McCartney Times

Alan Parsons was an 18-year-old dropout who’d landed a job in the tape duplication department at EMI Records when he heard the master tape of the Beatles’ just-completed 1967 album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

It was a formative experience that made him realize how badly he needed to talk his way into a job at the EMI Recording Studios on Abbey Road.

“I think it made millions of light bulbs go off around the world, frankly,” he says. “It was clearly a masterpiece of a record. And what was encouraging to me.”

The thing that made his light bulb going off so different than those others is that not quite two years later he was running tape on the Beatles for an album with the working title “Get Back.”

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