Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked the Beatles’ cultural apex, effectively re-tuning the zeitgeist of Western society in 1967’s Summer of Love, but its predecessor – Revolver, released August 5th, 1966 – was the band’s biggest musical watershed. Never had the Beatles emerged with such a brace of high-quality songs.
Like many, Revolver is one of my favorites.
What I would give to have been a fly on the wall during those recording sessions.
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Maybe the best bBeatles album.
“It wasn’t until many years
later,” Emerick concluded, “that I realized with horror that the
microphone we were using was phantom-powered – meaning that it actually
was a live electrical object. In conjunction with the 240-volt system
used in England, any of us, including Lennon, could easily have been
electrocuted, and I would have gone down in history as the first
recording engineer to kill a client in the studio.”
Someone ought to tell him that phantom power is at most 48V (in modern systems more likely 24V).
Which might be unpleasant in the water, but is far less likely to be fatal than mains current.