“Paperback Writer” – Single by the Beatles
Released 30 May 1966
Songwriters Lennon–McCartney
Producers George Martin
Charted No.1 in US; No.1 in UK; No.1 in Canada; No.1 in Australia; NO.1 in Ireland; No.1 in West Germany; No.6 in Italy.
Video:
Director – Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
Producer – Subafilms Ltd.
Filmed – 20 May 1966.
Location – Chiswick House, Chiswick, London.
‘Paperback Writer’ was No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic during the week of 25 June 1966 and while it spent a second week at the top in Britain, in America Frank Sinatra’s ‘Strangers In the Night’ interrupted its twoweek run. A successful single, it also has the distinction of being the last new song that The Beatles played live on stage during their US tour of 1966.
This video was filmed on 20 May 1966 at Chiswick House, an 18th century Palladian mansion in Burlington Lane, West London. Filming took place in its beautiful grounds, which are among the earliest examples of the English Landscape School, with shots of the band wandering around and sitting mixed with sequences of them performing.
