Three days before their 1964 autumn tour of the UK, The Beatles were at Abbey Road with an idea for a song. ⁠ ⁠ This was the first time they had gone into the studio with an unfinished number, but it was a way of working that would become increasingly common over the next few years. ⁠ ⁠ They spent nearly four hours on ‘Eight Days A Week’ that day, and for the following two weeks the consensus was that it would be their next single. ⁠ ⁠ “I’d been busted for speeding, so I had to have a driver to

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