In a letter dated January 10, 1966 to his son, filmmaker M. Clay Adams reveals intimate details of working with George Martin and The Beatles on the over-dubbing of the soundtrack to The Beatles at Shea Stadium concert film.
The 50-minute documentary concert film was first aired on the BBC on May 1, 1966. The film was aired in the United States on ABC on January 10, 1967. However, since then, the film has never been commercially released to the public.
That letter HERE.
Really cool personal letter, and while a lot of the stuff is basic knowledge to Beatles fans re: how much fun they were to work with, how musical they were and how hard they worked, I thought this observation he made about George Martin was interesting:
By the way, I could see very clearly later when we were working with the boys that they really look up to George Martin. Whenever they are recording, they do exactly what he tells them and they take his criticisms to the letter.As I wrote HERE, I'm always fascinated at how closely the Beatles worked with and admired somebody so much more "Olde England" than themselves, even after they had become outrageously successful and you would think wouldn't be interested in taking advice from anyone else.
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