Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Does get a little technical at times, but the story of the music and artistes takes the reader on quite a journey.

Whilst it took me nearly a month to get through anyway - mainly because I don't get the time to devote to my reading - it was not because I did not want to read it, but because I was always busy with something else.During the Live Aid concert of 1985 I was sworn at by Bob Geldof in front of what was then the world's largest TV audience, an incident which has now turned up in Britain's favourite film. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry. Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, since the well-told anecdotes and memorable character sketches are what make it a page-turner. Those who passed through our doors include the unstoppable ‘Barbie’ up for Best Picture and Best Original Song with ‘I’m Just Ken’, the inspiring ‘Society Of The Snow’ up for Best International Feature Film and the mind-blowing ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ up for Best Animated . Of course, I especially liked reading about The Beatles and how they recorded at the studios, and as I read, I found myself yearning to visit the studios.

For anyone, like myself, who has been endlessly fascinated by the great studio, this is probably its best ‘biography’ out there. They wanted her to come in on Saturday, but she couldn’t because she was going to see Chuck Berry in Hammersmith. What is it that really happens behind the doors of the most celebrated recording studio in the world?You also find that you get a potted history of recorded music itself - the progress of which was swift during the 20th century and revolutionized the way we listened to and purchased music, as well as the singers, musicians and studio technicians who made it all possible. For me, the main and most interesting point to taker from the narrative is that the music that we have listened to and loved was the product of a combination of the artists themselves who supplied the vision of what they wanted to achieve, and the technicians and producers, without whom the sounds that we hear could not have been made reality. Opened by EMI in 1931, its initial showpiece was Studio One, designed to accommodate symphony orchestras. I enjoyed it because I have lived through the many changes in how music is recorded and listened to.