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by late May 1968 The Beatles had
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returned to England from rishy KES in
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their quest for inner peace they'
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returned very different people they
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stopped caring so much about fashionable
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clothing replaced their witty humor for
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a more serious Melancholy attitude and
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cared very little about working together
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as a unit this of course all came out in
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their music they were now due to start
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recording sessions for their next album
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an album they would never agree on a
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title for Paul later referred to it as
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the tension album it would be known as
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The White Album in the summer of 68 the
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youth were looking to musicians for
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Spiritual and political
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advice so involved with music messages
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were ciphered from album covers records
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were spammed Backwards lyrics were
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dissected for hidden messages and when I
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played it backwards and spun it
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backwards it said
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turn me on dead
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man turn me on dead
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man I freaked The White Album was the
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first of the Beatles records which
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seemingly fed into this fanaticism with
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lyrics like here's another clue for you
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all the warus was poor and in their
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lives there's something lacking what
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they need is a damn good whacking
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reality they were just mixing up poetry
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and nonsense which was being
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misinterpreted the songs recorded didn't
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merge together as one and the finished
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product was ultimately a collection of
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solo recordings on release the Beatles
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was slighted as not as adventurous as
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Peppa by some critics and far more
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imaginative than Peppa by others this is
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the story of The White
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Album in January of 1968 the beatos had
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started a company called apple and
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decided to manage the themselves after
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the death of Brian Epstein the reason I
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diverge to Apple is the company was the
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Catalyst to many arguments between the
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four ultimately driving them in four
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separate directions the only reason
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they' started the company is their
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accountant had told them they had 2
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million they could either lose in tax or
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invest in a company in hindsight maybe
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the former would have been the wiser
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decision not only would they shell out
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more money into Apple it was a
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distraction from the only thing that
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mattered their music
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The White Album sessions marked the
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First Time The Beatles brought their
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personal problems into their work life
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those at Emi until that point knew
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nothing of their private lives
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disagreements they were having in apple
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meetings began to spill over into the
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sessions but not just that Paul and
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George began disagreeing on the
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structure of songs Paul also began
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watching Ringo closely and critiquing
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his drumming and John began bringing his
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girlfriend into the sessions if all this
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wasn't wasn't difficult enough Emi had
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just employed a new studio engineer
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called Alan stag stag according to
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engineer Jeff Emerick was a nightmare
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and a power freak clueless arrogant and
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rude one time when stag was working with
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Pink Floyd in studio 3 he turned the
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power off during a session because they
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were working past the closing time of
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10:00 he installed fabrics and sheets
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into Studio 1 because he didn't like the
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sound Emer believed he destroyed
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destroyed the
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Acoustics on his first day arriving at
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ABY Road stag called everyone into
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Studio 1 and basically told them if they
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didn't follow his direction there's the
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door bear in mind there were people
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who'd been working in ABY Road for 30 or
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40 years being told by this by a man on
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his first day one of the biggest
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problems with stag was he was of the
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opinion anyone was replaceable no
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engineer was unique and so Stag's Mantra
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became if you don't like it leave
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engineers at this time at ABY Road
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recorded consistently with the same
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bands it was comfortable for everyone
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stag juggled them around just for the
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sake of it maybe he didn't understand
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this but most likely he just didn't care
