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Pauli and the Cavern 56 3 Up the Smoke 97 4 Beatles for Sale 144 5 Lennon and McCartney 184 6 Avant-Garde London 211 7 Making the Albums 268 8 Sergeant Pepper 293 9 The Walrus Was Paul 349 10 The Maharishi 396 11 Apple 431 12 The White Album 481 13 Let It Be 526 14 John 568 Afterword 597 Bibliography 618 The Beatles have become so surrounded by myth, fantasy and speculation that determining anything other than the basic facts of their lives has become virtually impossible.

Please Please Me George Martin thought it was time for an album, and they were even given a day off to get down to London from Sunderland, in order to be fresh on the morning of 11 February when they were due to record ten new songs at Abbey Road.

One day was regarded as quite sufficient to record an album in those days.

The extra tracks required to make the album took the allotted one day to record.

The first single credited Lennon-McCartney, but for the next two singles and the first album it was McCartney-Lennon.

They had already perfected the basic tenets of composition, but now, with their second album, With the Beatles, released in November 1963, they began to introduce little tricks of their own which reappear as signatures in Lennon-McCartney songs.

Though the Beatles had not yet broken in the USA, their popularity in Britain was phenomenal and the idea of a quick exploitation movie, coupled with a soundtrack album, made considerable economic sense to them.

When we knew we were writing for something like an album he would write a few in his spare moments, like this batch here.

The songs written individually could appear at any time, but the songwriting meetings for a new single or album were planned in advance.

Night came the Beatles for Sale album with eight new Lennon-McCartney compositions.

I thought was quite good but it became an album filler rather than the great almighty single.

He knew the work of all the great early country artists like Jimmie Rodgers and years later, after the Beatles split up, he even recorded his own solo country and western album, Beaucoups of Blues.

Paul returned to London while the idea was still fresh, though it was essentially an album filler.

For the accompanying soundtrack album, an additional seven tracks were recorded, four of which were Lennon and McCartney compositions.

Paul had another song on the soundtrack album, one completely unlike anything the Beatles had ever released before.