The Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn torrent

The Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes 1962-1970


At last: the complete, official,inside-the-studio details of
every Beatles recording session

Suspending microphones inside water jars,recording guitar
solos backward, and cutting up tape and splicing it back
together in random order, the Beatles experimented
tirelessly. From the raw energy of their made-in-a-day debut
LP Please Please Me through the technical genius of the
seminal Sgt Pepper to the last album they recorded, the
finely crafted Abbey Road, the Beatles sustained an
unsurpassed level of creativity in the recording studio.
They used the Abbey Road recording studio in ways no studio
had been used before, and in the process they completely
revolutionized popular music.

The photos, stories, and recording details in The Beatles:
Recording Sessions open up this magic laboratory where the
Beatles created the sounds that changed the world. For every
day the Beatles ever laid down a track in the recording
studio, this book details what songs they were recording,
who was present, how many takes were done, what special
effects or techniques were employed, and any thing unusual
that happened that day. Here are the Beatles as you've never
seen them before: John Lennon asking to be suspended from
the ceiling with a rope around his waist and spun over a
microphone to achieve a unique vocal effect; George Harrison
running around the studio holding a flaming ash trayover his
head while Paul McCartney records the vocals of "Helter
Skelter"; and rock- steady Ringo, after one of his rare
foul-ups, grousing "We all make mistakes."

EMI Records, the Beatles' British record label, has made
available to author Mark Lewisohn its unpublished
documentation for every recording session the Beatles ever
did, and has allowed him to listen to the hundreds of hours
of alternative takes and unreleased tracks in their archive.
From these sources, in combination with interviews with Paul
McCartney and the producers, engineers, session musicians,
and others who were in the studio with the band, Lewisohn
has created a thorough, fascinating, and definitive record
of the Beatles at work.