Abbey Road Studios
Recently, the busy folks at Google made available an online tour of the famed Abbey Road Studios. Anyone with internet access can go online and see inside the place where some of the most famous recordings were made. The building at 3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, City of Westminster, London was originally a townhouse. It was already 100 years old when it was converted into a recording studio by the Gramophone company in 1931. The list of artists who have recorded at Abbey Road Studios is extremely long, but by far the most famous group to work there is the Beatles.
Tour Abbey Road Studios on Google.
There is hardly a hearing person on the planet that needs any introduction to the Beatles. If there were such a person, I can assure you that there are many more qualified than me to make such an introduction…
the Beatles, it was the Quarrymen – one the very first times I ever played with John, we did a very early gig at a thing called a Co-Op Hall, and I had a lead solo in one of the songs and I totally froze when my moment came. I really played the crappiest solo ever. I said, “That’s it. I’m never going to play lead guitar again.” It was just too nerve-wracking onstage. So for years, I just became rhythm guitar and bass player and played a bit of piano, do a bit of this, that and the other. But nowadays, I play lead guitar, and that’s the thing that draws me forward. I enjoy it. So, yeah, that means the answer to “Are you going to retire?” is “When I feel like it.” But that’s not today.
melodies come from. He still hasn’t figured out how he wrote “Yesterday” in his sleep. “I don’t like to use the word ‘magic,’ unless you spell it with a ‘k’ on the end, because it sounds a bit corny. But when your biggest song – which 3,000 people and counting have recorded – was something that you dreamt, it’s very hard to resist the thought that there’s something otherworldly there.”
