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The Day the Beatles Recorded ‘Helter Skelter’

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September 10, 2023
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Recording engineer Chris Thomas received a note on Sept. 9, 1968 from producer George Martin saying: “Chris, hope you had a nice holiday. I’m off on mine now. Make yourself available to the Beatles.”

Paul McCartney was the first one to enter Abbey Road studios, “and he said, ‘What are you doing here?'” Thomas recalls in the book The Beatles: Recording Sessions. After the young engineer explained the situation, McCartney responded: “Well, if you wanna produce us, you can produce us. If you don’t, we might just tell you to fuck off.”

How Long Did It Take the Beatles to Record ‘Helter Skelter’?

The session proceeded without problems as the Beatles worked on their rawest blast of primal rock ‘n’ roll, “Helter Skelter.” An earlier take of the song had been attempted in mid-July. That version clocked in at a whopping 27 minutes. But the group decided to attempt a new version that would pare things down to a more manageable length.

READ MORE: When the Beatles Taped a 27-Minute Version of ‘Helter Skelter’

The Sept. 9 session ran from 7PM until 2:30 the next morning, with take 21 being the magic number. And then it came time to mix the song. There are distinct differences between the mono and stereo mixes of “Helter Skelter” that Beatles obsessives still debate all these years later. (The mono mix, available only on British pressings of the album, wasn’t released in the U.S. until 2009.)

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The Who Helped Inspire ‘Helter Skelter’

McCartney later said that he was inspired by an interview he read with Pete Townshend, who called his newest song for the Who the loudest and most raw thing the band had ever done. McCartney ended up silencing critics who saw him as being too soft: “Helter Skelter” was the Beatles at their heaviest and most raucous – especially at the end of the song, when everything almost falls apart. In the coming years, the track would serve as inspiration to both heavy metal and punk artists feeding on aggression.

READ MORE: The 10 Heaviest Beatles Songs

The session itself was relatively loose. John Lennon played bass, George Harrison played rhythm guitar, Ringo Starr, naturally, was on drums and McCartney handled vocals and guitar. (And that’s Starr who’s famously captured on tape at the end of the song screaming “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!”)

“While Paul was doing his vocal, George had set fire to an ashtray and was running around the studio with it above his head, doing an Arthur Brown,” recalled Thomas. “All in all, a pretty undisciplined session you could say.”

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