onothimagen
May 28, 2001, 12:02 PM
Under the Paperback Writer section of this site, I posted a link that updates Mark Lewisohn's work on his book "The Beatles Recording Sessions" to include the Anthology work.
There is ALOT of interesting things that come out of session notes to be found, including this comment about the recording at George's studio on June 23, 1994:
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Speaking in late 1996, Bob Smeaton, Anthology TV series director, was quite enthusiastic about the Friar Park recordings:
Smeaton: "The more we include of the three guys together, the more we realise that John isn't there. In years to come people might get the chance to see that footage of the three of them playing together at George's place. Knowing the way Apple works, it'll come out eventually, in some shape or form. There's a whole load of that stuff, we were there for a full day and the Beatles started playing songs like 'Thinking Of Linking' and 'Ain't She Sweet'. A little bit of this film was used when George sang 'Derradune'. They did a whole load of rock'n'roll songs. And we shot a load of stuff at Abbey Road, with the three guys and George Martin, which was fantastic. For the Beatles fan, it's priceless, I'm sure that somewhere down the line, that stuff will come out."
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You'll also find information on the rumored THIRD new song and even a FOURTH or FIFTH!
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In a New York Times interview, Paul claimed that the group didn't begin to record the fourth song given to them by Yoko, Grow Old With Me because John's original demo required too much work (although the group apparently 'experimented' on at least three tracks, including Grow Old With Me, at the start of the February 1994 Free As A Bird sessions). Furthermore, Paul confirmed, the Beatles had abandoned work on its replacement, Now And Then.
Paul: We did Free As A Bird and Real Love those two songs of John's, and that was very exciting, very moving for me and very comfortable having his voice in my headphones in the studio again. And the idea arose that there was a third track, another song we kind of had our eyes on called Now And Then.
Ringo: Such a blabbermouth that Paul McCartney! We did three tracks but we only finished two.
Then in March 1996 Beatles Monthly suddenly reported that recording of the third new Beatles song, All For Love was now complete. There was still little inkling as to the nature of this track, although it was understood that the song wasn't one of the John Lennon demo tapes handed to Paul by Yoko, but was in fact a brand new song written by George and Paul (only their second ever collaboration, after 1958s In Spite Of All The Danger).
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Better read up and check it out!
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[This Message Has Been Edited By onothimagen On May 28, 2001 01:06 PM]
There is ALOT of interesting things that come out of session notes to be found, including this comment about the recording at George's studio on June 23, 1994:
****
Speaking in late 1996, Bob Smeaton, Anthology TV series director, was quite enthusiastic about the Friar Park recordings:
Smeaton: "The more we include of the three guys together, the more we realise that John isn't there. In years to come people might get the chance to see that footage of the three of them playing together at George's place. Knowing the way Apple works, it'll come out eventually, in some shape or form. There's a whole load of that stuff, we were there for a full day and the Beatles started playing songs like 'Thinking Of Linking' and 'Ain't She Sweet'. A little bit of this film was used when George sang 'Derradune'. They did a whole load of rock'n'roll songs. And we shot a load of stuff at Abbey Road, with the three guys and George Martin, which was fantastic. For the Beatles fan, it's priceless, I'm sure that somewhere down the line, that stuff will come out."
***
You'll also find information on the rumored THIRD new song and even a FOURTH or FIFTH!
***
In a New York Times interview, Paul claimed that the group didn't begin to record the fourth song given to them by Yoko, Grow Old With Me because John's original demo required too much work (although the group apparently 'experimented' on at least three tracks, including Grow Old With Me, at the start of the February 1994 Free As A Bird sessions). Furthermore, Paul confirmed, the Beatles had abandoned work on its replacement, Now And Then.
Paul: We did Free As A Bird and Real Love those two songs of John's, and that was very exciting, very moving for me and very comfortable having his voice in my headphones in the studio again. And the idea arose that there was a third track, another song we kind of had our eyes on called Now And Then.
Ringo: Such a blabbermouth that Paul McCartney! We did three tracks but we only finished two.
Then in March 1996 Beatles Monthly suddenly reported that recording of the third new Beatles song, All For Love was now complete. There was still little inkling as to the nature of this track, although it was understood that the song wasn't one of the John Lennon demo tapes handed to Paul by Yoko, but was in fact a brand new song written by George and Paul (only their second ever collaboration, after 1958s In Spite Of All The Danger).
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Better read up and check it out!
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[This Message Has Been Edited By onothimagen On May 28, 2001 01:06 PM]