Book contents
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Chapter 16 Abbey Road Studios
- Chapter 17 Producing Sound Pictures with Sir George Martin
- Chapter 18 Rock ’n’ Roll Music! The Beatles and the Rise of the Merseybeat
- Chapter 19 Positively Bob Dylan: The Beatles and the Folk Movement
- Chapter 20 “Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams”: The Beatles Writ Psychedelic
- Chapter 21 Getting Back
- Chapter 22 On the Record! (Dis)Covering the Beatles
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 20 - “Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams”: The Beatles Writ Psychedelic
from Part IV - The Beatles’ Sound
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Chapter 16 Abbey Road Studios
- Chapter 17 Producing Sound Pictures with Sir George Martin
- Chapter 18 Rock ’n’ Roll Music! The Beatles and the Rise of the Merseybeat
- Chapter 19 Positively Bob Dylan: The Beatles and the Folk Movement
- Chapter 20 “Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams”: The Beatles Writ Psychedelic
- Chapter 21 Getting Back
- Chapter 22 On the Record! (Dis)Covering the Beatles
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
October 1959: George Martin and recording engineer Stuart Eltham are at EMI Studios editing a tape of comedians Peter Sellers and Irene Handl. Removing sections of the recording, taking a sentence, a phrase, or a word at a time, producer and engineer are reshaping a mostly ad-libbed 11-minute dialogue between the two actors into a more streamlined 6½ minutes. Once they complete the editing, they will add a few sound effects to create the illusion that these two odd characters are talking in an open-air park. The completed track will be one of the highlights of Songs For Swinging Sellers, the second LP Martin has produced with the actor. The success the year before of their first album together, The Best of Sellers, vindicated Martin’s sense that there was a niche for comedy records in Britain that he could fill, and his natural inclination for experimenting in the studio drove him to apply a variety of sound effects to these recordings, conjuring vivid scenes with just a few well-placed flourishes.
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- The Beatles in Context , pp. 206 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020