Friday, August 8, 2014
Interview for BBC Radio 4
Sampledelica! The History of the Mellotron
Radio interview • Interview of Paul McCartney
Last updated on August 4, 2025
Friday, August 8, 2014
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Last updated on August 4, 2025
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From BBC Radio 4 – Sampledelica! The History of the Mellotron:
Mark Radcliffe charts the history of the unwieldy Mellotron, a bizarre, tape-driven instrument that dominated the soundscape of the late 60s and 70s and featured on records by The Beatles, The Moody Blues, King Crimson and Tangerine Dream, to name a few.
Mellotrons have got a reality about them. It doesn’t sound synthetic. It’s the kind of thing you can use as a color on a record… It’s a world of possibilities, it makes making a record more fun.
Paul McCartney
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