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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Mono) LP.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Timeline
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From RollingStone, May 26, 2017:
[…] Work began on “When I’m Sixty-Four on December 6th, 1966, at EMI’s Abbey Road studios, with the Beatles recording a basic rhythm track. Though it had been nearly half a decade since they aired the song at the Cavern, they picked it up fast. “Because the group was already so familiar with the song, the backing track was laid down in just a couple of hours,” engineer Geoff Emerick recalls in his memoir, Here There and Everywhere: Recording the Music of the Beatles. […]
Last updated on June 4, 2017
Songs recorded
1.
Christmas Messages for Radio London
Recording • Take 1
2.
Christmas Messages for Radio London
Recording • Take 2
3.
Christmas Messages for Radio Caroline
Recording • Take 1
4.
Christmas Messages for Radio Caroline
Recording • Take 2
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Staff
Production staff
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!
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