Emerick recounts how he did it in his book (coauthored with Howard Massey) Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. The alarm clockThe recording process for “A Day in the Life” began with a fortuitous accident. Paul McCartney had a song snippet that he thought might work with the theme of “A Day in the Life”. Credit: Tom Swain/WikipediaThe piano chordThe sustained piano chord that ends “A Day in the Life” presented its own set of recording problems. Pepper's' Was A Perfect Storm Of Musical And Recording Creativity" here on Forbes along with Emerick’s Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles which covers his entire career with the fab four.

Source: Forbes June 03, 2017 18:22 UTC