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Originally Posted by sugarwood
Yea, massive studio dubbing and production meant even the Beatles did not play their own music live.
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I call BS. Sure, ultimately, there came to be plenty of studio 'magic' in their recordings. Everybody does this. It can take literally months to complete a recording. Nearly all of today's music is wildly over-produced. Later in their recording career, Beatles songs were highly produced. However.....
According to legend, Please Please Me (aka, The Second Album), and the written record, The Beatles recorded this album in one long day. Nobody......NOBODY today could do that. Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page for that album:
This performance, caught on the first take, prompted Martin to say: "I don't know how they do it. We've been recording all day but the longer we go on the better they get."[10] Mark Lewisohn later wrote: "There can scarcely have been 585 more productive minutes in the history of recorded music".[
Those guys could strap instruments on, cracking jokes and smoking pot and then, in 2.5 minutes, record a song in the studio. They were THAT good. As I mentioned above, they were one of the most experienced, polished performers of all time. Years of playing and singing 8+ hours per day.
Then they became famous.