"We are going in with clear heads and hoping for the best," an optimistic Paul McCartney announced as sessions for the Beatles' new album lurched forward in the late spring of 1968. "We had hoped this time to do a lot of rehearsing before we reached the studios … but, as it happens, all we got was one day."
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