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Chapter 29 - Rebooting Beatlemania in the Digital Age

from Part VI - The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2020

By
Joe Rapolla
Edited by
Kenneth Womack
Kenneth Womack
Affiliation:
Monmouth University, New Jersey
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At 2:30 pm Thursday, April 7, 1966, the Beatles, producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick (all of 20 years old) began work on a session at Studio Three of EMI Recording Studios, 3 Abbey Road, London NW8, honing the first song for the album Revolver. Why such a granular level of detail? Because: the next four-plus hours forever changed the history of recorded music. Recording studios until that point had always been used to document musical performances, and eventually performances with modest overdubbing. But this afternoon and early evening saw the four Beatles, at least as many studio personnel, and five tape machines enlisted in a heretofore unattempted feat: feeding five homemade cassette tape loops supplied by Paul McCartney into Studio Three‘s REDD.51 mixing console.

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The Beatles in Context , pp. 314 - 328
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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