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Producing The Beatles

by Jason Kruppa

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017 Tomorrow Never Knows

November 10, 2025 · 42 min

We kick off Season 2 with one of the Beatles’ most revolutionary recordings, “Tomorrow Never Knows,” the closing track on Revolver but the first song recorded for the album. It would be both a creative and technical breakthrough, but…
016 Now and Then

January 14, 2024 · 32 min

Beatle author Ken Womack and Ranking the Beatles host Jonathan Pretus join me to discuss the tech that made the Beatles’ new single “Now and Then” possible. And from John's haunting vocal to Giles Martin's stirring string arrangement, we…
015a A closer look at the "Live and Let Die" Orchestration

January 14, 2024 · 5 min

A little extra mini-episode examining George Martin’s orchestration for “Live and Let Die,” with a recreation of part of the arrangement.
015 Paul McCartney and Wings, "Live and Let Die"

January 14, 2024 · 29 min

In our penultimate Season 1 bonus episode, we examine another solo recording, this time Paul McCartney’s thrilling theme song for the 1973 James Bond film, Live and Let Die. I’m joined by Allan Kozinn, co-author of The McCartney Legacy…
014 George Harrison, "Isn't It A Pity"

December 20, 2022 · 24 min

In the second episode looking at the making of All Things Must Pass, we explore the recording of the largest production on the album. We hear from participants at the sessions, listen to outtakes and isolations, peek into Mal Evans’…

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013 George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord"

April 25, 2022 · 38 min

Today, the first of two episodes exploring the production of George Harrison’s first solo album, All Things Must Pass, with new research and interviews drawn from the book Ken Womack and I wrote on the making of the album. In this episode…
012 John Lennon, "Love" (S1 bonus episode)

February 22, 2021 · 22 min

In the first bonus episode for Season 1, we step outside of our regular format and take a peek into solo Beatles territory, with a look at the recording of John Lennon’s song “Love” from his first post-Beatles solo album, John…
011 Nothing Is Real: Strawberry Fields Forever, take 26

April 13, 2020 · 27 min

Recording Strawberry Fields Forever was a complicated, layered process, famously requiring the cutting together of two different takes in two different keys and tempos. Today we put our magnifying glass on the second of those takes, take…
010 It's Gonna Be Alright: Revolution — Part II (single version)

September 9, 2019 · 24 min

In examining the making of the third version of Revolution (after Revolution 1 and Revolution 9), we talk to musician and composer Casey McAllister to consider the origins of the recording’s intro; author and producer Jerry Hammack fills…
009 It's Gonna Be Alright: Revolution - Part I (Revolution 1 & 9)

July 22, 2019 · 36 min

Sparked by the air of social upheaval in 1968, John's song "Revolution" spawned three very different recordings: Revolution 1, Revolution 9, and Revolution (the single version). Today, in the first of a two part episode, we look at how…
008 Producing an "Unproduced" Album - Get Back/Let It Be

March 11, 2019 · 34 min

With Apple’s announcement that Peter Jackson will be reworking the Let It Be footage, we go back to the actual sessions to examine this period from George Martin’s perspective. Martin and The Beatles advanced the use of the recording…
007 Changing Speeds - The 'Varispeed' Technique

December 31, 2018 · 20 min

Building off George Martin’s half-speed, wind up piano technique, The Beatles and their producer used varispeed — variable speed recording — to alter the sound of instruments, vocals, and even entire rhythm tracks of songs. These…