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he was exercising his power later in
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1969 stag would resign after the staff
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got together and Emi and
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complained but for now everything was
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right for The Perfect Storm in May the
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Beatles meet at George's Bungalow to
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record demos for their next album they
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record on George's Apex real tooreal
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tape recorder 27 songs are recorded it
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is suspected however John and Paul
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brought over songs that recorded at
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their individual homes as they had tape
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recorders too the group sit in George's
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living room playing each song amongst a
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cloud of jtic smoke they will struggle
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to replicate this relaxed atmosphere
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later in Abby Road when everything is
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recorded George mixes all the songs
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himself and gives the finished product
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to each four Beatles these 27 demo tapes
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later become known as The White Album
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unplugged the tapes were leaked and
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later sold as the Kim Thorn's demos some
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of these demos like Blackbird and Julia
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will appear in the album in acoustic
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form played Solo in the time it takes to
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record all of these songs in the studio
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they will have written more to feature
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on the album the sessions begin May 30th
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in studio 2 George Martin as producer
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and Engineers Jeff Emerick and Phil
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McDonald by this point it's currently in
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the newspapers John and George have left
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rishy KES due to the maharishi's
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advances towards a young
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woman this day JN is in a noticeably bad
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mood and when asked how India was lenon
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responds it was okay apart from that
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nasty little
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Maharishi George who's listening
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interjects oh come on he wasn't that bad
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Ringo then adds it was like a butlin's
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Holiday Camp only the food wasn't as
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good as for Paul he says nothing about
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India just stares
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expressionless one thing is for sure
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their time in India had left a bit of
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taste in their mouth so to speak it had
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been George's idea to go to India and
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when they returned he wrote the song Not
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Guilty basically saying don't blame me
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for what happened
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that day they begin talking about John's
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new Guru a former television repair man
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who boasted of being able to create
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incredible things such as paint that
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turns anything invisible and x-ray
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glasses that see through walls he'd been
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nicknamed Magic Alex John was fascinated
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with technology but also clueless about
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it he ate up everything magic Alex was
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telling him Alex had been introduced to
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the other Beatles when he came along to
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the magic Mystery Tour sessions he soon
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got acquainted with the others and was
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invited out on the mystery tour bus he
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can even be seen featuring in their
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film while in the studio Alex had a good
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look at the equipment and decided he
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could invent something way more advanced
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he could assign machines the size of an
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oven to the size of a matchbox the for
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all bought into it throughout the whole
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of the White Album sessions the four
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would be second guessing their Engineers
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they would state
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Alex says it doesn't have to be done
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this way you can do it this way the
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engineers became very skeptical of magic
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Alex's extraordinary claims especially
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one day when he was found underneath the
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mixing console in studio 2 with a
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flashlight trying to figure out how it
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worked the engineers reported Alex to
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stag but nothing happened he'd been
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given permission by The Beatles Alex had
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told the four he needed to examine all
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the equipment George Martin for one knew
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he was a fraud he knew Alex had no clue
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of how to design these ridiculous
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inventions sometimes he' take Alex to
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the side and ask how are you going to do
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that he'd never come up with a plausable
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method he'd even begin talking in broken
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English acting as if he didn't have a
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grasp of the language he'd be talking
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complete gibberish and if John was
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present he'd pretend he could understand
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him and agree as the sessions begin the
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first song they record is Revolution one
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The Beatles decide on a new method of
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working possibly in an attempt to mimic
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the relaxed atmosphere at George's
