The moment Paul McCartney played ‘Let It Be’ to the rest of The Beatles, 1969

But if you listen to outtakes from the sessions, you can hear the Beatles worked out harmonies for “Eight Days a Week”—beautiful harmonies, in fact. Yet they cut the harmonies and sang in unison, to make the song sound like it took less work than it did. They spent seven hours in the studio tinkering with “Eight Days a Week,” adding and subtracting

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Midway through his deep sleep, the riff for the famous Stones song appeared to him in a dream, which seems too unbelievable to be true, yet this tale isn’t a work of fiction. Luckily, the guitarist had a Phillips cassette player near his bedside and captured the magical piece of music rather than let it float into oblivion while half asleep.

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