Fact #150105
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The Beatles start work on what will become the title track to the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe.Full article:
Ringo Starr : The original concept of Sgt. Pepper was that it was going to be stage show - you know, we start with clapping and people shouting and then I come on - and we were going to do it like theater; we'd do it in the studio and simulate it. We didn't in the end. We did it for the first couple of tracks and then it faded into an album - but it still made it a whole concept.
Paul McCartney : We were getting a little bit fed up of being The Beatles, because everything we did had to be The Beatles, and I felt we were getting trapped in this whole idea of 'What kind of songs does John do? What does George do? Paul does the ballads.' It was all getting so bloody predictable.
I said, why don't we pretend that we're another band? Make up a name for it and make up an identity, make up alter egos, just pretend, so we can make a whole album from the point of view of this other band.
So you could get away from all of those constrictions the record company makes.
Geoff Emerick (Abbey Road engineer) : I had used everything at my disposal on Revolver. On Pepper, it was like starting over from scratch, getting down to the individual tonalities of the instruments and changing them. They didn’t want a guitar to sound like a guitar anymore. They didn’t want anything to sound like what it was.
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Paul McCartney : We were getting a little bit fed up of being The Beatles, because everything we did had to be The Beatles, and I felt we were getting trapped in this whole idea of 'What kind of songs does John do? What does George do? Paul does the ballads.' It was all getting so bloody predictable.
I said, why don't we pretend that we're another band? Make up a name for it and make up an identity, make up alter egos, just pretend, so we can make a whole album from the point of view of this other band.
So you could get away from all of those constrictions the record company makes.
Geoff Emerick (Abbey Road engineer) : I had used everything at my disposal on Revolver. On Pepper, it was like starting over from scratch, getting down to the individual tonalities of the instruments and changing them. They didn’t want a guitar to sound like a guitar anymore. They didn’t want anything to sound like what it was.
(Source : not known)