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Bungalow they will rehearse every song
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over and over with each rehearsal being
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recorded Midway through recording that
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day JN turns his amp up to a deafening
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level he was playing so loud the noise
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was being picked up by other
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microphones George Martin refused to
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confront him and sent an engineer down
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to do it when engineer Je F Emer
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approached lenon lenon explained the
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reason he had his amp so high is because
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he was trying to distort the sh out of
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his guitar he explained he'd turn his
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guitar down but they'd have to create a
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distortion effect on his guitar when
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mixing as Emme walked away Jon snapped
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at him to get his act together in the
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control room they created an effect they
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used previously with Jon's voice on I am
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the warus instead of it being on his
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voice they just used it on his
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guitar they got the desired sound but
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John was angered that it took them so
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long as the session went on Jon's anger
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grew worse and worse by the end he was
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going berserk some of the engineers had
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never seen him like this and most likely
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it was down to the side effects of the
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drugs he was
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taking John pushed the ban through take
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after take until his voice was gone then
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he declared okay I've had enough after
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that they all climb the stairs and
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listen to what they had in the control
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room the next day sessions began with
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the free Beatles minus John waiting in
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studio 2 and the two Engineers with
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George Martin talking quietly in the
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control room arriving late John burst
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through the control room door behind him
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followed a small Japanese woman carrying
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a camera she would by the way never take
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any photos of this day she stayed in the
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control room while John headed down to
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into Studio 2 all of a sudden John burst
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back in and stated this is Yoko then
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exited again Yoko sat in the control
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room for hours everyone in there felt
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uncomfortable she sat right in front of
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the window so the engineers and George
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Martin had to lean over to see the
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Beatles though to be honest Studio 2 was
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so dimly lit George and the engineers
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could barely see them anyway eventually
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JN came up to the control room and took
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her down to Studio 2 when she' left the
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room George Martin stated what on Earth
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is John
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thinking down in studio 2 the other
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Beatles ignored her she sat next to John
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and from that point on they were as
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George Harrison said never to be seen
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apart
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again Yoko was at John's side everywhere
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she even came to the toilet with him
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waiting outside and sitting on the floor
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though they were together constantly
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strangely they barely spoke a word to
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each
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other a few days later while they were
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listening back to a song in the control
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room John asked Yoko what she thought
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she told him it was pretty good but
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should be played faster there was
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complete silence everyone even JN looked
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shocked they completely ignored her and
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carried on Talking Paul would have
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especially been annoyed according to the
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engineers he never handled criticism
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well from anyone except John and
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possibly George as the sessions went on
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John's Behavior became more bizarre he
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asked an engineer to record his vocals
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with him lying flat on the floor he also
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hated singing into the microphones and
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asked why the microphone had to be in
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front of him rather than behind him
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behind their back the engineers talked
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about how drugged out the Beatles had
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become by June 5th they' finished
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recordings on Revolution
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one they then started on Ringo's song
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Don't Pass Me By he'd actually written
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the song himself as opposed to being
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given one John and Paul had written that
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day DJ Kenny Everett came to the studio
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and did an interview with them during
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the
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recording June 11th Paul records
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Blackbird alone on his acoustic guitar
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while George and Ringo are over in the
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states and John is in another Studio
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working on Revolution 9 video was used
