Fact #67215
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The Beatles are in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe, recording I Want To Hold Your Hand and This Boy. They also record their first Christmas disc for distribution to their fan club members.
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John Lennon : We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in I Want To Hold Your Hand, I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher 's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses.
Paul McCartney : We found this old piano and started banging away. There was a little old organ too. So we were having this informal jam and we started banging away. Suddenly a little bit came to us, the catch line. So we started working on it from there. We got our pens and paper out and just wrote down the lyrics. Eventually, we had some sort of a song, so we played it for our recording manager and he seemed to like it. We recorded it the next day."
Tony Barrow (Beatles publicist) : The membership of The Beatles Fan Club had increased enormously and a whole staff had been taken on … I saw a chance to do a good PR ploy and do something a bit special for Christmas that had never been done before. I hit on this idea of a flexi-disc. Reader's Digest and many others used it on a huge level. But at the time it was fairly unique.
The Beatles asked me to write a script for them during the first year or two. They were far better ad-libbing, so they sent it up, using bits of script purely as Goon-style humour. Basically, the digressions from the script were far funnier than sticking to it.
For the first Christmas recording I sat down with a guy named Paul Linton, the boss of Linton records, who turned out the discs for us. Paul and I went through a 30 or 40-minute tape of Beatle chatter with a pair of scissors and snipped out great chunks. We pruned it down to six or seven minutes. One reason for editing it was to get rid of quite a number of sick jokes and a number of expletives.
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Paul McCartney : We found this old piano and started banging away. There was a little old organ too. So we were having this informal jam and we started banging away. Suddenly a little bit came to us, the catch line. So we started working on it from there. We got our pens and paper out and just wrote down the lyrics. Eventually, we had some sort of a song, so we played it for our recording manager and he seemed to like it. We recorded it the next day."
Tony Barrow (Beatles publicist) : The membership of The Beatles Fan Club had increased enormously and a whole staff had been taken on … I saw a chance to do a good PR ploy and do something a bit special for Christmas that had never been done before. I hit on this idea of a flexi-disc. Reader's Digest and many others used it on a huge level. But at the time it was fairly unique.
The Beatles asked me to write a script for them during the first year or two. They were far better ad-libbing, so they sent it up, using bits of script purely as Goon-style humour. Basically, the digressions from the script were far funnier than sticking to it.
For the first Christmas recording I sat down with a guy named Paul Linton, the boss of Linton records, who turned out the discs for us. Paul and I went through a 30 or 40-minute tape of Beatle chatter with a pair of scissors and snipped out great chunks. We pruned it down to six or seven minutes. One reason for editing it was to get rid of quite a number of sick jokes and a number of expletives.
(Source : not known)