Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
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I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.
The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.
We've written something like 900 songs in all.