Fact #52438
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Paul McCartney of The Beatles gives Unforgettable, a specially made Christmas Record, manufactured as a limited edition of four copies, to his girlfriend Jane Asher, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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Paul McCartney : I had two Brenell tape recorders set up at home, on which I made experimental recordings and tape loops, like the ones in Tomorrow Never Knows. And once I put together something crazy, something left-field, just for the other Beatles, a fun thing which they could play late in the evening. It was just something for the mates, basically.
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t was called Unforgettable and it started with Nat King Cole singing Unforgettable, then I came in over the top as the announcer: "Yes, unforgettable, that's what you are! And today in Unforgettable'...."
It was like a magazine programme: full of weird interviews, experimental music, tape loops, some tracks I knew the others hadn't heard, it was just a compilation of odd things. I
took the tape to Dick James' studio and they cut me three acetate discs. Unfortunately, the quality of these discs was such that they wore out as you played them. I gave them to the fellas and I guess they would have played them for a couple of weeks, but then they must have worn out. There's probably a tape somewhere, though.
(Source : interview with Mark Lewisohn, 1995)
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t was called Unforgettable and it started with Nat King Cole singing Unforgettable, then I came in over the top as the announcer: "Yes, unforgettable, that's what you are! And today in Unforgettable'...."
It was like a magazine programme: full of weird interviews, experimental music, tape loops, some tracks I knew the others hadn't heard, it was just a compilation of odd things. I
took the tape to Dick James' studio and they cut me three acetate discs. Unfortunately, the quality of these discs was such that they wore out as you played them. I gave them to the fellas and I guess they would have played them for a couple of weeks, but then they must have worn out. There's probably a tape somewhere, though.
(Source : interview with Mark Lewisohn, 1995)