George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles in their London backyard.
Before Beatlemania and The Ed Sullivan Show; before they met Queen Elizabeth and smoked pot with Bob Dylan;
before they sprouted drooping mustaches, dropped acid, discovered
sitars and pilgrimaged to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Himalayan retreat;
before John met Yoko, before the walrus was Paul;
before they took over popular music and, um, transformed Western
culture – before all that, at 10 in the morning on February 11th, 1963, the Beatles
were merely the world's finest little rock & roll band, gathered at
Abbey Road studios in London to make a debut album. Twelve hours later,
they'd done it. Of all the astonishing things about Please Please Me
– and there are many – the most impressive may simply be the
quick-and-dirty haste with which it was recorded. In 2011, it can take a
band a dozen hours to mike the kick drum. But in a single long day –
with just a £400 budget – the Beatles laid down 10 songs for their
album, including some of their most indelible early performances: "I Saw
Her Standing There," "There's a Place," "Do You Want to Know a Secret,"
"Baby It's You." The day's work wrapped up, sometime around 10:45, with
a shirtless John Lennon roaring himself hoarse through two takes of
"Twist and Shout." "It was amazingly cheap, no messing, just a massive
effort from us," Paul McCartney later recalled. "At the end of the day,
you had your album."
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Please Please Me, the debut album of The Beatles released on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom and on 27 January 1964 in Spain, the Spanish tribute band Los Escarabajos has launched The Long Play Sessions (From Cage to Stage). It consists of an ambitious recording and filming project of the Beatles discography in its evolution from rehearsals to live performances, with replicas of the instruments and effects similar to those used on the original masters.
ReplyDeleteThe Long Play Sessions is the result of One By One (Onthological Tour), realized between 2009 and 2010, whose objective was to play all the Beatles catalogue in concert. The success of this experience led the University of Seville to give an Honorary Degree to Los Escarabajos, after the founding member, Enrique Sánchez, taught the course The Beatles: Music And Image. The subtitle of the project refers to the process of bringing the sound from the studio to the show.
Thus, from 22 March 2013, Los Escarabajos will be periodically publishing each of the fourteen tracks from Please Please Me on their YouTube channel, named TheLongPlaySessions and created expressly for this purpose, until arriving at the second LP of the Fab Four, With The Beatles, and so on. The first song, "I Saw Her Standing There", can be seen on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYohs_9t2pk
"Misery" is the second song from Please Please Me that Spanish tribute band Los Escarabajos has published on its YouTube channel TheLongPlaySessions, the recording and filming project of the Beatles discography in its evolution from rehearsals to live performances. This latest video was released on 8 April after the success of "I Saw Her Standing There" from 22 March 2013, the date of the LP's 50th anniversary, and the next one, "Anna (Go To Him)", will be available on 25 April. "Misery" can be seen on the following link:
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"Anna (Go To Him)" is the third song from Please Please Me that Spanish tribute band Los Escarabajos has published on its YouTube channel TheLongPlaySessions, the recording and filming project of the Beatles discography in its evolution from rehearsals to live performances. This latest video was released on 25 April after the success of the previous clips that began to be issued on 22 March 2013, the date of the LP's 50th anniversary, and the next one, "Chains", will be available on 13 May. "Anna (Go To Him)" can be seen on the following link:
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