The Beatles have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. According to the RIAA, they are the best-selling band in the United States, with 177 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful "Hot 100" artists. As of 2013, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with 20. They have received 7 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and 15 Ivor Novello Awards. Collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, the Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with EMI Records estimating sales of over one billion units. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Beatles as the best artist of all-time.
This is the fifteenth in a series of 20 caches to celebrate the Beatles' twenty U.S. number-one singles.
"Hello, Goodbye" is a song by the Beatles. The song was released as a single in November 1967, and topped the charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Norway. The song also was a number two hit in both Austria and Switzerland.
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" was released as a single on 24 November 1967. In the US, the song was also included on the Magical Mystery Tour album released three days later, but the song was not made available in the UK on an album (or in stereo) until the release of the 1973 compilation album 1967–1970. With the release of the song, McCartney gave an explanation of its meaning in an interview with Disc: "The answer to everything is simple. It's a song about everything and nothing. If you have black you have to have white. That's the amazing thing about life." In the US, Capitol Records omitted the comma in the song’s title in the packaging of the single (as did some of EMI’s partners in other countries), and also the Magical Mystery Tour LP (which was subsequently adopted for the CD release of this album).
"Hello, Goodbye" topped the charts in the United States, becoming the band's 15th #1 there. It also topped the charts in 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?"
"Hello, Goodbye"
You say "Yes"
I say "No"
You say "Stop"
And I say "Go, go, go"
Oh no
You say "Goodbye"
And I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello"
I say "High"
You say "Low"
You say "Why?"
And I say "I don't know"
Oh no
You say "Goodbye"
And I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello"
(Hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye. Hello, goodbye. Hello, goodbye.)
Why, why, why, why, why, why, do you
Say "Goodbye, goodbye, bye, bye"
Oh no
You say "Goodbye"
And I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello"
You say "Yes"
I say "No"
(I say "Yes", but I may mean "No")
You say "Stop"
I say "Go, go, go"
(I can stay still it's time to go)
Oh, oh no
You say "Goodbye"
And I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say "Goodbye"
I say "Hello-wow, oh. Hello"
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa (Hela.)
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa
Hela, heba, helloa
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