Steven Martin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Barenboim has made one indisputably magnificent contribution to music...
>It was his piano that the Beatles used for the final chord in "A Day in the
>Life". The sessions for this song were recorded in the same EMI studios
>where many classics from Barbirolli and others were recorded.
His piano? You mean the same one he'd been recording on or his personally?
I find the latter hard to believe, as I'm sure Abbey Road has always been
well endowed with pianos.
Sgt Pepper, incidentally, was being recorded at the same day John
Ogdon was at AR recording the Busoni Concerto.
Deryk Barker
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