Wednesday, August 05, 2015

49 Years Ago Today

One of the most ground-breaking, amazing albums ever was released.
The group encouraged us to break the rules. [...] It was implanted when we started 'Revolver' that every instrument should sound unlike itself: a piano shouldn't sound like a piano, a guitar shouldn't sound like a guitar. There were lots of things I wanted to try, we were listening to American records and they sounded so different, the engineers [at Abbey Road] had been using the same [methods] for years and years.
—Geoff Emerick, The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook The World, Mojo , 2004

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