The Beatles and Abbey Road are inexorably linked. Not just because Abbey Road is the name of the last album the band recorded together, but also because the Fab Four recorded most of their catalog at the venerable London Studio during a period of eight years. As a result, the...
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“You have a relationship with a record,” Hepworth continues. “You’ve listened to the record innumerable times, very often more than the artist who made it. In a strange way, you know it better than the artist who made it, because it was a day’s work to them, and then they moved on to something else. Whereas you’ve internalized this thing.
Author David Hepworth has assembled a comprehensive history of the fabled Abbey Road recording studio.When the Beatles first arrived at Abbey Road in 1962, they were fortunate to work with producer George Martin, who had achieved recent success with a series of comedy recordings featuring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller. Unlike his predecessors, Martin was not afraid to use the recording studio to create aural landscapes and alternate realities.
“When they stopped performing live in ‘66, from then on, the only place the Beatles existed was Abbey Road, really,” Hepworth points out. “It was a workshop, it was a bit of a factory. It was a learning space. And if you went down to the canteen, halfway through the afternoon, you would bump into [violinist] Yehudi Menuhin and [James Bond composer] John Barry and whoever else. And that’s quite a good feeling for people to have.
In the post-Beatle era, Abbey Road continued to function as an in-demand recording studio, birthing classics by Paul Simon, David Bowie, Lady Gaga and Adele. The studio also became a favorite of movie composer John Williams, who went to Abbey Road to record the scores for theBut now it’s not like the old days, Hepworth reports, citing the changes wrought by digital recording and editing, plus the ability of artists to collaborate remotely.
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