The Beatles: Eight Days A Week- The Touring Years came out last year but I watched it for the first time last night.
It streams on Hulu but you can rent it at all the other places…do what you need to do and watch it.
It’s frantic and slow at the same time.
But here’s one of the main things…
It’s not that you’re too busy, it’s that you don’t write enough…and thereby you’re songs aren’t good enough.
Beatlemania was happening and their release schedule was one single every three months and an album every six months.
Now in all caps.
BEATLEMANIA WAS HAPPENING AND THEIR RELEASE SCHEDULE WAS ONE SINGLE EVERY THREE MONTHS AND AN ALBUM EVERY SIX MONTHS.
Oh and by the way those (original) singles every three months were songs like Can’t Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Please Please Me, From Me To You…the list goes on.
And the albums (which for the most part DID NOT have the previous singles on them) were albums like Meet The Beatles, Hard Days Night, and Help.
I can’t stress this enough…they were experiencing the busiest schedule ever known to a band and never ever ever let the writing fall to the wayside…never didn’t make time for it.
They just loved writing (listen to Jerry Seinfeld on Howard Stern and Jerry tells his Paul McCartney story that ends with Paul saying “we just loved to write”)
Watch the documentary. There’s a million things to learn and remember…and the performance of the song Help is maybe the best I’ve ever heard them ‘live’.
Dive in. It’s all there.
(Here’s a link to the full discography and release schedule. It’s mind blowing. Now let’s get back to work.)
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