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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Hey Jude LP.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
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The “Hey Jude” album was released in February 1970, in the US only. Allen Klein had negotiated a more lucrative contract for the Beatles with Capitol Records in 1969 which required one compilation album per year. He directed Allan Steckler of ABKCO/Apple to work on one. Steckler chose songs that had not appeared on any Capitol album in the United States and that spanned the group’s career. He also put more focus on recent singles than on earlier material.
In preparation for this release, some songs, which had previously only been mixed in mono, had to be mixed in stereo.
On this day, between 2:30 and 5:30 pm, “Lady Madonna” and “Rain” were then mixed in stereo (“Lady Madonna” had been mixed in mono on February 15, 1968; “Rain” on April 16, 1966). More stereo mixes for the “Hey Jude” compilation would be made on December 5, 1969.
During this session, time was also spent working on stereo mixes for “Octopus’s Garden“. Ringo Starr was to appear in a musical sequence for a television special about George Martin, and those mixes were prepared for that purpose.
Last updated on November 22, 2021
Songs recorded
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Mixing • Stereo mixing - Remix 1 from take 5
Album Officially released on Hey Jude
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Staff
Production staff
- George Martin:
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick:
- Engineer
- Phil McDonald:
- Engineer
- Richard Lush:
- Second engineer
Going further
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions • Mark Lewisohn
The definitive guide for every Beatles recording sessions from 1962 to 1970.
We owe a lot to Mark Lewisohn for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details - the number of takes for each song, who contributed what, a description of the context and how each session went, various photographies... And an introductory interview with Paul McCartney!
If we like to think, in all modesty, that the Paul McCartney Project is the best online ressource for everything Paul McCartney, The Beatles Bible is for sure the definitive online site focused on the Beatles. There are obviously some overlap in terms of content between the two sites, but also some major differences in terms of approach.
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