- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane 7" Single.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
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The Beatles had so far spent six sessions recording Paul McCartney’s “Penny Lane”, on December 29 and December 30, 1966, and on January 4, January 5, January 6 and January 9, 1967. On this day, from 7 pm to 1:40 am, additional overdubs were added to Take 9. However, the session wasn’t very productive.
Paul, John Lennon and George Harrison added backing vocals to the instrumental section that would later feature a piccolo trumpet solo. Ringo Starr played tubular bells during Paul’s singing of “the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain…“, and Paul also played chimes. All these parts were added to track two of the four-track tape.
Work on “Penny Lane” would continue on January 12, 1967.
Last updated on February 6, 2023
Staff
Musicians on "Penny Lane"
- Paul McCartney:
- Backing vocals, Chimes
- Ringo Starr:
- Tubular bells
- John Lennon:
- Backing vocals
- George Harrison:
- Backing vocals
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.
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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