Like most freelance writers, I have a notepad full of jottings which come under the loose category of ‘Ideas I Probably Won’t Get Round To Doing As I Doubt Anyone Will Be Interested, They’re A Bit Rubbish Anyway And It Probably Wouldn’t Pay Much’. Around halfway down this list is a book provisionally entitled A Hard Day’s Fight , in which I espouse my opinions on a plethora of Beatles-related debates, and add a few new ones of my own.

So along with my theories that John Lennon didn’t write any good music while he was resident in New York (the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums were recorded in the UK, and Double Fantasy was written in Bermuda), and that Beatles For Sale should have been an EP (everything other than ‘No Reply’, ‘I’m A Loser’, ‘I’ll Follow The Sun’ and ‘Eight Days

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