Title:	Eight Days A Week
Credits:	John Lennon / Paul McCartney
Recorded	EMI Studios, London, 6th, 18th October, 1964, Abbey Road 2
Line- up	Lennon vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar, handclaps McCartney vocal, bass, handclaps Harrison vocal, lead guitar, handclaps Starr drums, handclaps
Producer	George Martin
Engineer	Norman Smith
Location	Beatles For Sale - track 8 Anthology 1 - disc 2, tracks 25/26
UK release	4th December 1964 (LP: Beatles For Sale)
US release	15th February 1965 (A single of "I Don't To Spoil The Party")

Proven by the original session tape, the Beatles used Abbey Road as a creative workshop during the recording of Eight Days A Week. A sequence of unreleased, incomplete out-takes - takes 1, 2 and 4 - have been assembled for this compilation, illustrating the differing approaches the Beatles considered for the song's intro. Take 5, complete, featured a vocal harmony ending, whereas the master version (Take 13) started and finished with guitar.

Featuring an innovative fade-up at the start (the impact of which is lessened on a CD player where the song does not begin a new side), Eight Days A Week is a catchy Lennon/McCartney song which they did indeed write together. John handles the lead vocal, Paul the backing harmonies.

Lewisohn reports the song was incomplete when The Beatles began recording and that they experimented with different intros and endings for the first six takes. On the remaining takes (7 - 13) they continued to work on take six. A mono mix (re-mix 1) was prepared October 12, but was never used. On October 18, The Beatles recorded edit pieces for the intro and outro of this song. The intro piece was never used. Both the mono and stereo mixes were prepared October 27, 1964 - an edit of re-mixes 2 and 3 from takes 13 and 15.

On February 26, 1987 the album "Beatles For Sale" was released in both the US and the UK on the CD format. Originally, a new stereo mix was prepared for this release; however, George Martin later remixed the album in mono. The new mono mix is found on the CD release of the album "Beatles For Sale."

Takes 1, 2 and 4 - all incomplete takes - from the October 1964 recording sessions were released on "The Beatles Anthology Volume 1." Take 5 was also released on this album in both the US and the UK on November 21, 1995.