![]() ![]() “It’s a miracle they got beyond that and made one more album, ‘Abbey Road.’”Įvidently Parsons was taking thorough notes while working in the studio with such masters as The Beatles and Pink Floyd (he was an engineer on the mega-smash “Dark Side of the Moon”). “There was a bit of tension in the air in the studio (during the ‘Let It Be’ sessions),” Parsons said. Parsons was also on hand in Abbey Road Studio when The Beatles recorded its final album, “Abbey Road,” not long after the famed Rooftop Concert. I think the ‘Get Back’ on the album ‘Let It Be’ came from that concert.” “Everybody thought they were crazy for doing it, but it paid off. And I was being paid for it,” Parsons, 65, said during from a phone conversation from his home in California earlier this month. “It was a great day, an unforgettable day. Parsons, who was in his 20s at the time, pulled cable and set up microphones before the show started around the lunch hour of Jan. ![]() The most famous music group on the planet was bickering and grumpy while shooting the documentary “Let It Be,” so the fading Fab Four decided to lighten up the mood by performing an impromptu concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps Ltd., 3 Savile Row in the heart of the city. During Alan Parsons’ first week on the job as an assistant in Abbey Road Studios, he was dispatched to London’s business district to help out a little band called The Beatles. ![]()
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