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The Beatles<\/a> have played their tunes in bizarre places, on rooftops in front of thousands of fans, in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and in seedy underground clubs in Hamburg, but how about a broom closet?<\/p>\n OK, you got me, that might be a slight exaggeration, but their method for recording the track \u2018Yer Blues\u2019 included getting as up-close and personal as possible, and the story has trickled down from Ken Scott, legendary British record producer and engineer, who started his career at Abbey Road Studios at the age of 16. The \u2018Yer Blues\u2019 incident would turn out to be one of the most bizarre days he experienced at the office.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were doing one of George [Harrison\u2019s] vocals on a track called \u2018Not Guilty\u2019, which finished up not being used for The White Album,\u201d Scott told American YouTuber Rick Beato<\/a>. He went on, smiling, \u201cAnd George was having difficulty getting the feel that he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n Reminiscing, Scott added, \u201cAt one point, we were trying him in between the two speakers, the two monitors, in the control room. I\u2019m standing at the back there with John [Lennon] by my side. I just turned to him and said, \u2018Jeez, the way you guys are going, you\u2019re going to want to record in there next!’\u201d In the memory, Scott gestured towards a small room, \u201cbigger than a broom cupboard, but tiny.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then a couple of days later, [John] comes in, and he says, \u2018We\u2019re going to record a new song, it\u2019s called \u2018Yer Blues\u2019, and we\u2019re going to do it in there,’\u201d Scott laughed. Sure enough, cool as ever, Lennon gestured towards the stuffy annex room, the very same Scott had joked about only a few days prior.<\/p>\n You can quite imagine how tight the set up was, but if your neurons aren\u2019t firing fast enough, Scott ticked off the equipment on his fingers to explain how much of a squeeze The Beatles purposefully put themselves into: \u201cYou had the whole band: the drum kit, bass and amp, two guitar amps, and a live vocal, all in this small room. You couldn\u2019t pull up the kick drum without getting John\u2019s guitar up. But, for me, it\u2019s one of the best drum sounds I\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n