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Scott Freiman’s first record was one of the Partridge Family. An uncle quickly corrected this by lying out the ten -year copies of “Sgt. Pepper” and the “White Album” of the Beatles. Freiman has been addicted since then.
Freiman’s focus is exclusively on the music of the band
As a composer and sound engineer, Freiman has developed a number of lectures on the music of the Beatles. These include “Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper”, “Looking Through a Glass Onion” (about the “White Album”) and “Tomorrow Never Knows” (about “Revolver”). It was a life full of fanaticism in preparation. “I told a friend of the high school what I was doing and he said, ‘Oh, I always knew that you would do that,’ says Freiman.
“When someone says, ‘I have a napkin that John Lennon once used’ I am not interested,” he says. “I’m interested in the creative process.” 10 things that you might not know about the music of the Beatles:
1. Paul played lead guitar on “Ticket to Ride”
Known as a great bassist, Paul McCartney also played lead guitar for several Beatles pieces. These include “Ticket to Ride”, “Taxman”, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Good Morning Good Morning”.
2. The “Kazoos” on “Lovely Rita” were played with pocket combers and EMI toilet paper
The toilet paper was “very thin”, says Freiman, “because EMI was stingy. They once sent Evans to the toilet to get it.”
3. The bridge in “A Day in the Life” was inspired by “Hey Joe”
Paul McCartney was a big fan of Jimi Hendrix since he appeared in the UK. Hendrix ‘”Hey Joe” directly inspired the descending bridge in “A Day in the Life”. Freiman calls her a “four -time plagal cadence”.
4. The intro for “I Feel Fine” was taken over by Bobby Parker’s “Watch Your Step”
John Lennon was a fan of the R&B guitarist from Louisiana, Bobby Parker, whose hit “Watch your step” played on stage 1961 and 1962. The reef inspired “I Feel Fine”. “Led Zeppelin used the reef even more obvious, in ‘Moby Dick,” says Freiman.
5. “Her Majesty” was originally part of the “Abbey Road” medley
When the 23 -second “Her Majesty” was deleted from the Medley, page two of Abbey Road, it was hung at the end of a band. When it suddenly sounded there, the band members decided to leave it on the album as “hidden” track. “The last chord is missing because this is the first chord of ‘Polythene Pam’,” says Freiman.
6. John and George sang “Frère Jacques” in “Paperback Writer”
As part of the background vocals.
7. George played bass on “She Said Said She Said”
One of the few Beatles recordings in which Paul McCartney was not involved.
8. Paul played drums at “Back in the Ussr”
Also with “Dear Prudence”.
9. “Good Morning Good Morning” was inspired by a cornflakes advertising
With a crowing rooster.
10. The flamenco guitar intro in “Bungalow Bill” was actually a mellotron
Beatles fans speculate about which band member played the guitar at the beginning of “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”. But according to Freiman, it is simply “someone who presses a button on a Mellotron and triggers a band loop with flamenco guitar”.