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Maybe listen to Mike Williams? He has a timeline that he has created from years of research. He can answer your questions. He is a dedicated musician and was a diehard Beatle fan.

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If you can't answer these questions after listening to Mike, than the answers are too convoluted to make sense. Sorry, not buying that trash.

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Aug 27, 2023
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"The Beatles themselves said they didn't write on the road. " BULLSHIT. So many of their tunes were written on the road, including PS I Love You. In 1962l Things We Said Today.........

" The early music they were playing were cover songs, not originals" They started writing tunes in the 1950s. If they weren't playing, who was playing in the clubs? Why did the audiences and club manages love them? I've heard club recording, your can hear the Mersey Beat taking shape. Rose in just three years? Three years of solid playing, day after day?

Quite obvious that you don't play music.

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Aug 27, 2023
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Well, there is write, and there is write.

In one documentary, the Beatles are in their suite at the Waldorf Astoria (that's New York City) in 1964 or 1965, and John has a Honer Melodica (a kind of small, air-blown keyboard about 12-inches long), and he is working out the introductory chords to Strawberry Fields Forever. He is clearly on the road, and he is clearly working on a song тАФ that we all know. Their known material was very different at the time, and this offers (me anyway) insight into how long it can take to develop a song -- it comes out worlds away in 1967.

In another example of writing on the road, much of the White Album was written when they were in India.

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Love Me Do written in 1958.

PS I Love You written in Hamburg in 1962

From Me To You, on a bus from York to Shrewsbury. Feb '63

She Loves You, hotel in Newcastle, 6/26/63,

All My Loving, written on a bus on tour,.

I could go on.

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https://youtu.be/0FnVOTmKoqU

Interesting statement.."strictly speaking a little bit impossible"

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He did NOT say it didn't happen. SHEESH!! You still haven't explained the claim that they didn't write on the road and said so compared to all the tunes i came up with even by Spring '64 which were written... on the road.

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He did laugh at the thought

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The claim, I will need time to work on to present, if you don't want to research the channel. It makes sense to me, but I will study it, as time allows, to be able to post here effectively

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BBC interview with John and Paul August 1966. Paul- "The only time we need to force ourselves to write songs is when an Lp or film comes up." He also said "We don't write between lps normally, maybe one or two, then we write a great big batch".

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Aug 31, 2023
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I am trying to find a short clip of the interview with John and Paul in the early 60's to post. One of them says something like "we wrote in batches" as opposed to out of studio time. One of them said 'we may write one or two. "

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Sage of Quay on You Tube

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