Above all, I want everyone who led us to this point to be held accountable in such a way that it is CENTURIES before someone thinks to try it again.

In ‘In My Life’ there’s an Elizabethan piano solo – we’d do things like that. We’d say, ‘Play it like Bach,’ or, ‘Could you put twelve bars in there?’ He helped us to develop a language a little, to talk to musicians. Because I’m very shy.

We’d be saying, ‘We want it to go un, un and ee, ee,’ and he’d say, ‘Well, look, chaps, I thought of this, this afternoon, and last night I was talking to… whoever, and I came up with this.’ And we’d say, ‘Great, great, come on, put it on here.’