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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Abbey Road LP.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Room 4, Abbey Road
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At this late stage (the master tape of the “Abbey Road” album had been done the previous day), it was discovered that the orchestra on “The End” was slightly out of sync with The Beatles’ performance. So on this day, from 1 pm to 2 pm, in EMI Studios Room 4, engineer Phil McDonald was tasked to do some tape copying to extract the orchestra track on another tape.
A second session was then held in the control room of Studio Two, from 2:30 pm to 12 pm.
On August 14, eleven attempts at crossfading “You Never Give Me Your Money” into “Sun King / Mean Mr. Mustard” were made, using the tape loops assembled by Paul McCartney on August 5. On this day, another attempt was made, which would be the one released on the “Abbey Road” album.
“The End” was then remixed to fix the sync issue with the orchestra. Only one remix (named remix 4) was needed. This was the one released on the “Abbey Road” album, pending a last edit done on August 25.
To correct this, track three with the strings and brass was transferred to another tape and ‘flown in’ from another machine during mixing.
From “Abbey Road” Super Deluxe edition book (2019)
Those changes were then reinserted into the master reel for the album.
Last updated on December 28, 2021
Songs recorded
2.
Mixing • Stereo crossfade remix 12, from sound effects take 5 of "You Never Give Me Your Money"
Staff
Production staff
- George Martin:
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick:
- Engineer
- Phil McDonald:
- Engineer
- Alan Parsons:
- 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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