Which Hawaiian word has come to mean both hello and goodbye?
Hello, Goodbye identifies as a "Maori finale – a mistake for 'Hawaiian' ("aloha")". The coda consists of a repeated musical phrase over a pedal point in C major, accompanied by the vocal refrain "Helaheba-hello-a". The Beatles began recording "Hello, Goodbye" at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in October 1967, towards the end of filming for their "Magical Mystery Tour" television special. The latter was a film project that McCartney had championed, in an effort to focus the group in the wake of Epstein's death that August. Under the working title "Hello Hello", the Beatles taped the basic track for the song on 2
Hello, Goodbye quality of the song itself". Rob Sheffield of "Rolling Stone" considers that, at this stage in their career, "the Beatles didn't need to push – they could have hit #1 with a tape of themselves blowing their noses", which, he suggests, "would have been catchier" than both "Hello, Goodbye" and the band's next single, "Lady Madonna". Writing for Rough Guides, Chris Ingham describes "Hello, Goodbye" as a "harmless, facile word and chord-play that kept the far more challenging 'Walrus' from being the A-side of the [Beatles'] first post-Epstein single". In the opinion of cultural commentator Steven D. Stark, the song