It’s where Queen – not the Queen, she lives in Buckingham Palace – Queen made their records there, the Beatles, everybody. London and we went to a studio called Trident Studios, which was a real hallmark studio. All the strings, the saxophone, the piano were added when the group came back to We went in that night and recorded the backing track at Wally Heider’s – I’ve got a photo of that, but I’ll come back to that later – and Flo and Eddie sang backups that night. You can’t get more rock & roll than this. So the rest of the band and myself, we all jammed on the song at a swimming pool in Los Angeles. In a previous incarnation they were The Turtles, who sang “Happy Together.” These are very historical recordings, you might not even be aware of them. Then the next day we went to the backing singers’ house, which is Flo and Eddie from the Frank Zappa group. Marc had written it and the drummer heard it for This song we just learned the night before in a hotel room. So we did three or four tracks in Manhattan and two tracks in Wally Heider’s. Rex acrossĪmerica and record them when I could. The current song in the charts is #1, it’s been #1 for three weeks.” We had no album in the can so I literally had to follow T. My boss back in the UK – I was in AmericaĪt the time, visiting my mother and father – said, “We need an album. No click tracks were used or computers because they weren’t invented yet. I recorded that in 1971 at the Wally Heider studio in Los Angeles.
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