studio adjacent to where the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper. It was on this date that two bands met for the first time.
Norman Smith, who worked as a Beatles studio engineer up until 1965, was producing Pink Floyd’s ‘Piper at The Gates of Dawn’ album. The band members knew about this connection and asked their producer to see if they could pop into Studio Two to watch the Beatles work.
“We were ushered into Studio Two where the Fab Four were busy recording ‘Lovely Rita,’” said Floyd drummer Nick Mason.
“The music sounded wonderful, and incredibly professional. We sat humbly and humbled, at the back of the control room while they worked on the mix. They were God-like figures to us.”
“They all seemed extremely nice, but they were in a strata so far beyond us that they were out of our league.”
“I learned from John Lennon and Paul McCartney and George Harrison that it was OK for us to write about our lives, and what we felt — and to express ourselves,” says Roger Waters.
“That we could be free artists and that there was a value in that freedom. And there was.”
