Little sweetheart, there’s seemingly an endless parade of new Beatles-related documentaries and features - an entirely new six hour cut of unused footage from the Let It Be sessions is coming out this fall - but the most recent one is really remarkable. I watched it all last night and thought so very much of you.
It’s quite straightforward, just Paul McCartney and Rick Rubin in a room set up as a studio out in Amagansett, a mixing desk, a Fender Rhodes keyboard and a couple of guitars sitting around the periphery. Incredibly, they’d had the master tapes sent over from London - they never leave Abbey Road, so that’s something of a first - and Rubin just plays back about three dozen Beatles and early McCartney solo tracks over the studio monitors, often isolating vocal or bass or guitar parts, as they discuss the songs, how they were written and recorded and the stories that surround them. Discuss, or rather often shout over the playback because they’re listening to it all LOUDLY! As did I!
I ran the sound through our studio monitors. I think you would love this so much, little sweetheart. It’s very musician-centric and although I know it often made you nervous, I always LOVED being in the studio with you!
You still are with me here, of course, because whenever I work on something new, invariably, I bring in your own isolated vocals, first hearing them just on their own fill up the room and then as they float above the tracks joining the other instruments.
I remember, too, how one of the first things you gave me, just a week or two after we met and were beginning to fall for one another was your entire box set of The Beatles Anthology on DVD. It was so sweet and generous and your way of saying you wanted to share something special with and get to know me better.
How grateful I am to and for you. Always! With all my love, my gorgeous girl.
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