a change from his typical love songs; in author Howard Sounes' interpretation, "You Won't See Me" presents McCartney as "bitter" and "the jealous boyfriend". McCartney later said of the band's approach to songwriting on Rubber Soul: "We'd had our cute period, and now it was time to expand." Recording The Beatles recorded "You Won't See Me" during the last day of recording for Rubber Soul – an all-night session that started at 6 pm on 11 November 1965. The deadline for completing the album was up, and the band needed to record three songs that night, in addition to finishing work on "I'm Looking Through You". As a result, they cut the song in only two takes. At 3:22, it was the longest track the Beatles had recorded up to this point. The fadeout is slightly longer on the mono mix. McCartney played piano on the basic track and then overdubbed his bass part. The tempo gradually slows down throughout the song, a point that music journalist Robert Fontenot attributes to McCartney leading the performance on piano, rather than Ringo Starr's timekeeping abilities on the drums. In author Jonathan Gould's description of the song, the tempo appears to "drag" due to McCartney's "hyperactive Motown-style bass line". Mal Evans, one of the Beatles' roadies, is credited on the album sleeve as having played Hammond organ. His contribution consists solely of an A note held throughout the final verse and the coda. Gould also comments on the effect achieved by John Lennon and George Harrison's wordless backing vocals over the verses, saying that their voices represent "a pair of deaf ears" by "embodying the girl's indifference" to McCartney's complaints. Starr augmented his drum part with a separate hi-hat overdub, adding rhythmic accents throughout the song. Release and reception Rubber Soul was released on 3 December 1965 on EMI's Parlophone record label. "You Won't See Me" was sequenced as the third track, between Lennon's "Norwegian Wood" and "Nowhere Man". While the album was an immediate commercial success, some reviewers in the UK were unprepared for the artistic progression the Beatles had made in their musical arrangements and as lyricists. In his review for Record Mirror, Richard Green wrote: "It is possible to say that Lennon and McCartney are the great songwriting team of the day and that Beatles performances are spot-on, but this LP cannot support that statement." He included "You Won't See