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Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all 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.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.