The Intro Says It All ...

andy-hughes | 15:28 Mon 29th Dec 2014 | Music

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The slight echo on Paul's voice, and the sheer excitement of that shouted 'Four!' advises you of the following -

you are about to hear a three-minute template for the thrill of the musical revolution that is going to change your world for ever, complete with a jumping bass line (decades ahead of its time) and the euphoria of John and Paul whooping into George's solo, and Ringo's ringing fill bringing them all out again, before that final clanging chord that demands that you play it all over again.

It is rock and roll perfection, and I would die happy if I had written just that, and nothing else.

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The Builder

When you think of all that's been recorded in the last fifty years, Andy, it still holds up well doesn't it?

All done on 4-track recording I think. Makes you wonder what it would sound like if those guys walked into a modern studio to record this.

andy-hughes

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Builder - I like to think they would look at the sixty-four track digital desk and say - we can do this with the four on the end lads, this is visceral four-to-the-floor rock and roll, it doesn't need poncing up, it's just fine as it is!

woofgang

Did you know (I expect you did) that they used to get more than four tracks on the later recordings by using four tracks, then bouncing them all down to one track and laying down more tracks and so on ad lib. I remember Paul being interviewed and saying that's what they had done.

andy-hughes

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Indeed woofgang.

The Beatles were delighted to embrace anything the studio could offer them, once they were freed from the shackles of touring, because this gave them unlimited freedom to experiment, knowing that they would not have to reproduce their material on stage, so they could go as far out as they wanted - and indeed they did.