26 May, 1967.

Well this is no surprise really. I went to sleep last night listening to the rain and woke up this morning to the same sound. It’s only reasonable then to expect a song that mentions rain. Thankfully there are no holes though, in the roof or otherwise. The last thing I need today is more drips (I deal with enough of them in an average day thank you very much).

Written by Paul McCartney, although credited to Lennon-McCartney, this appeared on the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Apparently, McCartney wrote the lyrics after fixing the roof of his home in Scotland and has stated himself that the song was “about the hole in the road where the rain gets in, a good old analogy—the hole in your make-up which lets the rain in and stops your mind from going where it will.”

While the song was never released as a single, the album itself was of course a resounding success. It sold 250,000 copies in its first week on sale and spent twenty-three consecutive weeks on the UK album chart, not including the four weeks it spent at number one. It also spent fifteen weeks at the top of the US album chart, as well as reaching number one in Australia, Canada, Germany and Norway.