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Recording the "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack
Apr 25 - May 3 and Aug 22 - Nov 17, 1967 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Magical Mystery Tour (US LP - Mono)
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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Magical Mystery Tour (US LP - Mono) LP.
- Studio:
- Chappell Recording Studios, London UK
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On August 22, 1967, The Beatles started recording “Your Mother Should Know” at Chappell Recording Studios since Abbey Road’s EMI Studios were fully booked. They reconvened at Chappell on this day, which marked their second and last session at the studio.
During this session, they continued working on the track. Firstly, they created a tape reduction mix from Take 8, named Take 9, freeing up two tracks from the four-track tape. Next, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison overdubbed backing vocals while George added some acoustic guitar.
This recording session was significant as it was the final one before the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, on August 27, 1967. Though Epstein was present during the session, his involvement was minimal.
He came in to hear the playbacks looking extremely down and in a bad mood. He just stood at the back of the room listening, not saying much.
John Timperley – Engineer at Chappell Recording Studios – From “The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions” by Mark Lewisohn, 1988
On August 24, the day after this session, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison attended a lecture by the 56-year-old guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at London’s Hilton Hotel. Following the session, The three Beatles met with the Maharishi and were invited for a week of Transcendental Meditation training starting on August 25. However, two days into the retreat, they received news of Epstein’s death.
The Beatles returned to work on “Your Mother Should Know” on September 16, 1967.
Last updated on April 14, 2024
Songs recorded
1.
Tape copying • Tape reduction take 8 into take 9
2.
Staff
Musicians on "Your Mother Should Know"
- Paul McCartney:
- Backing vocals
- John Lennon:
- Backing vocals
- George Harrison:
- Acoustic guitar, 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.
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the last session Brian Epstein attended before his death :(