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of poor for an apple promo at the time
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Paul had brought a girl into the studio
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perhaps as a rort to John bringing in
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Yoko Paul requested Blackbird sound like
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he was singing It Outdoors so they
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decided just to go outdoors and record
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him a few of the birds that can be heard
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on the record were actual birds outside
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but mainly they were overdubbed later
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during the sessions on June 20th neither
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Paul or Ringo were present John books
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out Studios 1 2 and three Abby Road and
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in doing so finishes off Revolution 9
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the track was a half Yoko half lenen
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production John is over the moon with
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the song he feels this is how the
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Beatles should now sound going forward
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when Paul arrives back John plays him
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Revolution 9 he barely has any reaction
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to the song he just mutters not bad
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basically he was saying he didn't like
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it without saying he didn't like it
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lenon knew this and snap
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not bad you have no idea what you're
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talking about this should be our next
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bloody single this is the direction The
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Beatles should be going in from now on
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Yoko added I agree I think it's great
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she now feeling like a part of the band
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Paul and John would later get into an
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argument about whether Revolution 9
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should even be on the album the next
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session on June 27th they begin work on
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another John song Everybody's Got
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Something to except for me and my monkey
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John and George had the guitars blasting
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so loud it drowned out Paul's Bas
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completely after trying to compete with
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them Paul dropped his base and began
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ringing a fireman's Bell he wasn't miked
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but the noise bled through to JN and
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George's mics Paul later overdubbed his
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base onto the
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track for the next session John bought a
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soft ballad he'd written called good
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night
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for the song he wanted Ringo to sing
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lead vocal the finished product sounds
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like something off my fair lady
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personally I'd like to have heard John
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singing it John had in fact written it
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as a lullaby for his son Julian no
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Beatles instrumentation is featured on
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good night by the 3rd of July they begin
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recording Paul song oad oblad John hated
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it from the get-go he called it more of
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Paul's granny music they worked on the
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song with Paul struggling for a reggae
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sound John half the time enthusiastic
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and half the time
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disinterested after working continuously
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on the song for 5 days Paul decided he
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was going to scrap everything and start
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from fresh John went berserk and stormed
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out of the studio he reappeared in the
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studio hours later heavily intoxicated
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and declared this is how the fuing song
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should go before hammering out the intro
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on the piano the next day still not
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happy Paul decides to rewrite the
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Rewritten version he soon gives up
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deciding the song Can't Be bettered side
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note engineer Jeff Emer records
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sometimes they would bring in songs
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rehearse them endlessly sometimes they
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would get better and sometimes they
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would get worse he remembered how
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frustrating it was to listen to them get
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more intoxicated and hear their songs go
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downhill The Beatles also put screens up
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creating private areas of Studio 2 in
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which the studio Engineers couldn't see
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what they were doing they would smoke
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marijuana behind the screens and light J
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sticks in an attempt to hide the smell
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obviously it didn't work and every
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engineer knew exactly what they were
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doing it is worth noting at this point
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in their career the group were
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directionless Paul who'd stepped forward
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to lead the group during pepper and the
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Magical Mystery Tour was now doing his
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own thing
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John would have loved to have led the
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group but he was too impatient and
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unfocused at this point the structure
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they'd always followed began to break
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down an example of this is they demanded
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to hear the play back down in studio 2
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because they couldn't be bothered to
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walk up the 20 stairs to the control
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room they also grew resentful of the
