Inspelningen av ’Revolution’ fortsätter

Enligt Barry Miles var såväl Yoko Ono som Paul McCartneys flickvän Francie Schwartz närvarande i studion. Inspelningssessionen varade mellan kl. 19.00 och kl. 01.30 på torsdagsmorgonen.
Efter att antal repetitionsinspelningar föregående kväll, började The Beatles arbeta med ordentliga inspelningar av Revolution, som skulle komma att ingå på gruppens nästa singelutgåva med Hey Jude som A-sida.

Kanske var den mer distinkta aspekten på denna inspelning två distorteradehe sologitarrer, ett ljud som man fick fram genom att plugga in instrumenten direkt in i inspelningskonsolen. Detta spelades inpå spår ett och två, under det att Ringo Starrs trumspel spelades in på spår tre.

They were overdriving two of the mic preamps on an EMI REDD desk that was being used at the time. I was a mastering engineer at the beginning of the White Album recordings, and I happened to go to Studio 3, where they were recording that track. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison were all in the control room and had their guitars plugged directly into the board, and Ringo was all on his own on the drums in the studio. Geoff Emerick came up with a very cool way to distort by going in one preamp to overload and into another preamp to distort it even more.

Ken Scott sköter skivskärmaskinen i Abbey Road-studion.

Kontrollrummet i Studio 2. I mitten finns Redd-mixerbordet.

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for Revolution

The drums were double-tracked onto the tape’s fourth track, to add further weight to the song. Three reduction mixes were then made – takes 11-13 – which put the guitars onto track one and the drums onto two. John Lennon recorded his lead vocals onto track three. Another vocal part was overdubbed onto track four, for which he sang selected words to add emphasis, and screamed in the introduction. Handclaps and a drum crack by Starr in the third bar of the song were also recorded on this fourth track.

Innan sessionen slutade kl. 01.30 på  torsdagsmorgonen skapade man ytterligare två reduktionsmixningar. De fick tagningsnumren 14 och 15 och kombinerade spår tre och fyra till spår tre på den nya bandrullen.

John Lennon tog med sig en monokopia av tagning 15 inför morgondagens överdubbningar.

The Number Ones: The Beatles' “Hey Jude”

Den svenska utgåvan av singeln ’Hey Jude/Revolution’
på ’EMI/Parlophone’ med skivnummer DP 570.

 

The Beatles – Hey Jude / Revolution – Vinyl (7", 45 RPM + 2 more), 1968 [r476951] | Discogs
Den tyska utgåvan på ’EMI/Odeon’ med skivnummer 0 23 880.