Beatles history - 1969 August
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Friday |
Studio 2. 2.30-10.30pm. Recording: `Because' (takes 1-23, overdub onto take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. First of three 3-part vocal recordings. |
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Saturday |
Badfinger records in one day `Come And Get It', at Abbey Road Studios. Paul produces the session. | |
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Saturday |
`Give Peace A Chance' number 2, 4th week in the Top 28 (Billboard). | |
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Monday |
Studio 2. 2.30-9.00pm. Recording: `Because' (overdub onto take 16). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. Studio 3. 7.15-8.45pm. Stereo mixing: `Something' (unnumbered rough remix, from take 39); `Here Comes The Sun' (unnumbered rough remix, from take 15). Producer: George Harrison; Engineer: Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. 2nd and 3rd set of 3-part vocal recordings for `Because'. Remix of `Something' for Martin, for scoring purposes. | |
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Tuesday |
Studio 3 (control room only) . 2.30-6.30pm. Recording: `You Never Give Me Your Money' (sound effects takes 1-5). Abbey Road, Room 43 and Studio 2. 6.30-10.45pm. Recording: `Because' (overdub onto take 16) ; `Ending' (working title of `The End') (overdub onto take 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. Paul brings home-made tape loops, to use in the crossfade at the end of `You Never Give Me Your Money'. First Beatle use of a synthesizer (`Because'). Studio 3 (control room). 8.00-9.30pm. Tony Clark, balance engineer, and Alan Parsons, 2nd engineer, make a copy from an ordinary cassette of some recent private recordings of John and Yoko. It's taken away by Anthony Fawcett, assistent of the Lennons. | |
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Wednesday |
Studio 3. 2.30-11.00pm. Recording: `Here Comes The Sun' (overdub onto take 15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. Abbey Road, Room 43 and Studio 2 (control room). 2.30-11.00pm. Recording: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (tape reduction take 21 into takes 22-27, with simultaneous overdub). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Tony Clark; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. Studio 2 (control room only). 11.00pm-1.00am. Stereo mixing: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (remixes 14-26, from take 27). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Tony Clark/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. Recording of synthesizer for `Maxwell's Silver Hammer'. | |
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Thursday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-6.00pm. Stereo mixing: `Come Together' (remixes 1-10, from take 9). Studio 3. 6.00-12.00pm. Recording: `Ending' (working title of `The End') (overdub onto take 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. | |
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Friday |
11.35am. Appointment with photographer Iain MacMillan at EMI Studios, for the photographic session for the `Abbey Road' cover. After this, Paul chooses out of the 6 pictures taken the best one for the LP. Before the recording session, Paul takes John home, at Cavendish Avenue, George and Mal go to the London Zoo at Regent's Park, and Ringo goes shopping.
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Friday |
Studio 2. 2.30-9.00pm. Recording: `Ending' (working title of `The End') (overdub onto take 7); `I Want You' (later known as `I Want You (She's So Heavy)') (overdub onto unnumbered Trident master). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. Studio 3. 5.30-9.45pm. Recording: `Oh! Darling' (overdub onto take 26). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Tony Clark; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. Recording synthesizer for `I Want You (She's So Heavy)'. | |
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Saturday |
`Give Peace A Chance', 5th week in the Top 28 (Billboard). | |
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Monday |
Studio 3 (control room only). 1.00-2.00pm. Mono tape copying: `Dig It' (of 13 March stereo mix); `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (of remix stereo 18). Producer: not assigned; Engineer and 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald. Studio 2. 2.30-11.30pm. Recording: `I Want You (She's So Heavy)' (overdub onto take 1); `Oh! Darling' (overdub onto take 26); `Here Comes The Sun' (overdub onto take 15). Tape copying: `I Want You (She's So Heavy)' (of take 1). Editing: `I Want You (She's So Heavy)' (from take 1 into unnumbered Trident master). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. Mal Evans takes the copies of `Dig It' and `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' to Malcolm Davies, at Apple, for acetate cutting purposes. Re-recording of `She's So Heavy' vocal harmonies. The song gets its complete title. | |
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Monday |
John and Yoko move to `Tittenhurst'. | |
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Tuesday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 7.00pm-2.00am. Stereo mixing: `Oh! Darling' (remixes 5-9, from take 26); `Because' (remixes 1, 2, from take 16); `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (remixes 27-36, from take 27). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: John Kurlander. | |
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Wednesday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-9.15pm. Stereo mixing: `You Never Give Me Your Money' (remixes 20-27, from take 30). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. | |
