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Pepper album cost three months of work and $56,000 - which is about as much as it costs to record five albums for London’s New Philharmonia Orchestra.Īll that work paid off artistically. Partly as a result of filling that “gap,” the Sgt. Unaccustomed to ad-libbing, they had to be cajoled by John and Paul, who threaded among the musicians, urging them to play at different tempos and to please try not to stay together. The 41-piece orchestra, as it turned out, consisted mostly of members of the New Philharmonia, who had trouble following the recipe. And we just wrote it down like a cooking recipe: 24 bars on the ninth bar, the orchestra will take off, and it will go from its lowest note to its highest note.” So we said, right, what we’ll do to save all the arranging, we’ll take the whole orchestra as one instrument. And if we do have an orchestra, are we going to write them a pseudoclassical thing, which has been done better by people who know how to make it sound like that - or are we going to do it like we write songs? Take a guess and use instinct.

Says Paul: “Once we’d written the main bit of the music, we thought, now look, there’s a little gap there and we said oh, how about an orchestra? Yes, that’ll be nice. The startling crescendo in A Day in the Life illustrates their bold, erratic, but strikingly successful method. Pepper, they spent as much as 20 hours on a song, often working through the night. Here’s the magazine’s description of how the album came together: