I’m with Rotherhithe H on this. Captain Scarlet for me, all day long. I even had the action-man style man-dolls of Scarlet and Blue plus some small (1/32?) scale ‘soldiers’ of the whole crew. And the Airfix angel […]

Have you seen Joker? It’s fantastic.

I highly recommend the Pet Sounds box set. You can hear all the raw instrumental tracks in all their one-take glory and the musicians discussing suggestions for arrangement changes between takes etc. Just like an […]

He’s famous for playing a regular right hand guitar turned upside down so the strings are backwards from what you normally get, ie the thick strings are normally on the top. So this comment makes sense.

Fairchilds were used from 64 on. First album was possibly even Hard Day’s Night, but certainly on Beatles for Sale. Emerick mostly used only two or three mics on the kit, virtually identical setup to Smith, for […]

Hi TL, in the article you linked to, the engineer specifically describes what I was talking about. He REHEARSED the musicians separately to craft their parts, which is totally normal, but they all PLAYED TOGETHER […]

Perfect! I’m not really a scouser, just genetically.

Great list! How about adding Let’s Get it On, Marvin Gaye. And The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by R Flack?

I’m with VV, I think it’s a dreadful song. Lazy, fourth former lyrics and cookie cutter production. In other words, totally appropriate for a latter-day Bond film.

The Radiohead one, absolutely fantastic track, criminal it wasn’t used.

You would be wrong, yes! Although the first artist it was tried out on was actually Cilla, fact fans!

What’s groundbreaking about Good Vibrations? The interesting thing is that it was made from multiple edits, so each section recorded by itself then all glued together at the end. But again, nothing that other […]

Few things to query here TL!

Firstly ADT. Yes a slightly interesting innovation which creates the effect of eg two people singing from one voice or a wobbly effect when overdone. Hardly a game changer, though. I […]

Actually, each Logic Pro song can have 1000 stereo audio tracks plus 1000 software instrument midi tracks. That’s a mere 1,996 more than The Beatles had for Sgt Pepper.

Just a few technical corrections for those of you shaking your heads and tut-tutting about some of the info discussed herein. The first two Beatles albums were indeed recorded on 2 track machines, often […]