Talk:List of people who performed on Beatles recordings

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that more than 200 performers appeared on recordings by The Beatles, playing instruments such as an alarm clock and a heap of gravel?

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Pictures[edit]

Since the Beatles recordings were in the 1960s, shouldn't the pictures also be from the 1960s? GoingBatty (talk) 01:48, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A readme...[edit]

This page uses a standard format to ensure consistency and adherence to the Manual of Style. This information is provided as a guide to help add new information to the article without causing problems to the markup.

Listing format

If anyone unearths any further musicians to add to the list, this is the current format in use in this article:

*Frederick Alexander—cellist; session musician. Contributed cello to "[[Martha My Dear]]"<ref name="Lewisohn 1988 159">{{harvtxt|Lewisohn|1988|p=159}}</ref>

This renders:

Frederick Alexander—cellist; session musician. Contributed cello to "Martha My Dear"^[1]

Please observe consistency with punctuation, spelling, spacings etc.

Links

Per MOS:OVERLINK, avoid linking subjects with which the reader may well be familiar. For instance, "cellist" probably doesn't need a link, whereas "swarmandal player" probably does. The term "session musician", used throughout the article, is linked in the introduction. It would be pertinent to link all song titles, per MOS:REPEATLINK, as this is a list of items and not linear prose.

Citations

Although both Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head—both authoritative and reliable sources—have been scoured for content for this article, please look to use these sources for expansion (and re-use the references in the article). As with all referencing on Wikipedia, the burden of proof lies with the editor adding content, so please only add content to the article that is accompanied by a reliable source.

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Forenames[edit]

A number of the session musicians used on the recordings have abbreviated names. These should be, where possible, expanded to the full forename. The current names needing work are:

D. Bradley, violin (Desmond? [1])
J. Fraser, vocals
D. Griffiths, vocals
G. Mallen, vocals
T. Moore, trombone
J. Power, trombone
J. Smith, vocals

I would have thought S. R. Kenkare follows Indian name#Tamil names, rather than needing expansion. MIDI (talk) 14:36, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lomax on "Dear Prudence"[edit]

It seems like Jackie Lomax sang a backing vocal on "Dear Prudence". Need a decent source for this (I don't have access to Lewisohn or Macdonald at the moment to check...). MIDI (talk) 11:10, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Making list a table[edit]

It has been suggested that this list could be a table. Does anyone have any thoughts of how to implement this? The primary information in this list is performer name, so we'd have a sortable performer column. We then wouldn't be able to sort by song title or instrument, as many individual performers appeared on multiple recordings playing different instruments. This is where it seems to fall apart for me; we'd just be stuffing the current info into a cell which has no benefit (other than by sorting performer name, and given this is currently an alphebetised list we aren't really that far away from that anyway)... MIDI (talk) 09:10, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Example table at List of people who performed on Beatles recordings/Table. MIDI (talk) 09:21, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how it would get formatted for Wikipedia, but here's something I put together in spreadsheet format in Google Docs. --luckymustard (talk) 16:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]