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As the Beatles went to the studio to record the years 1968 White album , the group was the shadow of playful and close collaborators that they had been, according to the 2006 Memoirs of Abbey Road Studios engineer Geoff Emerick ,, Here, there and everywhere: my life recording the music of the Beatles . Emerick wrote that feelings last between the main songwriters John Lennon And Paul McCartney Finally, led to an animated meeting on one of the most popular songs of the album. The song, written by McCartney, led Lennon to start "Ranting and Roung" in the studio, according to their engineer. Read the rest to find out why the late Beatle has become "ballistic" on his group comrade.

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The first days of the Beatles had been very collaborative, but when they decided to record The white album , things had changed. Lennon and McCartney each arrived with their own set of songs to record and criticized the other's contributions. The four members, "clearly did not like to be in the company of the other More, "by Emerick, and often recorded separately with Lennon spending a large part of the time of session with the partner Yoko Ono Rather than his group comrades. His increasingly erratic behavior did not help the group to meet, according to the engineer, who wrote that "his mood swings were more serious, and they occurred more frequently".

For Emerick, the Fab Four seemed to live a lie. "The public still believed that the Beatles were a group, that John and Paul still wrote together, that the four guys from Liverpool were making a group album," he wrote in his memoirs. "Nothing, in fact, could have been further from the truth. Not only were they working separately at that time, they barely talked." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

While the space between group comrades widen, Emerick recalled "a study in frustration" after a miserable week spent working endlessly on two songs, "Revolution" by Lennon and "Ob-Di, Ob-Da "From McCartney. None of the two artists could well obtain their respective track. McCartney in particular "was after a feeling of Jamaican reggae and he was not convinced that the group had nailed him" and had problems with the timing, wrote Emerick. To worsen things, the young registration engineer wrote that Lennon "hated openly and vocally" ob-di, ob-la-Da, calling him "more of" music by Paul's grandmother [Expaletive] '""

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Tensions reached a head when McCartney announced that he wanted to delete everything that had been recorded for "Ob-Di, Ob-La-Da" and start again. Lennon could not simply bear it anymore, recalls their engineer. "John has become ballistic," wrote Emerick. "Ranting and delusional, he went to the door, with Yoko dragging near, and we thought we saw the last of him that evening." But a few hours later, Lennon returned, after spending time in what would prove to be a pivotal way.

Emerick remembered that Lennon announced that he was more stoned than he had ever been and that all his group comrades would never be. Then he revealed that he had achieved what McCartney had not been able to do alone: obtaining the rhythm of the song. "'And this," added Lennon with a rumble, "is the way in which the song [Expletive] should take place." In an unstable way, he bathed the stairs and on the piano and began to fuck the keys with all his might, beating the famous opening agreements which became the introduction of the song, played at Tempo Breakneck ", we read In the memory of Emerick.

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According to Emerick, McCartney was more than receptive, his group comrade came to the song - even if he had taken a lot of drugs to do so. "" Okay, then, John, "[McCartney] said in short, cut words, looking at his fellow from a disturbed group in the eyes." Let's do it in your own way, wrote the engineer.

While Emerick said he suspected that McCartney was flattered by attention, McCartney recalled a rather pink version (and less infused with drugs) events in Barry Miles' 1997 Biography, Paul McCartney: in many years .

"I remember being in the studio with George and Ringo, struggling with an acoustic version of the song," said the Beatle. "John was late for the session but when he arrived, he bounded, apologizing, in very good humor. He sat down at the piano and instantly played the intro of blue style. We were very satisfied with His new attitude. Trinted and turned the whole song. He and I worked hard on the song and I remember both in the studio to have a whale. "

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