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Recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Nov 24, 1966 - Apr 20, 1967 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (UK Mono)
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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (UK Mono) LP.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
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About
On February 9, 1967, all the studios at EMI Studios in Abbey Road were booked, so The Beatles went to Regent Sound Studio to start recording Paul McCartney’s “Fixing A Hole.” They recorded the basic tracks and some overdubs; the resulting work was labelled Take 2.
On this day, February 21, from 7 pm to 12:45 am, they continued working on the track and completed it. They attempted a remake of the song at the start of the session, but after only one take, labelled Take 1 despite Take 1 already existing from the Regent Sound session, they decided to stick to the results of the earlier session.
As the four-track tape from Regent Sound was full, they first freed up track two by doing a reduction mix of Take 2 and combining the double-tracked guitar by George Harrison into one track. The resulting work was labelled Take 3, even though a Take 3 already existing from the February 9 session.
Next, The Beatles recorded another rhythm track, doubling Paul McCartney’s bass, George Martin’s harpsichord, and Ringo Starr’s drums on track two.
“Fixing a Hole” was then mixed in mono from Take 3. Five attempts were made, numbered Remix Mono 2 to 6 (there was no RM1). An edit of RM3 and RM6, which can be heard at the 2:06 mark, was then done and this served as the mono release version of the song on the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
The stereo mix of “Fixing A Hole” was created on April 7, 1967.
Last updated on February 7, 2024
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Editing • Editing of mono remix 3 and mono remix 6
Album Officially released on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (UK Mono)
Staff
Musicians on "Fixing A Hole"
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!
The third book of this critically - acclaimed series, nominated for the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) award for Excellence In Historical Recorded Sound, "The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 3: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band through Magical Mystery Tour (late 1966-1967)" captures the band's most innovative era in its entirety. 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.
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