"the beatles definitely had an eternal curiosity for doing something different", says George Martin, producer of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Certainly this album was entirely different to anything which had gone before, although it has been much imitated since, it remains today a unique, epochal record, one which revolutionized the entire recording industry and caused such vast repercussions that its influence will very probably be left for as long as music is written and performed.
The Beatles' musical ideas progressed in a most tangible way with each album they recorded.
Geoff Emerick, the recording engineering who with George Martin formed the imaginative team which translated the Beatles' requirements onto tape, once totted up the number of hours put into the making of Sgt. Pepper and came up with 700.
Emerick says, "the beatles insisted that everything on sgt. Pepper had to be different. Everything was either distorted, limited, heavily compressed or treated with excessive equalisation. We had microphones right down in the bells of the brass instruments and headphones turned into microphones attached to violins. We plastered vast amounts of echo onto vocals, and sent them through the circuitry of the revolving Leslie speaker inside a Hammond organ. We used giant primitive osciallators to vary the speed of instrument and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way around......"
Last i say Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band must be nothing less than the most important and revealing compact disc release there can ever be.
The Beatles' musical ideas progressed in a most tangible way with each album they recorded.
Geoff Emerick, the recording engineering who with George Martin formed the imaginative team which translated the Beatles' requirements onto tape, once totted up the number of hours put into the making of Sgt. Pepper and came up with 700.
Emerick says, "the beatles insisted that everything on sgt. Pepper had to be different. Everything was either distorted, limited, heavily compressed or treated with excessive equalisation. We had microphones right down in the bells of the brass instruments and headphones turned into microphones attached to violins. We plastered vast amounts of echo onto vocals, and sent them through the circuitry of the revolving Leslie speaker inside a Hammond organ. We used giant primitive osciallators to vary the speed of instrument and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way around......"
Last i say Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band must be nothing less than the most important and revealing compact disc release there can ever be.
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