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

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ITV presenter reveals his wife, 30, has been diagnosed with rare and incurable brain cancer just months after she gave birth to their first child Her last performance at Abbey Road came in 1971. Du Pre was often overcome with an inexplicable feeling of tiredness and couldn’t play. But that day she was in magnificent form, recording Chopin and Beethoven. Suddenly she stopped, exhausted again. ‘That’s all for today,’ she said, snapping her cello case shut. She was 26, and never in a recording studio again. She died at 42, a victim of the multiple sclerosis which had been haunting her for years. Travis Kelce 'looks old' and is 'wobbling' for the Chiefs - but it has NOTHING to do with Taylor Swift, says ex-NFL scout John Middlekauff DAACI is a ground-breaking patented ‘meta-composition’ tool. Its founders have created a system based on PhD research with the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Queen Mary University of London, designed to convincingly pass a Turing Test for music creation. I'm A Celebrity's Jamie Lynn Spears breaks down in tears AGAIN over a small square of chocolate as she moans 'I just want more!'

Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci's daughter Deva, 19, reveals how her parents helped her modelling career as she stars on the cover of V MagazineWhen the record first came out there were just three channels of television but there was a record shop on every street. It was the same year as Led Zeppelin II, In the Court of the Crimson King and the second album by the Band. Abbey Road went straight to number one and remained there for months. I have no memory of this fact being on the news. 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. What really made her name was her recording of Elgar’s haunting Cello Concerto at Abbey Road. After the recording for EMI, the London Symphony Orchestra burst into applause, not an honour musicians have ever extended to most soloists. Another classical pianist, Artur Schnabel, fretted that records meant performances might be listened to by the wrong sort of people. ‘He was further concerned that he would not know how those people might be dressed…’

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But what they really were was great record-makers. The classic case of this is when they go in there to record She Loves You.’ Nicola Roberts cuts an elegant figure in plunging forest green midi dress as she attends the Wonka premiere Ah, he says, ask Spotify. Does this thing at the end of the year where it tells you the tune you’ve listened to most. In the wake of the desire to install the Beatles securely in the pantheon of so-called serious artists has come a tendency to place too much emphasis on their songwriting and not enough emphasis on the way they performed songs, even when those songs were written by other people. “Twist And Shout” is the key example of this. By the time they had finished with it, it was their song. It was the perfect vehicle for them to put over their special sauce, which was what happened when they sank their individuality into the group. Once you had heard them do these American songs you no longer had much time for the so-called originals. This was no longer a group trying to sound like anyone else. This was a group who wanted to sound like themselves. That was what shone right through “Twist And Shout.” As Ian MacDonald was to say of the record in his book Revolution in the Head, “nothing of this intensity had ever been recorded in a British pop studio.”

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Foruten musikken, får vi også skildringer av den teknologiske utviklingen. Om utfasingen av 78-platene, om båndbredde, om digitaliseringen og om nedlasting. Vi får skildringer av hvordan studioet skjøttet forretningene og orienterte seg mot profitthensyn. Pop Idol's Michelle McManus says going sober made her feel 'more empowered' after using booze as form of 'escapism' Great British Bake Off confirm fan favourite has left the Channel 4 show ahead of the final as viewers call for them to be made a 'fifth host'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. Suffering sleepless nights? Tossing and turning? Find your slumber solutions with MyPillow, the most comfortable pillow you'll ever own... GUARANTEED!