"Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney sort of in a dream, but these are the exceptions, not the rule.)

Has he (more recently) had more nightmares than dreams? Good post Genie, with some interesting points.

What I find fascinating is their ability to write batches of songs at a time, say, for a particular album. I often think this is where you get some stinkers; the difference is people like me don't have the luxury of massive amounts of studio time to record the really crappy stuff, so there is a silver lining to limited opportunity.

I think that is why I used the example of Titian. Many 'hangers on', critcs, galley owners in the case of fine art and record companies, agents and promoters, in the case of music, stand to make money from pushing the mere 'NAME' of the artist, rather than the quality of the art. Much fine art gets buried in this process.

So our complete commercial failure, is actually an advantage to songwriting and really a form success! *Smiles*