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engineers who worked endlessly and had
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to put up with a terrible atmosphere
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nobody at this point wanted the job of
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the Beatles sound engineer
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this point Yoko and John were eating a
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macrobiotic diet and the smell of
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George's Indian cers filled Studio 2 you
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may have noticed a pattern forming with
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John's playing for every song he had his
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amped settings on full blast he was at
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this point very agitated and it all came
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out through his guitar every session he
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wanted his guitar louder and louder for
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the engineers it was a nightmare there
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is a limitation as to how loud you can
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go before the guitar sounds a mess this
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frustrated JN maybe because magic Alex
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was in his ear telling him it was all
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nonsense and in the new Apple Studio
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he'd be able to play as loud as he
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wanted one day lenon demanded a dirtier
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sound on his guitar and engineer Jeff
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Emer began messing around with the
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controls on the console literally
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risking blowing up the board to appease
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Jon in fact Jon was trying to achieve a
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raw sound in response to Pepper which
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had a polished sound John hated pepper
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at the time he called it the biggest
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load of we've ever done though this
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could have been a passive aggressive
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shot at Paul John was forever in
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competition with Paul over the weekend
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John and Paul take home mixed copies of
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O Oar and Revolution to listen to
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neither one are happy and they return
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Monday to remix and change lead vocals
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by this point the tension in the studio
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had become unbearable while Paul's
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adding a new vocal to oblad oblad George
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Martin asked him to change the phrasing
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on the last verse Paul snapped if you
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think you can do it better why don't you
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come down here and sing it yourself
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George Martin was enraged he shouted
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back then bloody sing it I give up I
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just don't know any better how to help
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you it was the first time George Martin
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had raised his voice in a recording
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session Paul calmed down after a while
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and they started work on John's song Cry
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Baby Cry the next time the 16th of July
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they continued work on John song they
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were now arguing amongst themselves and
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with the worsening atmosphere in the
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studio their longtime engineer Jeff Emer
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reached his breaking point and quit
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Midway through the song lenon attempted
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to stop him leaving to no
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avail 19th of July recording for sexy
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sad begins through 21 takes they triy to
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figure out an arrangement listening back
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afterwards John is displeased and
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nothing is used at this time the rock
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group family released their album music
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in a doll's house this forces the
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Beatles to scrap their title at doll's
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house they go through with Plan B which
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was to Simply title the album The
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Beatles following this recordings for
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everybody's got something to hide except
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for me and my monkey complete with the
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song John tells the engineers he wants
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his voice to sound like somebody from
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the moon July 24th work continues on
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sexy s spite 23 takes JN is still not
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happy the song is put aside for
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later by this point George had patiently
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been waiting to record his
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songs they begin recording his first of
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five While My Guitar Gently Weeps the
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first take was the well-known acoustic
00:20:55
version before more instruments would be
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added later on when the session is over
00:21:00
George takes the tapes to listen to them
00:21:02
at home over the weekend Paul works on
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his latest song and their next single
00:21:08
Hey Jude John is currently living at
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Paul St John's Wood home with Yoko on
00:21:15
Monday they begin work on HUD that lasts
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4 days Paul and George argue on the
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arrangements with George wanting to add
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a guitar after each
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verse August 7th work begins on George's
00:21:29
second song Not Guilty George decides to
00:21:33
record his guitar in the control room
00:21:35
with the speakers blasting because he
00:21:37
wants it to feel like he's performing
00:21:39
live the sessions go on for days with
00:21:43
over a 100
00:21:44
takes at the end George is not pleased
00:21:48
and the song is scrapped George would
00:21:50
later use this song on one of his solo
00:21:54
albums following this John continues
00:21:56
remakes of sexy sad attempting to get a
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sound he's happy with sessions also
00:22:02
continue with yeah blues and a John and
00:22:05
Yoko composition what's the new Mary
00:22:08
Jane next day Paul's song Rocky Raccoon
00:22:11
is recorded it was difficult for Paul
00:22:14
because the whole thing had to be done
00:22:15
in one take with the quirkiness of the
00:22:18
vocals not being possible to edit with
00:22:20
multiple takes the song is completed in
