Episode 150: “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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An Orgasm of Sound
The original idea seems to have been macartney's. He wanted this space filled with e conceptual piece on the lines of something the avant gard composers he'd been studying might come up with. This was to be filled by what george martin has later called an orgasm of sound. The musicians were also given false noses, guorilla hands and so on to loosen them up slightly. They only employed half an orchestra for the session, but they managed to get the sound of two full orchestras by recording them five times. Musicians union rules would have meant they got paid for every overdub, which would have been prohibitively expensive. As it was, they paid 367
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