ONE CHORD CHANGED EVERYTHING — THE BEATLES’ QUIET SONGWRITING MOMENT THAT OPENED THE DOOR TO AMERICA
By late 1963, The Beatles had already conquered Britain, but America still felt like another world. Their records had not yet broken through in the way manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin hoped, and the biggest music market on earth remained uncertain territory. For John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were still writing face-to-face…