and Mel at the Vanguard and how Roland Hanna laid out a lot on piano but would drop in these little melodic fragments, chords or rhythms that were like commas or periods. Alan had gone to the Creative Music Studio at Woodstock. At one point he tried to teach us some of the concepts ...
George Martin:While we were recording “Oh! Darling,” the dead deer that Paul had dragged into the studio was doing interesting things such as lifting its head up and screaming things like, “Still I live!” and “For some reason I have the memories of a man from the Middle Ages! I ...