Posts Tagged with ‘Octopus’s Garden’
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December 8, 1969
08 Dec 2019Today Ringo went into EMI Studios to re-record “Octopus’s Garden” for the upcoming George Martin TV special. Martin had prepared…
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Bonus Track: It’s a Ringalong-Singalong
21 Nov 2019As with “Oh! Darling,” everyone seems to have liked “Octopus’s Garden.” George, in particular, considered it a “cosmic song” and…
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July 18, 1969
18 Jul 2019Today was more or less a repeat of yesterday. First Paul showed up to have another go at his lead…
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July 17, 1969
17 Jul 2019Apparently Paul was obsessed, as he sometimes could be, with getting a certain sound for his lead vocal on “Oh!…
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April 29, 1969
29 Apr 2019Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions describes today’s studio work with precise brevity: The re-recording, as an overdub, of…
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April 26, 1969
26 Apr 2019This was a strange, interstitial period in Beatle history, during which they recorded sporadically with no particular goal in sight.…
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January 23–24, 1969
23 Jan 2019I now have a working theory as to why the precise details of the Get Back/Let It Be sessions remain…