00:22:24
1 8 Hour
00:22:25
session August 16th the arrang ment is
00:22:29
changed on While My Guitar Gently Weeps
00:22:32
more instruments are added and more
00:22:34
vocal effects a day later George decides
00:22:37
to travel to Greece this day Paul
00:22:40
completes his acoustic song Mother
00:22:43
Nature's Son by this point the Beatles
00:22:46
were arguing so much they'd send the
00:22:48
engineers out the studio saying either
00:22:51
go for a drink or go for a meal so they
00:22:54
didn't have spectators watching Ringo
00:22:57
was particularly annoying
00:22:59
before the sessions would begin he'd be
00:23:01
waiting for everyone to arrive in
00:23:03
reception sometimes for hours one time
00:23:06
he got tired of waiting and went home
00:23:08
George Martin also told Engineers he was
00:23:11
having problems with Ringo Paul was
00:23:14
standing into play drums anytime he
00:23:16
wasn't there things came to a head when
00:23:19
they recorded their next song Back in
00:23:20
the USSR Paul had been criticizing
00:23:23
Ringo's drumming and that day he wasn't
00:23:26
in a good mood Ringo later stated he
00:23:29
felt he wasn't playing great and he felt
00:23:32
like an outsider so he left the
00:23:35
band while at home the group sent him
00:23:38
postcards reassuring him and begging him
00:23:41
to come back 28th of August recordings
00:23:44
for Dear Prudence begin Ringo is still
00:23:47
not back by this point so Paul plays
00:23:50
drums the other Beatles work on the
00:23:52
track for 3 days before continuing While
00:23:55
My Guitar Gently Weeps Ringo returns and
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adds maracus to the track George is
00:24:01
unhappy with the work scraps the whole
00:24:04
song and then starts again John and Paul
00:24:07
have been paying little attention while
00:24:09
recording and George is annoyed with
00:24:11
them both George at this point asks Eric
00:24:15
Clapton to play guitar on the
00:24:18
track September 4th promo videos for H
00:24:21
Jude and Revolution a shot at Twickenham
00:24:24
Studios this point George Martin goes on
00:24:27
holiday and asks another engineer Chris
00:24:29
Thomas to take over Thomas begins work
00:24:33
the day they're recording Paul's track
00:24:35
hel to Skelter when Paul arrives he sees
00:24:39
Thomas and States what are you doing
00:24:41
here Thomas replies George has suggested
00:24:45
I come and help Paul then States well if
00:24:49
you want to produce us you can produce
00:24:51
us if you don't we might just tell you
00:24:53
to off in fact Thomas didn't really
00:24:56
do much production through September the
00:24:59
Beatles will produce their own tracks
00:25:02
side note one day Paul brought his sheep
00:25:04
dog marfer into Studio 2 the engineers
00:25:07
were worried she might get a shock off
00:25:09
one of the electrical cables she never
00:25:11
did and to the sadness of the engineers
00:25:14
he never brought her back into the
00:25:15
studio
00:25:16
again next they recorded John song Glass
00:25:19
Onion he wrote it for those who
00:25:21
dissected the Beatles lyrics for hidden
00:25:23
messages they work on the song for 4
00:25:26
days John played his acoustic Gibson and
00:25:29
Ringo's new Ludwig Hollywood kit
00:25:32
arrives after that they begin recording
00:25:34
Paul's ballad I will the latter was
00:25:37
completed the next day this time the
00:25:40
classic rock and roll film The Girl
00:25:42
Can't Help It is having its first
00:25:44
British TV transmission on BBC 2
00:25:48
producer Chris Thomas suggests they
00:25:51
start the session early as the film
00:25:53
starts at around 9900 p.m. Paul rushes
00:25:56
so quickly he has written the whole of
00:25:59
the song Birthday by the time the others
00:26:01
arrive in the studio the song is
00:26:04
recorded by
00:26:05
8:30 they walk over to Paul St John's
00:26:08
Wood home which is just a short walk
00:26:11
away and come back after to finish off
00:26:13
the song the next day they begin work on
00:26:17
George's third song Piggies a Harps
00:26:20
Accord have been left in Studio 1 set up
00:26:22
for a classical recording George liked
00:26:25
the idea of using it for the song so
00:26:27
they moved their equipment over from
00:26:29
Studio 2 while they're working on
00:26:31
Piggies George begins playing an early
00:26:34
version of Something Thomas States
00:26:37
that's great why don't we do that one
00:26:39
instead but George isn't interested so
00:26:42
they carry on with Piggies side note
00:26:45
another engineer recalls Paul playing
00:26:47
and recording an early demo of the long
00:26:49
and winding road at this
00:26:52
time September 23rd recording begins on
00:26:55
John song Happiness is a Warm Gun it was
00:26:59
in fact three separate songs woven
00:27:02
together Paul later stated it's very
00:27:05
similar to bunglow bill in that it's a
00:27:07
piss take of all the people who really
00:27:09
do think Happiness is a Warm Gun there's
00:27:12
a great vocal on it good lyrics and it's
00:27:15
a very interesting song because it
00:27:17
changes Tempo a lot it's quite a complex
00:27:20
piece it's very
00:27:22
Lenin the next day work continued on the
00:27:25
song with JN using a picking technique
00:27:27
that he learned Le from
00:27:29
Donovan his fingers began to blister and
00:27:32
he told the others when his hands start
00:27:34
to burn he won't be able to play anymore
00:27:38
following this it's decided the group
00:27:39
need a change of scenery they moved to
00:27:42
Trident Studios and begin
00:27:44
recording while in the studio John plays
00:27:47
a jazz solo for the song George later
00:27:51
complimented him stating it was
00:27:56
brilliant next day on the third of
00:27:58
October they begin recording George's
00:28:00
fourth song Savo truffle he'd taken the
00:28:04
title from a chocolate box he later said
00:28:07
it was about Eric Clapton's chocolate
00:28:09
addiction the next day Paul began
00:28:11
recording his oneman composition maam
00:28:14
idea contrary to popular belief it's not
00:28:17
actually about his sheep dog Paul worked
00:28:19
on the song for days and George began
00:28:21
his Fifth and final song long long long
00:28:26
George was in a good mood by this point
00:28:28
but the engineers hated the smell of his
00:28:30
J
00:28:31
sticks in the studio he'd burn several
00:28:34
at once and engineer later stated he'd
00:28:38
never smell J sticks quite like the ones
00:28:40
George burned George had stated there
00:28:44
from rishikes espcially brought in one
00:28:47
of the engineers Alan Brown took a
00:28:49
jostick home after a session and kept it
00:28:51
for decades in its original rapping at
00:28:54
the same time John began recording I'm
00:28:57
so tired and Paul finished off the
00:28:59
Continuing Story of bungalow Bill
00:29:03
following this they finished off yeah
00:29:04
blues and why don't we do it in the road
00:29:07
October 13th the final song for The
00:29:10
White Album John Lennon's Julia is
00:29:13
recorded Julia is a song that includes
00:29:16
messages to both his mother and Yoko
00:29:19
intertwined when all is complete the
00:29:22
Beatles mix the album in their first and
00:29:25
only 24-hour session
00:29:28
when everything is complete George
00:29:30
Martin still isn't too happy with what
00:29:32
they have some of the songs he feels
00:29:35
weren't worthy and he never liked the
00:29:37
idea of a double album when the group
00:29:40
had returned from India they had had 32
00:29:43
songs and insisted they all be recorded
00:29:46
they ignored George's idea of
00:29:49
concentrating on 16 of the best George
00:29:52
Martin also suspected they were
00:29:54
attempting to end their contract with
00:29:56
Emi which required ired a certain amount
00:29:59
of songs this was a contract they had
00:30:01
signed while Brian Epstein was
00:30:04
alive the album divided fans who waited
00:30:07
anxiously to see The Beatles new sleeve
00:30:10
with a vision of Sergeant Pepper they
00:30:12
were met with a blank white cover with a
00:30:14
serial number and the Beatles name
00:30:16
embedded it was in fact a deliberate
00:30:19
contrast to Pepper it was also a nod to
00:30:22
the raw production contrast to their
00:30:24
previous efforts inside the sleeve
00:30:26
featured a photo collage of each four
00:30:29
Beatles with separate posters and one
00:30:31
large poster
00:30:33
collage when all was said and done John
00:30:36
blamed the bad atmosphere on ABY Road
00:30:38
Studios stating it's just working in
00:30:42
this sh hole of a place indeed ABY Road
00:30:45
had become a fishball for the group by
00:30:47
this point they couldn't step outside
00:30:49
with journalists waiting with cameras
00:30:52
and they were mobbed in the canteen if
00:30:54
they were prisoners of their own Fame
00:30:56
then Abby Road was their prison they
00:30:59
were now sure their next Studio being
00:31:02
designed by Magic Alex mardas would be
00:31:05
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00:31:07
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00:31:11
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