number one for two non-consecutive weeks, being interrupted by Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night".

"Paperback Writer" was the last new song by The Beatles to be featured in their 1966 touring.

The track was recorded between 13 April and 14 April 1966.

"Paperback Writer" is marked by the boosted bass guitar sound throughout, partly in response to Lennon demanding to know why the bass on a certain Wilson Pickett record far exceeded the bass on any Beatles records. This changed with the "Paperback Writer" single.

"'Paperback Writer' was the first time the bass sound had been heard in all its excitement," said Beatles' engineer Geoff Emerick in Mark Lewisohn's book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.

"To get the loud bass sound, Paul played a different bass, a Rickenbacker. Then we boosted it further by using a loudspeaker as a microphone. We positioned it directly in front of the bass speaker and the moving diaphragm of the second speaker made the electric current."

Emerick stated that the "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" single was cut louder than any other Beatles record up to that time, due to a new piece of equipment used in the mastering process, referred to as "Automatic Transient Overload Control", which was devised by the EMI maintenance department.

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  • Sir or madam will you read my book it took me years to wright will you take a look its based on a novel by a man named lyre and I need a job so I wanna be a paperback writer. PAPERBACK WRITER!

  • @zukolover666

    i once dreamed i was on the middle 70's and i bring the beatles back togheter !!

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  • At all the comments wondering who "the man named Lear" is, I thought he meant "lire" which is read in French but that's just me being stupid. It was the first thing that came to mind when I heard it :-/

  • 1:31 Ringo. "No it's cool guys. You got this song. I'll just be the cool one here. Sup?"

  • i like how Ringo is just sitting there doing nothing. i guess he's just too badass to do anything.

  • @RandomPerson9899 Well i hope you used spell check on your novel, *Write

  • hay me encanta ver sus lindos ojitos hermosos los AMO <3

  • "Alright guys, we got the permission to play in this garden!"

    :D :D :D :D

    "They just don't want us to have the drums in here. That works guys?"

    :D :D :D D:

  • 3 people don't want to be paperback writers.

  • Ringo is too cool for them.

  • Where's ringo's drumming? ... Poor Ringo.

  • Ringo is just chilling in the back :)

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