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Originally Posted by Superman
I have to respectfully, but strongly, disagree. In my mind, one of the most striking things about the Beatles' early popularity explosion is that it did not happen suddenly or accidentally. Before their hit records began in 1963, they had completed five tours to Hamburg. In Hamburg, they ate, slept and played music. Hours and hours per day. Literally thousands of gigs. This was the rock and roll equivalent of a perfectly tuned four-cam Porsche engine.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in his book, Outliers. His theme is that it takes 10k hours of practice to become great and that's about how many hours the Beatles played in Hamburg before getting famous in the UK.