Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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One mark deducted for claiming the demo of Pink Floyd’s Money was created in David Gilmour’s garden shed – I don’t think Roger Waters would be too pleased to read that, given the shed in question resided at the bottom of his garden at 187 New North Road, Islington! Everybody who had even the most glancing acquaintance with them and their deeds during this time has their anecdotes, small chapters in the greater creation myth with which they understandably do not wish to tamper. Memoirs have been written, often many decades after the events, which do not always square with other memoirs. In each case there is a tendency to place the author at the centre of the most momentous events, a tendency which is entirely understandable. In other cases entire episodes have been recalled which others who were there do not remember at all. Everyone has their anecdote, the culmination of which is the blob of solder they applied, the edit they made, the suggestion they put forward which played some part in nudging in this direction or that a piece of music with which we are all familiar, deep in our bones.

It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged - nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself. David Hepworth will be speaking about the history of Abbey Road recording studio as part of Chipping Campden Literature Festival on May 26 at Cidermill Theatre: campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature Girls' night out! Queen Máxima of the Netherlands stuns in a sensational shimmering gown as she steps out solo in Paris with Brigitte Macron And Norman Smith [again: see above], who’s the engineer, looks at the lyrics lying around and thinks, ‘They’ve blown it this time; they’ve gone too far this time. There’s nothing there at all. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.’ It takes rules-based composition, and assistive composition in general, to a new level with emotional intelligence and an ability to understand and reflect narrative details and contextual connotations in the music it creates.Kylie Jenner shows off her incredible figure in a tiny bikini before modelling a bra and sheer skirt as she poses for sizzling photoshoot It’s funny, I say to David: some things are like reverse alchemy; the more you see the base ingredients, the less you see the gold. Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop. London: Bantam, 2018. ISBN 978-1-7841-6407-2

A couple of days later I went to see Mark Lewisohn – the man who is to the Beatles what Robert Caro is to Lyndon Johnson – previewing his two-hour presentation about Abbey Road. Emerging afterwards the members of this select audience, which included Richard Williams, Mark Ellen and others who have spent inordinate amounts of time thinking about the Beatles, could be heard muttering “I never knew that” to each other. The following day a friend went to photograph the house which was formerly the home of the real “Mean Mr Mustard”. There’s always something you didn’t know about the Beatles. Alan Carr, 47, cosies up to his hairdresser boyfriend Callum Heslop, 27, as they head out to grab a coffee in Santa Monica

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And looking at the history of Abbey Road – the history of recorded performance – it wasn’t just the public who started out confused. Early attempts at this new-found technique provoked bafflement, sometimes downright hostility, from performers, too. Emma Calvé, the great French soprano, was horrified on arrival at her first recording studio in 1902, refusing to alight from her carriage and four because the place looked more like a thieves’ den than a venue for an artiste of her standing. Only 100 guineas could change her mind. Once inside, she had to be ‘discouraged from breaking into dancing while singing as she did on stage’.

And – as David Hepworth himself snuffles – a vignette featuring the cold virus: John Lennon’s rendition of Twist And Shout on Please Please Me – which sounds (as David wonderfully describes it) ‘like it was the last he would ever sing’ – achieved thanks to Lennon having flu. (Listen intently and you can hear him coughing at the end.) Ella Morgan narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction as she stumbles while leaving Beauty Awards after reuniting with her MAFS UK co-starsOmid Scobie insists Harry and Meghan didn't brief him for book - but admits there are 'plenty of people around them' who DID' He told me, “You don’t speak to them directly. You speak to the arranger, who speaks to the conductor, who speaks to the musicians.” And so, the ways of doing classical music are pretty much as they were.’ Kelly Clarkson, 41, shows off her weight loss in a green-and-white dress as she interviews Mark Harmon who teases a Freaky Friday sequel

Sophie Habboo puts on a leggy display in pink corset-style top as she joins dapper husband Jamie Laing at the Wonka premiere Prince William is accused of silencing Princess Diana by stopping the BBC re-broadcasting her Panorama interview, says Omid ScobieAs Hepworth points out, the studio was making history in nearly the same instant in which the facility first opened its doors. In the early 1930s, English composer Edward Elgar conducted the historic recording sessions at EMI Studios for "Pomp and Circumstance," the series of five marches that would immortalize his name — the march entitled "The Land of Hope and Glory" emerged as a British sporting anthem, while "The Light of Life" became the signature melody for American graduation ceremonies. Kate Middleton proves Omid Scobie's cruel Stepford Wife jibes are far from the truth - from abseiling cliffs in Wales to confident speeches Tommy Fury fails to mention fiancée Molly-Mae Hague as he pays tribute to their daughter Bambi on return to the UK after partying in Abu Dhabi Music is at the heart of XONE’s roadmap. They are currently developing a set of gaming and social features to create hangouts, avatar integrations, and large-scale music experiences.