You gotta knock on doors if you believe in something. I call people all the time. “What’s exciting? Who’s looking? When can I get them in the studio?” I don’t think it should be intimidating. It’s music, not life and death. And the people in this business all want the sa...
The majority of the animal sound effects were assembled on this day but were not overdubbed onto the song until later. With some overdubs to “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!” being performed at some point during this day as well, the doors of EMI Studio Two were finally closed at...
Barry Miles, in the book “Many Years From Now,” explains that “Paul wrote 'Penny Lane' in the music room at Cavendish Avenue, on the piano which had recently been painted with its psychedelic rainbow by David Vaughan,” which he then brings out was delivered “in December of 1966.”...
piano work in the final choruses is up to his usual high standards and is placed suitably low in the mix as not to detract from the simple message of the song. Coming off of the extravagant production of the “Sgt. Pepper” album, they still knew how to pull out all the stops to ...