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Strawberry Fields Forever
(Lennon/McCartney)
Thursday 24 November 1966, 7.00pm-2.30am.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Recording	TK-1	backing track only	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-1	SI lead vocal	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-1	SI lead vocal	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-1	SI backing vocals	4T	E62274	Anthology 2
Monday 28 November 1966, 7.00pm-1.30am.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Recording	TK-2 bd	REMAKE: backing track only	4T	E62274	[Sessionography Four]
	Recording	TK-3 fs	backing track only	4T	E62274	[Sessionography Four]
	Recording	TK-4	backing track only	4T	E62274	[Sergeant Pepper Deluxe]
	Recording	TK-4	SI lead vocal	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-4	SI slide guitar, bass	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-4	SI guitar	4T	E62274	[Sessionography Four]
	Mono mixing	RM1	< TK-4	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM2	< TK-4	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM3	< TK-4	Δ	E62495
Tuesday 29 November 1966, 2.30-8.00pm.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Recording	TK-5 fs	REMAKE: backing track only	4T	E62274	[Sessionography Four]
	Recording	TK-6	backing track only	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-6	SI lead vocal	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-6	SI Mellotron	4T	E62274
	Recording	TK-6	SI bass	4T	E62274	[Sessionography Four]
	Reduction mix	TK-7		4T	E62274
	Reduction mix	TK-7	SI lead vocal	4T	E62274	[Sessionography Four]
	Mono mixing	RM1	< TK-7	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM2	< TK-7	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM3 ✔	< TK-7	Δ	E62495	[Sessionography Four]
Thursday 8 December 1966, 7.00pm-3.40am.
Studio Two
Producer: Dave Harries/George Martin.     Engineers: Dave Harries/Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Recording	TK-9	REMAKE: percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-10	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-11	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-12 fs	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-13	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-14 fs	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-15 ✔	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-16	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-17	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-18 fs	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-20	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-21	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-22	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-23 fs	percussion only	4T	E62581
	Recording	TK-24 ✔	percussion only	4T	E62581
Friday 9 December 1966, 2.30-10.00pm.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Editing	TK-15 + TK-24		4T	E62581
	Reduction mix	TK-25	< TK-15 + TK-24	4T	E62582
	Recording	TK-25	SI percussion	4T	E62582
	Recording	TK-25	SI Mellotron	4T	E62582
	Recording	TK-25	SI guitar	4T	E62582
	Recording	TK-25	SI swarmandal	4T	E62582
	Mono mixing	RM4	< TK-25	Δ	E62495
Thursday 15 December 1966, 2.30-12.00pm.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Recording	TK-25	SI trumpets	4T	E62582
	Recording	TK-25	SI cellos	4T	E62582	[Sessionography Four]
	Reduction mix	TK-26	< TK-25	4T	E62553
	Recording	TK-26	SI vocal, snare, swarmandal	4T	E62553
	Recording	TK-26	SI vocal	4T	E62553	[Sessionography Four]
	Mono mixing	RM5	< TK-26	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM6	< TK-26	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM7	< TK-26	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM8	< TK-26	Δ	E62495
	Mono mixing	RM9 ✔	< TK-26	Δ	E62495
Wednesday 21 December 1966, 10.00-11.45pm.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Recording	TK-26	SI vocal	4T	E62553
	Recording	TK-26	SI piano	4T	E62553
Thursday 22 December 1966, 7.00-11.30pm.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Mono mixing	RM10	< TK-7	Δ	E62555
	Mono mixing	RM11	< TK-26	Δ	E62555
	Editing	RM12	< RM10+RM11	Δ	E62555	UK single
Thursday 29 December 1966, 2.30-4.45pm.
Studio Three (control room)
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Tape copying	RM13	< RM12	Δ	E62556	US Single
Thursday 29 December 1966, 4.45-5.40pm.
Studio Three (control room)
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Stereo mixing	RS1	< TK-7	Z	E62557
	Stereo mixing	RS2	< TK-26	Z	E62557
	Editing	RS3 ✔	RS1+RS2	Z	E62557	US Magical Mystery Tour
	Stereo mixing	RS4	< TK26	Z	E62557
	Editing	RS5	RS1+RS4	Z	E62557
Friday 30 December 1966, 7.00pm-3.00am.
Studio Two
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Tape copying	RM12	2 copies for Capitol	Δ	E62821*
Monday 2 January 1967, 2.30-4.00pm.
Studio Two (control room)
Producer: George Martin.     Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald.
	Task	Take		Channels	Reel	Release
	Tape copying	RM12	for Capitol	Δ	E62821*
Musicians
Key
Takes
	TK	Take (TK-00: unnumbered take(s))
	RM	Mono Remix
	RS	Stereo Remix
	SI	Superimposition (i.e. overdub)
	fs	False start
	bd	Breakdown
	✔	Best take
Channels
	Δ	Delta Mono
	2T	Twin-track
	Z	Stereo
	3T	Three-track
	4T	Four-track
	8T	Eight-track
Reels
	*	indicates a reel now lost
Release
Only the first official release of any take is listed
	[ ]	Take available only on bootleg, with an example cited

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