The Beatles – Drive My Car

“Drive My Car” – single by The Beatles from the album Rubber Soul, released inDecember 1965. Written by: Lennon-McCartney.

‘Drive My Car’ was recorded on 13 October 1965. The session began at 7pm and ended at 12.15am – The Beatles’ first to end after midnight.

The group took some time to perfect the arrangement for ‘Drive My Car’. Although they recorded four takes of the rhythm track, only the last of these was complete.

The basic arrangement had Paul McCartney on bass guitar, George Harrison playing guitar – contradicting his Anthology recollections – John Lennon on tambourine, and Ringo Starr on drums. The group then overdubbed piano, lead guitar, piano and cowbell parts, along with lead vocals by Lennon and McCartney, and backing vocals by Harrison.

It has been suggested that the song also refers to the relationship between Cilla Black and her then boyfriend Bobby Willis (whom she later married). Black was both a friend of the Beatles and a protégée of Brian Epstein. As the TV mini-series Cilla revealed, Willis was also offered a recording contract by Epstein, but Black objected, saying that she was the “star” and Willis was to be the road manager who would “drive my car”

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