Beatles engineer recalls the song that Paul McCartney liked but “didn’t go down very well with the other three”
Getting to work with The Beatles is a dream come true for any engineer, and Alan Parsons was fortunate enough to experience it firsthand. He recently shared his memories of working on the iconic Abbey Road and Let It Be albums, describing the experience as a “magical time” in his career.
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Speaking in a recent chat with Rick Beato, Parsons — who’s also known for his work on Pink Floyd’s seminal record The Dark Side of the Moon —- says of his career as an engineer: “I guess I ended up with the two most experimental bands ever — Beatles and Pink Floyd. I mean, they were all famous for their experimental sounds.”
For Parsons, working with the Fab Four was as surreal as one would imagine: “It was The Beatles — of course, it was historic,” he says. “I savoured every moment and thought, ‘This is the greatest experience I’ve ever had.’”
Asked if he interacted with the members during the course of their partnership, Parsons replies: “Not so much. Not in the Let It Be days. But the following summer, we did Abbey Road, and that was much more intimate, much more involved with the guys and myself.”
“It’s hard for me to imagine that I was there,” he adds. “Yeah, it was a magical time.”
Among his adventures with The Beatles, Parsons also shares an anecdote about a particular track on the Abbey Road album that only Paul McCartney seemed to love. Despite John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr giving it the cold shoulder, the song eventually made it onto the final album due to McCartney’s insistence.
“I kind of remember that Maxwell’s Silver Hammer didn’t go down very well with the other three,” he says. “But Paul persevered with it. I thought he did a great Moog solo on it. We actually tried a backwards delay echo on the intro, which got shelved. It didn’t work.”
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