"Paperback Writer" is a 1966 rock song recorded and released by The Beatles. 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 States, United Kingdom, 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 U.S., was their first album song released with that distinction). On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, The song's two-week stay at number one was interrupted by Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night".
"Paperback Writer" was one of the last new songs by The Beatles to be featured in concert, being included on their 1966 tour. The Beatles were a pop and rock group from Liverpool; England formed in 1960. Primarily.
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