Paul McCartney recalled how he and John Lennon used to get excited at the prospect of being given a whole week to write a Beatles album.
The duo notched more than 180 co-credits in a period of just a little more than seven years, meaning they wrote an average of 26 songs each year. But they didn’t think there was anything unusual in their prolific output, as McCartney told Uncle Joe Benson on the Ultimate Classic Rock Nights radio show.
“We were used to writing fast,” he said. “You do what you’re used to. You do what, like, they tell you. The way we worked was, we’d be touring, like, all the year, maybe, I don’t know, 300 days out of 365. I think it was more than that. Every night. You never had a night off.
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