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Clean up

This page is a terrible mess ! Somenone has to clean it. It mixes outtakes, live tapes (Woolton fete) as well as demos. Aldejerph (talk) 15:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About Get Back Sessions

It says before the section on The Get Back Sessions that cover songs are not listed. Why not? They should be included even though they were not serious rehearsals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.141.185.246 (talk) 22:51, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I don't know why someone wrote that. There are some in there anyway, although they could have been added after the above comment was written. I've removed the sentence saying there are no covers listed and some covers will be added in eventually. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 05:57, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Name

I moved the page from The Beatles outtakes to The Beatles' outtakes based on the fact that it is possessive (the outtakes belong to the Beatles). I then changed my mind and moved it back again as it should not be possessive. The Beatles outtakes is the same as John Lennon outtakes, not John Lennon's outtakes. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 05:59, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Major revision

I have moved the page to The Beatles' recording sessions so the page can be about all The Beatles' takes, not just the unreleased ones. I have started a major revision of the article and, currently, I have almost finished the Please Please Me album sessions. I'm getting my information from The Beatles Bible website, which got its info from reliable sources – it's quicker than reading the books themselves. If anyone can help make this happen quicker, please do. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 04:24, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Missing outtake

There is a song called "I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down", that was recorded during the "Hey Jude" Sessions. This song is mentioned nowhere. It should be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowconeboy789 (talk • contribs) 18:56, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Then add it, with a reference of course. Quite a lot of this article is not referenced but it should be. I'll get 'round to it eventually... McLerristarr | Mclay1 03:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

July-October 1968 Trident Studios sessions

Please add the July-October 1968 recording sessions at Trident Studios: Hey Jude (31 July-2 August), Dear Prudence (28–30 August 1968), Honey Pie (1 October 1968), Savoy Truffle (3 October 1968), and Martha My Dear (4 October 1968). All sources are in the respective song articles (and if not, the source is [1]). The lads had temporarily moved their recording sessions to Trident because they'd heard of its 8-track machine, before returning to Abbey Road when they learned that EMI had been hiding an unused 8-track machine from them that was stored at Abbey Road. These Trident Studios sessions are also notable as documentary movie footage directed by Tony Bramwell of the Hey Jude sessions was used to illustrate the White Album sessions in the Anthology documentary and also partly used in the special Anthology mix of the Lady Madonna promoclip. --93.232.130.11 (talk) 18:52, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, did some more research on the White Album sessions by going to each song's own article. As mentioned above, the above 5 songs should receive their own sub-heading for the July-October 1968 Trident Studios sessions.

The time of August-September seems to have been a time when the Fabs alternated between Trident and Abbey Road, to at the latter record:

Yer Blues (13 August 1968), Wild Honey Pie (20 August 1968), the final two sessions of Sexy Sadie (13 and 21 August 1968), Back in the U.S.S.R. (22–23 August 1968), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (5 September 1968), Helter Skelter (song) (9 September 1968), Piggies (19 September 1968), and Happiness Is a Warm Gun (24–26 September 1968).

White Album songs recorded at Abbey Road before the Trident stint (in chronological order):

Revolution 1 and Revolution 9 (30 May – 21 June 1968), Blackbird (song) (11 June 1968), Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (27 June & 1 July 1968), Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (3 July 1968), Cry Baby Cry (16 July 1968), and the first two sessions of Sexy Sadie (19 and 24 July 1968).

White Album songs recorded at Abbey Road after the Trident stint (in chronological order):

Long, Long, Long (7 October 1968), The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill and I'm So Tired (both 8 October 1968), and Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (9–10 October 1968),

Their respective articles are not clear on where the songs Don't Pass Me By (5 June 1968, most likely still at Abbey Road), Good Night (song) (28 June 1968, most likely still at Abbey Road), Mother Nature's Son (9 & 20 August 1968), Rocky Raccoon (15 August 1968), Glass Onion (11 September 1968), I Will (16 September 1968), Birthday (Beatles song) (18 September 1968), and Julia (Beatles song) (13 October 1968) were recorded.

My suggestion would be to create a colored table for the White Album sessions, akin to the one at Leader of the Labour Party (UK)#List of Leaders of the Labour Party, where sessions at Abbey Road would be colored red (for the traditional red EMI logo), and sessions at Trident Studios would be colored either yellow or blue. --93.232.130.11 (talk) 18:52, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Destroyed???

How can the early recordings That'll Be the Day and In Spite of All the Danger be destroyed if they were released on Anthology 1? That doesn't make sense. If the masters were somehow destroyed after, then this needs to be explained in a footnote or something. 68.146.70.124 (talk) 01:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

According to John Lowe this was a direct to disc recording so there was no tape to be destroyed. Anthology was mastered from the record, which Paul McCartney purchased from Lowe in 1981. Piriczki (talk) 13:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]