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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
- The Beatles Discography
Standardised studio albums. Since the first release of their...
- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an...
- Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey MBE (born 7 July 1940), known...
- George Harrison
George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)...
- The Beatles (Album)
The Beatles, also referred to colloquially as the White...
- Fifth Beatle
The fifth Beatle is an informal title that has been applied...
- Revolver
Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock...
- With The Beatles
With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English...
- Beatles for Sale
Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the English...
- Cultural Impact of The Beatles
The English rock band the Beatles, comprising John Lennon,...
- The Beatles Discography
George Harrison – lead guitar, vocals. Stuart Sutcliffe – bass. Various guest drummers. The Silver Beatles. (June 1960) [35] John Lennon – vocals, rhythm guitar. Paul McCartney – vocals, rhythm guitar. George Harrison – lead guitar, vocals. Stuart Sutcliffe – bass.
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This version includes orchestration and backing vocals overdubbed on 4 January 1970, under the supervision of Martin and McCartney, with backing vocals that included the only known contribution by Linda McCartney to a Beatles song.
Mar 8, 2020 · With only three lead vocals, McCartney gives his smallest contribution on any full-length Beatles album - even Harrison had more songs, thanks to his first-ever composition ("Don't Bother Me") and ...
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EMI
In the early part of the 1960s, EMI's Abbey Road Studios was equipped with EMI-made British Tape Recorders (BTR) which were developed in 1948, as copies of German wartime recorders. The BTR was a twin-track, valve-based machine. When recording on the twin-track machine there was very little opportunity for overdubbing; the recording was essentially that of a live musicperformance. The first two Beatles albums, Please Please Me and With The Beatles, were recorded on the BTR two-track machines;...
The Beatles
The success of the Beatles meant that EMI gave them carte blanche access to the Abbey Road studios—they were not charged for studio time and could spend as long as they wanted working on music. Starting around 1965 with the Rubber Soul sessions, the Beatles increasingly used the studio as an instrument in itself, spending long hours experimenting and writing. The Beatles demanded a lot from the studio; Lennon allegedly wanted to know why the bass on a certain Wilson Pickett record far exceede...
Session musicians
Although strings were commonly used on pop recordings, George Martin's suggestion that a string quartet be used for the recording of "Yesterday" marked a major departure for the Beatles. McCartney recalled playing it to the other Beatles and Starr saying it did not make sense to have drums on the track and Lennon and Harrison saying there was no point having extra guitars. George Martin suggested a solo acoustic guitar and a string quartet. As the Beatles' musical work developed, particularly...
Guitar feedback
Audio feedback was used by composers such as Robert Ashley in the early 60s. Ashley's The Wolfman, which uses feedback extensively, was composed early in 1964, though not heard publicly until the autumn of that year. In the same year as Ashley's feedback experiments, The Beatles song "I Feel Fine", recorded on 18 October, starts with a feedback note produced by plucking the A-note on McCartney's bass guitar, which was picked up on Lennon's semi-acoustic guitar. It was distinguished from its p...
Close miking of acoustic instruments
During the recording of "Eleanor Rigby" on 28 April 1966, McCartney said he wanted to avoid "Mancini" strings. To fulfil this brief, Geoff Emerick close-miked the strings—the microphones were almost touching the strings. George Martin had to instruct the players not to back away from the microphones. Microphones began to be placed closer to the instruments in order to produce a fuller sound. Ringo's drums had a large sweater stuffed in the bass drum to 'deaden' the sound while the bass drum m...
Direct input
Direct input was first used by the Beatles on 1 February 1967 to record McCartney's bass on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". With direct input the guitar pick-up is connected to the recording console via an impedance matching DI box. Ken Townsend claimed this as the first use anywhere in the world, although Joe Meek, an independent producer from London, is known to have done it earlier (early 1960s)[page needed]and in America, Motown's engineers had been using Direct Input since the e...
The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool who recorded hundreds of songs during their career. The group's "main catalogue"—songs released between 1962 and 1970—consists of 213 songs (four of which exist in different versions): 188 originals and 25 covers.
List of musicians performing lead vocals on Beatles' songs. Contents. 1John Lennon (110) 2Paul McCartney (106) 3George Harrison (38) 4Ringo Starr (13) 5Tony Sheridan (10) John Lennon (110) Across the Universe. Ain't She Sweet. All I've Got to Do. All You Need Is Love. And Your Bird Can Sing. Anna (Go to Him) Any Time at All. Ask Me Why.
