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Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on Abbey Road

A track-by-track walkthrough

Joe Bosso, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 3:25 pm UTC

"You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again. One take was all we needed. The musical telepathy between them was mind-boggling."

Her Majesty

"Putting that on the album was a complete error. Paul had done a little demo of that, and [assistant engineer] John Kurlander ended up splicing it onto the end of the abum's reel by accident.

"It was never supposed to go on at all. But after the acetates were made, Paul heard it and liked it, so it stayed. Quite an odd way to end a record of this nature, but as always, The Beatles made strange things work."

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