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Thursday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30pm-2.30am. Stereo mixing: `Sun King'/`Mean Mr Mustard' (remixes 20-24, from take 35); `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (edit piece remix 37, from take 27); `Polythene Pam'/`She Came In Through The Bathroom Window' (remixes 20-32, from take 40); `You Never Give Me Your Money' into `Sun King'/`Mean Mr Mustard' (stereo crossfade remixes 1-11, from sound effects take 5 of `You Never Give Me Your Money'). Mono recording: John Lennon interviewed by Kenny Everett. (The only interview documented on a recording sheet, because studio equipment and tape was used. Everett took away the only copy.) Editing: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (of stereo remixes 34, 37); `Sun King'/`Mean Mr Mustard' (of remix stereo 22) joined to `Polythene Pam'/`She Came In Through The Bathroom Window' (of remix stereo 32). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. | |
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Friday |
Studio 1 into Studio 2 (control room). 2.30-5.30pm. Recording: `Golden Slumbers'/`Carry That Weight' (overdub onto take 17); `Ending' (working title of `The End') (overdub onto take 7). Studio 1 into Studio 2. 7.00pm-1.15am. Recording: `Something' (overdub onto take 39); `Here Comes The Sun' (overdub onto take 15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. Recording of all orchestral overdubs for `Abbey Road'. For the first time in a Beatles session a closed circuit of television is used to communicate two studios. George re-records, on the floor of Studio 2, his guitar solo for `Something'. | |
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Saturday |
`Give Peace A Chance', 6th week in the Top 28 (Billboard). | |
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Monday |
Studio 2. 2.30-10.30pm. Stereo mixing: `Golden Slumbers'/`Carry That Weight' (remixes 1, 2, from take 17). Recording: `Ending' (working title of `The End') (overdub onto take 7). Stereo mixing: `Ending' (working title of `The End') (remixes 1-6, from take 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. Recording of 4 seconds of piano for `The End'. | |
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Tuesday |
Studio 2. 2.00pm-4.00am. Stereo mixing: `Ending' (working title of `The End') (remixes 1-3, from take 7); `Golden Slumbers'/`Carry That Weight' and `Ending' (working title of `The End') (crossfade/edit for master); `Something' (remixes 1-10, from take 39). Recording: `Here Comes The Sun' (overdub onto take 15). Stereo mixing: `Here Comes The Sun' (remix 1, from take 15). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. The instrumental jam in the coda of `Something' disappears at last in today's remixes. Recording of synthesizer for `Here Comes The Sun'. | |
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Wednesday |
Studio 3 (control room only). 2.30-6.00pm. Stereo mixing: `I Want You (She's So Heavy)' (remixes 1-8, from take 1, remixes 9, 10, from unnumbered Trident master). Editing: `I Want You (She's So Heavy)' (of stereo remixes 8, 10). Studio 2 (control room only). 6.00pm-1.15am. Master tape banding and tape copying: `Abbey Road' LP. Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. Last reunion of all 4 Beatles in the studio. | |
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Thursday |
Abbey Road, Room 4. 1.00-2.00pm. Tape copying/Editing/reinserting: `Ending' (working title of `The End') (take 7). Producer: not assigned; Engineer: Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: not assigned. Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-12.00pm. Stereo mixing: `You Never Give Me Your Money' into `Sun King'/`Mean Mr Mustard' (stereo crossfade remix 12, from sound effects take 5 of `You Never Give Me Your Money'); `Ending' (working title of `The End') (remix 4, from take 7). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/ Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. | |
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Friday |
`Tittenhurst', Suningdale, Ascot, Berkshire. Last photographic session. Photographers: Ethan Russell, Monty Fresco and Mal Evans. Partially shot. Locations: 1) Pillars in front of the main house; 2) Main garden path; 3) Paddock of high grass; 4) John and Yoko posing with donkeys; 5) Cypress tree by the Diana statue; 6) Weeping blue Atlas cedar trees; 7) Atlas trees; 8) Lawn near main house; 9) Balcony; 10) Side doorway in the assembly hall; 11) Arched porches; 12) Walled path between cottages and main house; 13) Indoors; 14) Southern balcony of main house.
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Saturday |
`Give Peace A Chance', 7th week in the Top 28 (Billboard). | |
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Sunday |
Morning: John writes `Cold Turkey'. Afternoon: John rehearses `Cold Turkey'. Evening: John records `Cold Turkey'. | |
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Monday |
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-8.00pm. Editing: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (of master); `Ending' (working title of `The End') (of master). Recording: `Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (unnumbered sound effects takes). Tape copying: `Abbey Road' LP masters. Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; 2nd Engineer: Alan Parsons. Recording of sound effects for `Maxwell's Silver Hammer', not used. Copy of `Abbey Road' LP masters for Geoff Emerick, who will take them to Malcolm Davies, at Apple, to cut the disc. End of sessions for `Abbey Road'. | |
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Thursday |
George presents a new record by the members of the Radha Krishna Temple. | |
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Thursday |
Avenue Clinic, London. Mary McCartney is born to Paul and Linda. Paul attends the birth. | |
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Saturday |
`Give Peace A Chance', 8th week in the Top 28 (Billboard). | |
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Sunday |
George, Ringo, John, Pattie, Maureen and Yoko attend the Festival of the Isle of Wight, to see the Dylan show. |
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