Episode 150: “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Sound of the Recordings - A Brief History
Guitar, vocals and bass to this basic track was bounced down to mono. It's all in one channel in the stereo mix of the song. Then a few days later, they thickened the sound with banjo from john, backing vocals and a piano part from george martin. This was then bounced down to a single mono track to be played back joe in the performance for the group to do live. Oin i, two days before the performance, they also recorded an orchestral overdub, a first passed through of the score that georgemartin had written. And there were more overdubs the next couple of days, as georgeMartin would
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