Wednesday 23 July 2014

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BEATLES

  • 2013: Paul live at Plains of Abraham, Quebec City, Canad.The 23rd concert of Paul‘s Out There tour took place at the Plains of Abraham in Canada’s Quebec City. 
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  • 1969: Recording: Oh! Darling, Come Together, The End.
    Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
    Producer: George Martin
    Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald

    This day’s session began with Paul McCartney finally recording a satisfactory lead vocal for Oh! Darling.
    Paul had been arriving at the studio early each day for several mid-July 1969 sessions, in an attempt to capture a suitably raw take. He taped just one performance on each day before setting Oh! Darling aside for another day. On this afternoon, however, the final attempt was recorded.More vocals were then added to Come Together, before work began on The End, which at this stage had the working title of Ending.
    The Beatles began by rehearsing the song a number of times, before recording seven takes of the backing track. The best, take seven, was 1’20″ long, but was extended after overdubs were added at a later date.
    The backing track featured guitar, bass, drums and piano. The drums were, uniquely on a Beatles recording, taped onto two tracks of the eight-track tape. Ringo Starr‘s drum solo changed slightly with each take.
    The day ended with an hour-long playback of songs recorded so far, held in the control room of Studio Two.

  • 1968: Recording, mixing: Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, Good Night.
    Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
    Producer: George Martin
    Engineer: Ken Scott

    This session, which took place from 7pm-2.30am, saw the completion of Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, and mono mixes of the song and Good Night.
    John recorded a new lead vocal onto take 10 of Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, replacing the previous effort from 1 July 1968.
    Two reduction mixes, numbered takes 11 and 12, were then made, and a second lead vocal track was added, along with background shouting, handclaps, and additional snare drum by Ringo following the title. Paul also recorded a second bass guitar part, which can be heard from 2’03″ in the final recording.An edit is also likely to have been made during this session, at 2’11″, although the tape logs show no documentation. The song was then mixed in mono in five attempts, but a better version, along with the stereo mix, was made on 12 October.
    The session ended with the creation of six mono mixes of Good Night.

  • 1967: The Beatles go sightseeing in Greece
  • 1965: UK single release: Help!
  • 1964: Live: The Night Of A Hundred Stars
  • 1963: Live: Odeon Cinema, Weston-super-Mare
  • 1962: Live: Kingsway Club, Southport
  • 1961: Live: Blair Hall, Liverpool
  • 1960: Live: Grosvenor Ballroom, Wallasey

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