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"The Beatles" (aka the White Album) sessions
May 30 - Oct 18, 1968 • Songs recorded during this session appear on The Beatles (Mono)
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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the The Beatles (Mono) LP.
- Studio:
- Trident Studios, London, UK
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For this new week of recording for the White Album, The Beatles were back at Trident Studios. They had spent some time there, from August 31 to August 6, to record “Hey Jude” and benefit from the eight-track recording facilities of the studios, something that was not yet available at the EMI Studios, Abbey Road. But by October, eight-track recording was available at EMI Studios. Mark Lewisohn suggests they only needed “a change of scenery“.
On this day, The Beatles started working on Paul McCartney’s “Honey Pie“. By the end of they day, the basic track was recorded with Paul McCartney on piano, George Harrison on bass, John Lennon on electric guitar and Ringo Starr on drums. It was called Take 1, even if two reels of tape were filled with rehearsals for the song.
George Martin (with assistance from engineer Barry Sheffield) then made a rough mono mix for himself, so that he could write the brass and woodwind arrangement.
Work on “Honey Pie” continued the day after.
Last updated on August 27, 2021
Staff
Musicians on "Honey Pie"
Production staff
- George Martin:
- Producer
- Barry Sheffield:
- 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!
The fourth book of this critically acclaimed series, "The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 4: The Beatles through Yellow Submarine (1968 - early 1969)" captures The Beatles as they take the lessons of Sgt. Pepper forward with an ambitious double-album that is equally innovative and progressive. From the first take to the final remix, discover the making of the greatest recordings of all time. Through extensive, fully-documented research, these books fill an important gap left by all other Beatles books published to date and provide a unique view into the recordings of the world's most successful pop music act.
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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